Urban Legends
Score title
Urban Legends
Composer
Michael Abels
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Program note
URBAN LEGENDS (2012) was commissioned by the Sphinx Organization and premiered by the Harlem Quartet and the Sphinx Symphony at the annual Sphinx Competition in February, 2012. The piece has flavors of many forms of American music, including rock, jazz, hip-hop, EDM, yet in a contemporary concert music setting. This is the piece that inspired Jordan Peele to ask Abels to score his film GET OUT (2017). URBAN LEGENDS was given its Los Angeles premiere by the Inner City Youth Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Charles Dickerson at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2019.