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Grants & Grantees

Experimental Stage

1997
$19,100

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

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  • Grants & Grantees
    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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  • Grants & Grantees
    Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole

    A world premiere, music-theater work by playwright Colman Domingo and directed by Patricia McGregor will offer a fresh perspective on the artistic legacy of vocalist and jazz pianist Nat "King" Cole by bringing to light both his on- and off-stage personas, as well as telling the story behind the 1957 demise of his groundbreaking national television variety show amidst America's growing civil rights movement.
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    That Which Is Fundamental

    The first multi-concert retrospective of Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at age 49, included rarely-performed works that showcased the composer's broad compositional practice.
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    Breaking the Waves

    The world premiere of a new chamber opera by composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, inspired by the 1996 film by Danish auteur Lars von Trier, tells the harrowing tale of a naive newlywed who has chosen to marry outside of her strict Calvinist community in coastal Scotland.
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  • Event
    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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    Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: An Evening of Spirituals and Spiritual-Inspired Song
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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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  • Questions of Practice
    Fellows Friday: Q&A with Vocalist and Composer Tokay Tomah

    Vocalist, composer, and recording artist Tokay Tomah on starting her artistic career in Liberia, using music as a vehicle for building peace, and more.
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  • Event
    Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection Concerts

    The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents six concerts as part of Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection.
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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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  • Grants & Grantees
    Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark

    The Philadelphia premiere of The Yellow Shark celebrates the genre-defying compositional work of maverick American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa.
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    (Dis)placed: Expressions of Identity in Transition

    Four artists of Arab heritage came together in an international collaboration to create new poetry, music, and visual art works grappling with notions of displacement.
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    Playing and Preserving

    This interdisciplinary project builds artistic collaborations and civic energy around Philadelphia’s historic sacred places and their pipe organs.
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  • Event
    PRISM Quartet Presents Color Theory: Composers Forum

    PRISM Quartet's Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a Composers Forum.
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  • Grants & Grantees
    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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  • GRANTS & GRANTEES
    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
    Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris’ New Work for Alvin Ailey Praised, James Ijames and Major Jackson Featured in New York Times, Alex Da Corte Named to “Most Influential Artists of 2018”

    As 2018 comes to a close, our Pew Fellows remain active with public art, exhibitions, performances, residencies, and national press coverage. See the latest news updates in our roundup below.
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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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    Michael Kiley

    Michael Kiley is a composer, sound designer, performer, and educator working in dance, theater, and public installation.
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  • Grants & Grantees
    Brett Bailey: Macbeth Performances and Residency

    South African theater artist Brett Bailey will visit Philadelphia for a three-week residency and a presentation of his adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, presented in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia.
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