The Cinematic Cello

2006

$4,700

Chamber Music Now (CMN) presented The Cinematic Cello, a multimedia concert featuring cellist Ovidiu Marinescu alongside video and electronic accompaniment. CMN commissioned four world-premiere works for the production, pairing local composers and filmmakers to create collaborative compositions inspired by Philadelphia. Collaborators included composers Richard Belcastro, Andrea Clearfield, David Ludwig, and Paul Geissinger, and filmmakers Deron Albright, Ed Feldman, and Can Yegen.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Fred Hersch Trio

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Fred Hersch Trio.

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In Plain Air: Science & Music

Christ Church Preservation Trust brings together members of International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Franklin Institute science educators, and organ builders to explore the science of Christ Church's newly installed pipe organ.

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Supper, People on the Move

Supper, People on the Move, a large-scale performance by choreographer Silvana Cardell, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015.

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News

What Inspired in 2017? Our Network Responds

As 2017 draws to a close, we asked Center colleagues, panelists, grantees, and staff to reflect on the year in art.

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Radio Silence: Listening Party

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents a public listening party to celebrate the launch of a multi-episode radio broadcast for Radio Silence.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Johannes Goebel

Johannes Goebel joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 as the founding director of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

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Apollo at Play by Tempesta di Mare

Philadelphia's baroque orchestra plays French orchestral music written for the theater.

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Grants & Grantees

Destiny Estimate

An experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music, this world premiere play will investigate "questions of prophecy, fate, and predestination," says Kaufman.

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Nouvelle, Nouvelle: A 16th-Century French Christmas Midnight Mass

A midnight mass service featured Claudin de Sermisy's Missa voulant Honneur, French Noel songs, and a nativity play.

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AUX Curatorial Fellowship Program

Member-run artist collective Vox Populi will launch a curatorial fellowship program dedicated to performance art, hosting five curatorial fellows in total over a period of two years.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Composer David Lang on Classical Music, Education, Composing, and Virtuosity

Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer David Lang on creating a score for 400 broken instruments, music education, classical music, and more.

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El Viaje (The Journey): Work-in-Progress Preview

Percussionist and Pew Fellow Pablo Batista presents a work-in-progress showing of his forthcoming Center-funded project El Viaje (The Journey), as part of The Barnes Foundation's Free First Sunday series.

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Macbeth

FringeArts presents South African theater artist Brett Bailey's adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, performed by the performance group Third World Bunfight.

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

Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the second of three concert series as part of 1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach.

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Civic Practice: Crank It Up

OACCE presents the culminating event of its yearlong discovery project Civic Practice.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bruce A. Lemon, Jr.

Bruce A. Lemon, Jr. is an actor, writer, director, and artistic director of Watts Village, a Los Angeles-based theater company and arts education organization.

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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Set Designer Mimi Lien on a Design-First Theater-Making Process

Mimi Lien discusses developing a set design that leads the theatrical process rather than “serves a script.”

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Radio Silence Broadcasts

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents seven Radio Silence broadcasts hosted by artist Michael Rakowitz, April 15–May 27.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is a dancer and professor in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

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