Nov. 2, 2018: World Premier of Alex Temple’s “Three Principles of Noir”

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) will perform the world premiere a piece having a time-traveling science fiction narrative centered around a Chicago historian who travels back in time to the 1893 World’s Fair. The ensemble will perform Alex Temple’s Three Principles of Noir with singer Meaghan Burke, on November 2, 2018, at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Three Principles of Noir is a “science-fiction micro-opera” for amplified voice and chamber orchestra with lighting and costume, set in Chicago’s past, present and future. Alex Temple, who graduated with her D.M.A. from Northwestern University in 2017, describes her work as a “time-travel neo-Noir story about murder, patriarchy, H.H. Holmes and all sorts of things.”

Three Principles of Noir will be performed in a concert beginning at 7:30 pm on November 2, 2018, in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. and 7th Ave., in New York.