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

Mississippi Blues Project

WXPN produced a year-long performance series that brought authentic Mississippi blues to Philadelphia through live performances and radio broadcasts.

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Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark's primary creative emphasis is the exploration of contemporary music that deals directly with advanced methods of improvisation.

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C. Spencer Yeh

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist and composer, as well as his music project Burning Star Core. Yeh served as an LOI panelist in Performance in 2015.

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Comédie et Tragédie:

Tempesta di Mare performs two of its orchestral rediscoveries from the French high baroque: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fêtes de Polymnie, and Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus.

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Piffaro holds a symposium exploring music, poetry, and art in the Spanish Golden Age, and its relation to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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David Ludwig

Ludwig's contemporary classical compositions for a range of instrumental ensembles, voice, theater, and film play with style and genre and address topics ranging from climate change to religious traditions.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa at Symphony Space

The PRISM Quartet presents the world premiere of new works composed and performed by Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa, as well as music by Fabien Lévy and Kaeli Mogg.

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Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music Gets “Philadelphianized” at the Kimmel Center, June 2 & 9

On June 2 and 9, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presents the Philadelphia premiere of MacArthur fellow Taylor Mac’s epic performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

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Jace Clayton

Composer Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture, uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on the global South.

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Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2016)

Opera Philadelphia will implement a new business and program model that will feature an annual season-opening, multi-venue festival, launching in fall 2017, supported by new marketing strategies and a broad range of performance offerings designed to draw audiences from both inside and outside the regional metropolitan area.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa

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Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Virtuosity

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”

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Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

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John Schaefer

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Zaye Tete

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Advancement Grant: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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