The American Composers Orchestra will perform the ouverture, ballet music, and some vocal passages from Armide, a new opera in development.  Armide is a recasting of the 1686 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully cast fifteen years into the future in post-war Iraq. 

Baroque fragments, hip-hop, and Iraqi folk music are morphed into new musical syntax using compositional procedures based upon fractal geometry.  Presented as part of the Playing it UNsafe program, the ACO is led by Jeffrey Milarsky.

Armide and Renaud, 1:42 - 2:42

Passacaille/Armide's Bedroom, 2:25 - 3:00