American Composers Orchestra & Carolyn Kuan - Huang Ruo: An American Soldier (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:39:24 | 439 Mb
Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:39:24 | 439 Mb
Genre: Classical
The American Composers Orchestra is, as its name suggests, completely dedicated to American music. The ensemble originated in a dinner conversation at a restaurant in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies and composer Francis Thorne were discussing the upcoming anniversary of the American Composers Alliance, which had been founded in 1938 by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Wallingford Riegger, and others to promote contemporary American composers. It was one of the most important and long-lived of several modern music-oriented organizations founded in the U.S., particularly in New York, in the 1920s and 1930s.Nevertheless, as Thorne and Davies remarked in the course of their talk, it remained the case that American orchestras played relatively little American music.