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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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection

A concert series curated in collaboration with tenor vocalist Nicholas Phan illuminates the evolution of art song and how the form, with its intersection of poetry and music, remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Orchestra Métropolitain in Montreal, as well as honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

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El Viaje (The Journey)

Percussionist Pablo Batista will blend traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and contemporary Western instrumentation, Afro-Caribbean choreography and evocative multi-media imagery in a performance that will tell a story of the spiritual and cultural resilience of those forced to emigrate from Africa to the Americas and re-establish themselves with dignity.

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Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Telemann 360º Concerts

Tempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra presents a two-part concert program that offers audiences a renewed perspective on baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

John Blake, Jr.

John Blake, Jr. (1947–2014, Pew Fellow, 2010) took his inspiration as a contemporary jazz violinist and composer from some of the genre's greats.

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American Sublime

Bowerbird produced a multi-day festival featuring works composed by Morton Feldman, as well as programs presented with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rotunda.

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Caroline, or Change

This production was the Philadelphia premiere of Caroline, or Change, a musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

John McLaughlin Williams

John McLaughlin Williams is an award-winning orchestral conductor, composer, arranger, and violinist.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Dave Liebman and Greg Osby

The PRISM Quartet presents new works composed and performed by Dave Liebman and Greg Osby.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving November 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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Questions of Practice

Inside Opera Philadelphia: Q&A with David Devan, General Director & President

Opera Philadelphia's David Devan talks with us about the market research that informed the organization’s decision to present a city-wide festival.

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The Musical World of Don Quixote

This music and movement performance will offer audiences a distinctive interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes' four-century-old classic, Don Quixote, combining narrative elements and ballads drawn from the novel, recited in both Spanish and English, and accompanied by monophonic melodies, organ and vihuela works that are reminiscent of the sounds of Golden Age Spain.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón at Symphony Space

The PRISM Quartet presents the New York performance of new works composed and performed by Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón.

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Susan Lankin-Watts

Susan Lankin-Watts (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a singer, trumpet player, composer, and arranger whose complex arrangements draw from tradition, the poetry of her great-grandfather, and a desire to give new voice to the art form and create klezmer culture for a younger generation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is known for her innovative style and cultural dialogue as a composer, improviser, percussionist, and humanitarian.

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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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Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans will be illuminated in this multimedia work created by MacArthur Fellow and jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, in combination with a publication of local veterans' writings produced through a partnership with the veteran-focused arts organization Warrior Writers.

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