The Hollenbeck Commission

Painted Bride Art Center

2008

$50,000

Painted Bride Art Center commissioned composer, bandleader, and jazz drummer John Hollenbeck to create and perform a new work with his Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck also participated in a two-week residency program, during which he produced and performed a new work in collaboration with 10 Philadelphia musicians.

A virtuosic percussionist with a daring approach to composition, Hollenbeck is a Grammy-nominated artist best known for his work with the big band group the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and the avant-garde jazz ensemble The Claudia Quintet.

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Departure and Discovery: Waywardness

The work of Schumann, Gesualdo, Brahms, and Mozart will be performed to evoke themes of fragility, unconventionality, and playfulness explored by the composers late in their careers.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins on Process in Theater-Making

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is a legendary downtown theater artist, currently on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was one of the founders of the Performance Studies department.

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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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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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Killjoy's Kastle

Curator and co-director of Icebox Project Space Timothy Belknap presents Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive performance and visual art installation.

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Endless Shout: taisha paggett’s counts orchestrate, a meadow (or weekly practice with breath)

The ICA presents choreographer and performance artist taisha paggett’s counts orchestrate, a meadow (or weekly practice with breath).

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O Monsters at Capital Fringe Festival

New Paradise Laboratories’ O Monsters, the companion piece to their Center-supported project Hello Blackout!, travels to the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center, Inc., best known as a presenting organization and home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is one of the most well-attended cultural venues in Philadelphia.

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News

Fall Arts in Philadelphia: Milford Graves at Institute of Contemporary Art, Films at Eastern State Penitentiary, David Gordon On-screen

As the season turns to fall, Philadelphia’s cultural institutions are offering new exhibitions and performances, with both online and in-person programming.

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I Promised Myself to Live Faster at the 39th Humana Festival of New Plays

Philadelphia's own Pig Iron Theatre Company premieres their Center-funded, Charles Ludlam-inspired piece at the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville, KY.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Jenny Gersten discusses the approach to programming the Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Donald Nally

Donald Nally is conductor of The Crossing, a professional chamber choir focused on new music.

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Grants & Grantees

The Partita Project

Choreographer Lisa Kraus developed a postmodern dance featuring a live violin performance by musician Diane Monroe.

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PRISM Quartet: Color Theory Workshops

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color."

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Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole

People’s Light presents the world premiere of a new music-theatre work that sheds light on legendary vocalist and jazz pianist Nat "King" Cole's public and private personas.

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Potluck and Dance Party with Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Cajun traditions, blues, and R&B. On Saturday, December 13, Zydeco Crossroads and Allons Danser welcome zydeco musicians Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys to Norristown's Holy Saviour Club for a holiday potluck and dance party.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kyle deCamp

Kyle deCamp is a cross-media performance artist whose work investigates the intersections of art, history, space, and individual lives.

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The Dance Apocalypse by Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler

Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler star in this dance collaboration about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Girard College

Girard College is a five-day boarding school for academically capable first-through-twelfth-grade students from families with limited financial resources.

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