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Experimental Stage

1997
$19,100

$19,100 to support the “Experimental Stage” program.

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    The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

    Composer, improviser, and media artist Mike Bullock will join forces with Swedish composers and conceptual artists Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Kent Tankred, and Philadelphia musicians such as Ian Fraser and Bhob Rainey, for a program of electronic music, performance, and installations, expanding Philadelphia's connection to the international experimental music scene.
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    The Andersen Project

    Robert Lepage's multi-media theater work was inspired by stories written by famed Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
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    Free/Form: Composer Portraits

    Ars Nova Workshop's six-concert series featured the music of trumpeter Don Cherry and saxophonist Tim Berne.
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    Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul

    Live performances, a radio documentary series, and a media-rich website explore the roots of gospel and its influence on secular popular music.
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    Greg "Peache" Jarman

    Greg "Peache" Jarman (1947–2009) was a musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in Folk and Traditional Arts.
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  • Collaborators & Colleagues
    Roger LaMay

    Roger LaMay is general manager at WXPN (88.5 FM), a public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania.
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    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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    Andrea Clearfield

    Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that she says, "synthesize disparate elements into a musical whole," in works that explore themes ranging from freedom and oppression, to ancient cultures, religion, health, and technology.
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  • Questions of Practice
    Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Virtuosity

    Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”
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    Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016

    Informed by personal experiences with tinnitus, this collaborative performance series and electroacoustic installation will explore hearing damage, anchored by a handcrafted 20-foot long instrument of piano strings, amplifiers, and a mixer.
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    Jason Moran Commission Project

    An original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran was developed in conjunction with the exhibition Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.
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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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    Showcasing the Modern Masters of Carnatic Music

    Three concerts showcased classical Carnatic music of Southern India.
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  • Event
    Zappa's Radical Classical Roots
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  • GRANTS & GRANTEES
    Greg Osby

    Greg Osby (Pew Fellow, 2012) has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz over the past 20 years, leading his own ensembles and performing with musical icons such as Dizzy Gillespie.
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    Charles Cohen

    Charles Cohen (Pew Fellow, 2011) has been characterized as a "special and singular musician" with a highly developed and refined voice.
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  • News
    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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  • Grants & Grantees
    Eric Sessler Organ Concerto

    Composer Eric Sessler's organ concerto received its world premiere on the Kimmel Center's Dobson pipe organ.
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    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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    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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