A Composer's Portrait

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

2010

$75,000

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presented A Composer's Portrait, featuring a commissioned work by American composer and electric guitarist Steven Mackey, conducted by Music Director Dirk Brosse. Mackey's awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and two awards from the Kennedy Center for the performing arts. He participated in post-concert discussions, a workshop, and a composer forum presented in collaboration with the Curtis Institute, University of the Arts, and the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Freedom Rap Session Youth Panel Discussion

Hip-hop artists and scholars will explore and unpack the experience of racism through music and lyrics.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Peter Paulsen

Peter Paulsen is a classical and jazz performer, both of which influence his composition style, and a 2007 Pew Fellow.

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WXPN Concert Featuring Leon Chavis & The Zydeco Flames + Koray Broussard & The Zydeco Unit

Join WXPN for two free performances, featuring Leon Chavis & The Zydeco Flames and Koray Broussard & The Zydeco Unit.

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Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson (Pew Fellow, 2007) has been increasingly recognized as one of the major composers of his generation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Odean Pope

Odean Pope is a saxophonist and composer, and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Zydeco Crossroads Radio Hour and live broadcast with Creole United

On October 30 at 9 p.m. ET, WXPN broadcasts live from Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Louisiana with the zydeco all-star group Creole United.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

royal hartigan

royal hartigan is a percussionist, pianist, and tap dancer. He has studied and performed the music of Asia, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and the Americas, and is versed in the traditions of African American blues, gospel, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. He served as a Center Performance panelist in 2014 and a Performance LOI panelist in 2015.

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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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Julia Wolfe's "Anthracite Fields"

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia concluded a two-year project around the commission of a new, hybrid choral work by composer Julia Wolfe.

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Grammy Awards go to Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet

Composer and Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon (1999) and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet are awarded 2018 Grammy Awards by the Recording Academy.

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Endless Shout Closing Party with Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a closing party for its multidisciplinary project Endless Shout featuring a performance by the musical group Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

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Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

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Advancement Grant: Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis will design and implement a new curriculum that provides graduates with the entrepreneurial and business skills necessary to forge effective careers within the rapidly changing classical music field, including coaching in how to produce, promote, and present their own music in innovative ways.

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Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

The members of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change will adapt existing folk songs and write new ones in traditional styles, in the hopes of subverting historical narratives in which women are blamed, stigmatized, or victimized.

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Nikki Appino

Nikki Appino is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: McCrary Sisters

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the McCrary Sisters in concert at World Café Live.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Then and Now: Jazz Cubano

Montgomery County Community College presented a series of concerts and programs focusing on the Afro-Cuban influence in jazz.

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Lenny Seidman

Lenny Seidman is a tabla player, composer, and teacher who focuses on contemporary applications for tabla and collaborations with non-western drumming and postmodern and non-western dance traditions.

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