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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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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Center-Funded Projects from Madhusmita Bora, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, Orchestra 2001, Penn Museum in The New York Times, NPR, Hyperallergic & More

A number of Center grantees have recently garnered national and regional media attention for their performances and exhibitions.

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Grants & Grantees

In Search of Eastman

The possibilities of presenting a contemporary artist's work posthumously will be explored in this discovery project dedicated to Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at 49, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings.

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The Sentient Archive and Knowing Dance More

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and The University of the Arts School of Dance present scholar and writer Jenn Joy and choreographer and dancer Maria Hassabi in conversation on March 27.

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Our 2019 Grantee Celebration in Photos

More than 120 members of the region’s cultural community gathered at the Science History Institute to celebrate the 12 new Pew Fellows and 27 Project grantees.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dr. Zoé Whitley

Zoe Whitley, PhD is curator of international art at Tate Modern, London.

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22nd New Edge Residency

Theater artist Justin Jain, theater artist Adrienne Mackey, and choreographer Olive Prince developed new work in the CEC’s New Edge Residency program.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Martin Hartung

Martin Hartung is a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he researches the exhibition history of architectural projects on the art market.

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Room 21

A new album-length composition by composer Jace Clayton informed by the artworks of The Barnes Foundation and Albert Barnes' extensive record collection.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving October Concert

Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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Arun Ramamurthy

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist, composer, and artistic director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective of forward-thinking musicians rooted in and inspired by the classical music of India.

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Sun & Sea Performances

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Creating Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline describes the inspiring journey through Philadelphia artifacts, sites, and musical moments that led to the creation of Lovers (for Philadelphia).

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Frank Zappa – *The Yellow Shark* Philadelphia Premiere

Orchestra 2001 will present the Philadelphia premiere of the genre-defying composition The Yellow Shark, by maverick American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa.

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That Which Is Fundamental Concerts

Bowerbird presents a multi-concert retrospective of the late African American composer Julius Eastman.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on Threading Disparate Sources into a Cohesive Whole

Michael Rakowitz describes the process behind creating a performance and radio project involving American veterans and the Iraqi refugee community.

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The Pregnant Speakeasy 

A devised performance work will blend theater, installation, cabaret, and visual projection to reveal and celebrate the power of the pregnant body.

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*In Terms of Performance*, A Keywords Anthology

In Terms of Performance provokes dialogue, debate, and discovery in an anthology of keywords designed to generate shared literacies.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Vijayalakshmi

Vijayalakshmi is a classical Indian dancer and a renowned expert in the mohiniyattam dance form.

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