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Experimental Stage

1997
$19,100

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

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  • Event
    Words Adorned: Classical Arab Music and Poetry Reading

    Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a classical Arab music and poetry reading in conjunction with the Center-funded project, Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.
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    From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow

    Tempesta di Mare presented a concert series of baroque interpretations in collaboration with the Philadelphia Singers.
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    Cage: Beyond Silence

    Bowerbird presented this festival in 10-day arcs that each focused on one of John Cage's major musical compositions, providing a concentrated look at Cage's compositional styles.
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  • Collaborators & Colleagues
    Julia Wolfe

    Composer Julia Wolfe, whose music is inspired by the folk, classical, and rock genres, is co-founder of New York's music collective Bang on a Can.
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    Mending Wall

    Composers Martin Bresnick, George Lewis, Arturo O’Farrill, and Juri Seo create new works exploring the metaphorical meaning of walls in contemporary society, performed by PRISM Quartet.
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    Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Sing Freedom Sing Festival Finale Concert

    The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will premiere a new work by Philadelphia composer Uri Caine, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, guest soloists, a 250-voice gospel choir, and praise dancers.
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    Soundfield@Slought

    Local and international artists came together for a series of concerts and educational programs.
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    Bach/Mendelssohn St. Matthew Passion

    Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia celebrates their 140th season with the North American premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's 1841 revision of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

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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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    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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    Elizabeth Huston

    Elizabeth Huston is a harpist, educator, and producer of contemporary performance events.

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  • Collaborators & Colleagues
    Tom Moon

    Music critic Tom Moon has written about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and world music for more than three decades.
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    ARC

    An evening-length performance suite brings together the drumming traditions of tabla from North India and taiko from Japan with contemporary dance and Japanese butoh.
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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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  • Event
    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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    A Period of Animate Existence

    The world premiere of a symphonic theater hybrid that brings together actors, classical musicians, intergenerational choirs, and electronic music.
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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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    Firebird: Reimagined

    Russian folktales and South African music and puppetry united in a multidisciplinary interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's composition for the 1910 ballet The Firebird, featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning South African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and larger-than-life puppets by Janni Younge of South Africa's renowned Handspring Puppet Company.
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    Room 21

    A performance and newly commissioned album-length musical composition by Jace Clayton will take its inspiration from the artwork and record collection of Albert Barnes—including a recording which is credited with introducing African American spirituals to the wider world—offering audiences a way to reconnect with and to reimagine the Barnes Foundation collection through sound.
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  • Collaborators & Colleagues
    Ari Benjamin Meyers

    Ari Benjamin Meyers is a US-born, Berlin-based composer and visual artist whose work aims to explore the relationship between performer and audience and the performative, social, and ephemeral nature of music.

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