Mississippi Blues Project: Terry Harmonica Bean / Jimmy Duck Holmes

22 Oct 2012
19:30:00 - 21:00:00

World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Monday, October 22, 2012

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This show is free; RSVP for tickets here. Limited seating available. Doors are at 6:30pm; Show at 7:30pm.

2012 Philadelphia Music Project Grantee

Grants & Grantees

Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Nels Cline's Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Ars Nova Workshop presents a new commission created and performed by Nels Cline, lead guitarist for the band Wilco. An expansion of Cline’s 2016 recording Lovers (Blue Note Records), the new commission is inspired by research trips that led Cline on an inspiring journey through significant Philadelphia moments, artifacts, and sites.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Djupstrom

A classical music composer and pianist, Michael Djupstrom (Pew Fellow, 2014) seeks to connect with audiences by bridging traditional and contemporary styles of musical expression.

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Heritage/Evolution: PRISM Quartet with Dave Liebman and Greg Osby at Symphony Space

The PRISM Quartet presents a New York performance of new works composed and performed by Dave Liebman and Greg Osby.

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Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Drozdowski, a curator of performance, will host European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career.

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Clone of Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: St. Thomas Gospel Choir

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the St. Thomas Gospel Choir in concert at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas.

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Endless Shout: Mouth of Darkness by Travis

The ICA presents Mouth of Darkness, a performance by musician Travis, organized by Endless Shout collaborator The Otolith Group.

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Grants & Grantees

(Dis)placed: Expressions of Identity in Transition

Four artists of Arab heritage came together in an international collaboration to create new poetry, music, and visual art works grappling with notions of displacement.

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Tina Davidson

Tina Davidson is a composer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia's Big Sing

The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia opens its 141st season on Sunday, October 26 with its biggest BIG SING ever, laying the foundation for the North American premiere of the Bach-Mendelssohn St. Matthew Passion.

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The Anchoress

The world premiere of composer Ludwig's song cycle for soprano, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, will channel the voice and inner life of an imagined medieval "anchoress," bridging Renaissance and contemporary musical languages.

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Inspired by the Spiritual

Astral Artists celebrated its 20th-anniversary season with a concert of commissioned works by three noted African-American composers: Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Evelyn Simpson-Curenton.

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Tradition – An Evolving Continuum

Vidyasankar, a composer, vocalist, and accomplished performer on the chitravina (a 20-stringed slide instrument), will produce a concert that explores the evolving continuum of South Indian musical lineage.

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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Let Freedom Sing Community Jubilee

Local ministers and their choirs will participate in a church meeting revival, offering a praise and worship opportunity for the entire community.

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A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach: Eastertide

Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the final installment of its concert series, 1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach.

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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection

A concert series curated in collaboration with tenor vocalist Nicholas Phan illuminates the evolution of art song and how the form, with its intersection of poetry and music, remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kip Lornell

Since 1992, Kip Lornell has taught courses in American music and ethnomusicology at George Washington University, and has served on the university's Africana Studies program committee.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: The Bill Stewart Quartet

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Bill Stewart Quartet at Painted Bride Art Center.

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Questions of Practice

What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, curator Carlos Basualdo contemplates the idea of a museum as a choreographic score.

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