Glass Persephone and Reich Variations

The Philadelphia Singers

2009

$45,000

The Philadelphia Singers collaborated with new music ensembles Relâche and Orchestra 2001, in a program featuring the world premiere performance of Persephone by Philip Glass and the Philadelphia premiere of You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich. The program was performed at Annenberg Center Live and also included the Philadelphia premiere of two laude for female chorus from British composer Gavin Bryars' Laude Cortonese.

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Nels Cline's Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Ars Nova Workshop presents a new commission created and performed by Nels Cline, lead guitarist for the band Wilco. An expansion of Cline’s 2016 recording Lovers (Blue Note Records), the new commission is inspired by research trips that led Cline on an inspiring journey through significant Philadelphia moments, artifacts, and sites.

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Mendelssohn Club Presents Anthracite Fields by Julia Wolfe

Retrace mining lore back to the anthracite fields of central Pennsylvania through this new, folk-classical hybrid choral work by composer Julia Wolfe.

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New Paths Festival

Ars Nova Workshop presented this citywide concert series in May 2014, at which celebrated jazz artists played in unconventional venues throughout Philadelphia, known for their rich histories.

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Ars Nova Workshop

Ars Nova Workshop, a free jazz and experimental music presenter, has programmed nearly 700 events since 2000, often in atypical settings.

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Tempesta di Mare presents Purcell, Charpentier & ¡zarzuela!

Tempesta di Mare continues their two-season exploration of rarely-performed French orchestral music written for the theater.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa

Rudresh Mahanthappa is a saxophonist and composer who hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.

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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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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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Apollo at Play by Tempesta di Mare

Philadelphia's baroque orchestra plays French orchestral music written for the theater.

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The Space Between the Notes Jazz Workshop with John Harbison

Composer John Harbison leads a jazz workshop with area students and professional musicians.

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Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2016)

Opera Philadelphia will implement a new business and program model that will feature an annual season-opening, multi-venue festival, launching in fall 2017, supported by new marketing strategies and a broad range of performance offerings designed to draw audiences from both inside and outside the regional metropolitan area.

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Toshi Makihara

Toshi Makihara is a 2013 Pew Fellow whose performance work effortlessly blends percussion with dance-like body movement.

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Philadelphia Sinfonia Youth Orchestra Performs John Harbison's *Thanks, Victor*

A string quartet drawn from the Philadelphia Sinfonia youth orchestra performs John Harbison's Thanks, Victor.

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Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the arts of Southeast Asia.

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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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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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Silent Night

Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of a new opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, which went on to win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and a 1999 Pew Fellow and one of America’s most frequently performed living composers.

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KLANG

Pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s KLANG is experienced in a daylong series of 21 chamber music compositions, each written to represent an hour of the day.

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