American Composers Orchestra, Rei Hotoda - America in Weimar: On the Margins (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. A Jazz Symphony (1955 version)
02. Sophisticated Lady (Orch. Morton Gould)
03. The Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano and Accordion by Felipe Hostins)
04. Right Now
05. Solitude (Orch. Morton Gould)
06. Her Land, Expanded
07. Lowak Shoppala': Scene 4, Clans (Chamber orchestra version)

The program America in Weimar: On the Margins was part of Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, a citywide festival in 2024 exploring the thriving creative period in Germany between World War I and World War II. Led by conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) present a recording of that program featuring George Antheil’s A Jazz Symphony, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Lady and Solitude (arr. Morton Gould), and Kurt Weill’s Pirate Jenny alongside new works by John Glover & Kelley Rourke, Tonia Ko, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate. “We invite the audience to contemplate the American influence on the Weimar period and conversely trace Weimar’s enduring values in American art and music,” says ACO Artistic Director Curtis Stewart. “This century-long musical journey looks back to look forward – a moment for reflection – to discover possibilities of communal and individual determination in tumultuous times.”