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.

Grants & Grantees

Unity at the Initiative

An exhibition, pop-up performances, and workshops underscore the intersections of art, sport, and queer identity in the work of print artist and professional skateboarder Jeffrey Cheung.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

WXPN, University of Pennsylvania

WXPN (88.5 FM) is a nationally recognized public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on rock, blues, roots, and folk music.

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Grants & Grantees

Steppes

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented a home season program featuring Ukrainian costumes and live music by violinist Vasyl Popadiuk.

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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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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival TAPAS Performances

Flamenco master Rosario Toledo will present a series of performances entitled TAPAS: the culmination of a month-long residency with Philadelphia artists Eun Jung Choi, Meg Foley, and Germaine Ingram.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Trey Lyford

Trey Lyford is a theater artist and co-artistic director, with Pew Fellow Geoff Sobelle, of physical theater company rainpan 43.

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Telemann 360º

A two-part concert program, with a live talk show hosted by Live from Lincoln Center's Fred Child and an accompanying studio recording, will offer a renewed perspective on the artistic legacy of baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Color Theory

PRISM commissioned new works by Guggenheim Fellow Steven Mackey and Berlin prize recipient Ken Ueno, which paired the saxophone with a wide range of percussion instruments, in order to investigate "musical color."

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Three Sisters

Arden Theatre Company premieres a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, the culmination of a two-year exploration into the playwright and his work.

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Breath Beneath

PRISM will explore the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and time-based visual art, to lay the foundation for an evening-length production.

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Person of the Crowd: Tania Bruguera’s Displacement

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera will present her 1998 performance work Displacement.

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Questions of Practice

On Frank Zappa’s “Relentless Pursuit of Interesting Sounds:” An Interview with Orchestra 2001’s Jayce Ogren and Zappa Expert Joseph Klein

In conjunction with Orchestra 2001’s Philadelphia premiere of Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark, Jayce Ogren and Dr. Joseph Klein consider the Zappa’s legacy and the process of bringing scores to life for a contemporary audience.

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LIVE REMIX: Stage Adaptations in the New Media Age

LIVE REMIX is a three-part event guest curated by Tom Sellar, including a discussion with director Ivo van Hove, part of a series of programming related to the Center-funded performance of Ivo van Hove's work After the Rehearsal/Persona.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Meiyin Wang

Meiyin Wang is the associate artistic producer of The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and Symposium in New York, which presents new and cutting-edge theatrical work from the U.S. and abroad.

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Perfect Blue

A live and digital theatrical experience will question the impact of technology on human connectivity as two actors perform their roles on separate continents—one live in a theater and the other projected through a live-streaming video feed.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

James Austin Smith

James Austin Smith is a critically acclaimed oboist and artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

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Kip Lornell

Since 1992, Kip Lornell has taught courses in American music and ethnomusicology at George Washington University, and has served on the university's Africana Studies program committee.

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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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Odean Pope

Odean Pope is a saxophonist and composer, and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Kulu Mele: *Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas*

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble presents Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas, a dance program with a selection of works from Ogun & the People.

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