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Premiere of the Month: Shelley Washington’s new cello concerto

2026-02-20T09:00:00

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A Metal-influenced cello concerto channels a range of emotions

In the American Composers Orchestra’s upcoming concert, comprising a programme of ‘musical open letters to America’, US composer Shelley Washington presents her new ‘Haymaker’ Cello Concerto. It is based on her 2019 composition for solo cello with kick drum, Seething, which expresses, as Washington describes it, ‘the suppression of women’s unbridled rage’…

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