The American Composers Forum New England
New Music Events Calendar Update

The fall concert season is beginning with a bang. This week we're proud to welcome the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: four days of cutting-edge concerts by several of Boston's mainstay professional new-music ensembles, including the world premieres of our 2008 Festival Commissions - new works by composers Julie Rohwein, Dalit Warshaw, and Andy Vores, commissioned by the American Composers Forum New England with funding from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund and the Thomas R McMullin and Ruth R McMullin Fund.

Here's what's coming up. For complete details, and to learn of new events as they are posted, please visit the New Music Calendar. It is now FREE to list events in our calendar, and you can enter your information yourself and see it appear on our site immediately. So concert presenters, musicians, composers, new-music fans -- please let us know about your upcoming events by posting them here.

Wednesday, September 17
Guerilla Opera - Rudolph Rohan's "We are Sons"

Thursday, September 18
Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: Firebird Ensemble
Ditson Festival: Boston Musica Viva - ACFNE-commissioned premiere by Julie Rohwein

Friday, September 19
Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: Dinosaur Annex
Ditson Festival: Cantata Singers/Collage New Music - ACFNE-commissioned premiere by Dalit Warshaw
Guerilla Opera - Rudolph Rohan's "We are Sons"

Saturday, September 20
Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: Callithumpian Consort
Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: The George Russell Living Time Orchestra
Guerilla Opera - Rudolph Rohan's "We are Sons"

Sunday, September 21
Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music: Matt Haimovitz, cello
Ditson Festival: BMOP - ACFNE-commissioned premiere by Andy Vores
Guerilla Opera - Rudolph Rohan's "We are Sons"
SeptemberFest Concert: Blazing New Paths: Jazz and New Music

Monday, September 22
New England Conservatory: Music of Lei Liang

Saturday, September 27
New England String Ensemble: Death and the Maiden

Sunday, September 28
New England String Ensemble: Death and the Maiden

Thursday, October 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Previn premiere

Friday, October 3
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Previn premiere
Boston Musica Viva: Living Statues

Saturday, October 4
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Previn premiere

Monday, October 6
Firebird Ensemble: Torrid Nature Scene

Tuesday, October 7
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Previn premiere

Thursday, October 16
Composer Portraits at the Gardner Museum: Music of Philippe Hurel, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Kirchner premiere

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Thanks -- we'll see you at the concerts!

Best regards,

David McMullin
Director, American Composers Forum New England

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