Roxanna Panufnik

Choral Arts Philadelphia

2006

$30,000

Choral Arts Philadelphia presented a program of symphonic choral music at the Kimmel Center, Inc.'s Verizon Hall, in celebration of the organization's 25th anniversary. The program featured Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 and Love Abide, a new commission by renowned composer Roxanna Panufnik, with soprano Jacqueline Horner, mezzo-soprano Suzanne DuPlantis, tenor William Yeats, and organist Diane Meredith Belcher.

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Creating Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline describes the inspiring journey through Philadelphia artifacts, sites, and musical moments that led to the creation of Lovers (for Philadelphia).

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Music, Word, and Art in the Age of Cervantes Symposium

Piffaro holds a symposium exploring music, poetry, and art in the Spanish Golden Age, and its relation to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Arun Ramamurthy

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist, composer, and artistic director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective of forward-thinking musicians rooted in and inspired by the classical music of India.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Composer and Violinist Diane Monroe

Composer and violinist Diane Monroe has been leading her own ensembles for more than 15 years. Her cross-genre work bridging European classical, American jazz, and African musical traditions has included engagements with artists and groups such as Pew Fellows Bobby Zankel, Odean Pope, and John Blake; Harlem Symphony Orchestra; and Bang on a Can All Stars.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Home

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Home, the third part in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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Grants & Grantees

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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In Plain Air Open Rehearsals

Christ Church Preservation Trust marks the installation of a new, custom-built pipe organ with world premiere performances of In Plain Air.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble promotes artistic exchange and dialogue between Ukrainians and the global community through dance.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Bassist, composer, and Pew Fellow Jymie Merritt discusses the early influence of Duke Ellington on his artistic practice, his interest in digital composition tools, and more.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Miya Masaoka

Miya Masaoka is a musician, composer, performance artist, teacher, and sound artist living and working in New York City.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dulé Hill

Dulé Hill is an actor best known for his work as Charlie Young on The West Wing. In 2017, he appeared in the Center-supported music-theater work, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light.

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Philadelphia Assembled Film Screening

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a film screening of Zein Nakhoda’s Grounded While Walls Fall.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving November Concert

Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jenny Gersten

Jenny Gersten is producing consultant for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Performances

The Michener Art Museum presents a series music performances and dance workshops that capture the spirit of the 1920s.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dr. Zoé Whitley

Zoe Whitley, PhD is curator of international art at Tate Modern, London.

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Gender, Traditions and Techniques in Flamenco

Michelle Heffner Hayes will provide context for the development of flamenco as a technique, its gendered conventions, and the standardization of its norms.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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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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