1991 Grants

1991

International House Philadelphia – Expand International Music Series
Discovery Grant, $45,000

Orchestra 2001 – Engaging Internationally Renowned Soloists
Discovery Grant, $40,000

Prince Music Theater – Creation of a Resident Company of Performers
Discovery Grant, $120,000

Settlement Music School – Contemporary Music Players Concerts
Discovery Grant, $30,000

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WXPN presents Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha-Chas

Join WXPN for a free concert by Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha-Chas, and dance lessons from dance instructor Harold Guillory from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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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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The White Lama: World Premiere

Conceived by Nikki Appino, The White Lama: The Improbable Legacy of Theos Bernard is a multimedia work about the quest for the sacred, framed by the life and death of early 20th-century explorer, mystic, and author Theos Bernard.

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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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Grants & Grantees

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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the Joy Inherent in Live Music

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Philadelphia Assembled Performances

As part of its multi-part project Philadelphia Assembled, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a number of performances related to the project’s underlying themes.

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News

Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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Grants & Grantees

Tan Dun's "Tea: A Mirror of Soul"

Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of Tan Dun's 2002 opera, which uses elements of Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies to tell a tragic love story.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Lee Tusman

Lee Tusman is an independent curator based in Philadelphia whose projects straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially-based and urban in nature, with a focus on contemporary new media.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with "From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America," featuring David Hajdu, John Szwed, and 2010 Pew Fellow Orrin Evans.

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Kinan Abou-afach

Classical Arab musician Kinan Abou-afach (Pew Fellow, 2013) was born in Damascus, Syria, where he learned traditional Arabic repertoire on the oud, an Arabic lute.

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Sounds of the Circle

A new evening-length suite by master jazz musician Odean Pope evokes the “distinctive sonic environment” of North Philadelphia and the mid-20th-century innovators who helped build Philadelphia’s jazz legacy.

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The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland: Inaugural Event

Composer Mike Bullock presents the inauguration of the Philadelphia Embassy of the international art project, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV).

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Cage: Beyond Silence

Bowerbird presented this festival in 10-day arcs that each focused on one of John Cage's major musical compositions, providing a concentrated look at Cage's compositional styles.

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Wayne Shorter Commission Project

Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned renowned saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter for a new work inspired by the museum's East Asian art collection.

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Words Adorned: Classical Arab Music and Poetry Reading

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a classical Arab music and poetry reading in conjunction with the Center-funded project, Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.

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KLANG

Pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s KLANG is experienced in a daylong series of 21 chamber music compositions, each written to represent an hour of the day.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

King Britt

King Britt is on a journey, exploring the patchwork of rhythmic textures from many urban dance music cultures: deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk, and afro-tech.

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