Metamorphosis, Premiere Recording

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

2008

$25,000

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Higdon, Clearfield, Primosch: Metamorphosis, Innova Recordings.

The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia received Center support to produce Higdon, Clearfield, Primosch: Metamorphosis on Innova Recordings. The album featured The Golem Psalms by Pew Fellow Andrea Clearfield, Fire-memory/River-memory by James Primosch, and On the Death of the Righteous by Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon, and included performances by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and baritone Sanford Sylvan.

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on “Serving Her Muse”

Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris describes what inspires her to “follow her muse.”

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Event

Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Opening Reception and Performance

An opening reception for University of the Arts’ Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde highlights three of Philadelphia’s major composers: Vincent Persichetti, George Rochberg, and George Crumb.

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Ogun & the People: World Premiere

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble debuts Ogun & the People at the Annenberg Center.

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Grants & Grantees

ALIAS

Theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, a 2002 Pew Fellow, will create a new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela Alias El Mexicano.

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Saayujya (The Merging)

Two of India's preeminent artists, Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna and bharata natyam dancer Priyadarsini Govind, will fuse classical South Indian music and dance in a world premiere that is the culmination of a two-year artistic collaboration, and is inspired by themes of liberty and freedom drawn from Philadelphia's history.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Stockton

Susan Stockton recently retired as the president of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, a position she held since September of 2003. She is currently studying creative writing at Oxford University. Stockton served as a 2015 Performance LOI panelist.

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News

On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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The Body Lautrec at FringeArts Scratch Night

Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie present excerpts from The Body Lautrec at FringeArts' Scratch Night.

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Projects on Tour: Center-Supported Works by Ann Hamilton, David Ludwig, Silvana Cardell, and more

After premieres in the Philadelphia region, Center-funded performances and exhibitions are reaching new national and international audiences in venues around the world.

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Mending Wall premiere

PRISM Quartet, along with soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Arturo O’Farrill, perform the world premiere of works by four composers—Martin Bresnick, George Lewis, Juri Seo, and O’Farrill—that explore the contemporary meaning of walls by giving musical form to questions about identity, community, division, and freedom.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Vijayalakshmi

Vijayalakshmi is a classical Indian dancer and a renowned expert in the mohiniyattam dance form.

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Grants & Grantees

Still Unknown

Nicole Cousineau collaborated with seven local performance artists to create an immersive dance-theater work.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

Rosario Toledo performs Vengo, a piece that switches in and out of the flamenco idiom, originally created to be performed in the streets of her hometown of Cádiz, Spain.

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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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Questions of Practice

Ain Gordon, 2018-19 Visiting Artist

We asked returning Center Visiting Artist, playwright, director, and actor Ain Gordon to reflect on developments in artistic practice and what he’s observing in the Philadelphia cultural community.

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Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jamal Cyrus

Jamal Cyrus is a multidisciplinary artist based in Houston working in performance and visual arts.

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Grants & Grantees

Farming

A choral work will confront ways in which modern farming and food production shape the environment, communities, and essential workers in live performances staged at dusk among the crops of a Bucks County farm.

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PRISM Quartet Master Class and Panel Discussion with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Lehman, and John Schaefer

This event features saxophonists/composers Mahanthappa and Lehman, and WNYC's John Schaefer, as they address the unique challenges of collaborating across genres.

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Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College’s performing arts series has been presenting innovative works in the Philadelphia area since 1984.

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