Trade Winds: New Music Explores Asia

Network for New Music

2010

$45,000

Network for New Music commissioned four new chamber works by composers Andrea Clearfield, Shih Hui Chen, Dai Fujikura, and Eric Moe for Trade Winds: New Music Explores Asia. The Network for New Music Ensemble premiered their works under Jan Krzywicki at three concerts, responding to contemporary and traditional music from Tibet, China, and Japan. The composers spoke to composition students and held pre-concert discussions at Settlement Music School and Temple University.

Recipients

Network for New Music

Music

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Greg "Peache" Jarman

Greg "Peache" Jarman (1947–2009) was a musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in Folk and Traditional Arts.

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News

Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score”

In September 2016, with Center support, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score."

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Event

Sounds of the Circle: Conversation with Reggie Workman

Audiences are invited to attend a conversation with renowned bassist Reggie Workman as part of saxophonist and Pew Fellow Odean Pope's Sounds of the Circle project.

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Grants & Grantees

Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

The members of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change will adapt existing folk songs and write new ones in traditional styles, in the hopes of subverting historical narratives in which women are blamed, stigmatized, or victimized.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Odean Pope

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

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Event

WXPN presents Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha-Chas

Join WXPN for a free concert by Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha-Chas, and dance lessons from dance instructor Harold Guillory from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms & the Music of New Orleans Radio Documentary

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Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion

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

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Grants & Grantees

Sound Machines: Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester

The US premiere of a large-scale sound sculpture, conceived by late composer and artist Mauricio Kagel, explores the interplay between sound and object, performance and sculpture.

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Grants & Grantees

Caroline, or Change

This production was the Philadelphia premiere of Caroline, or Change, a musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.

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Grants & Grantees

In Search of Eastman

The possibilities of presenting a contemporary artist's work posthumously will be explored in this discovery project dedicated to Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at 49, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

John McLaughlin Williams

John McLaughlin Williams is an award-winning orchestral conductor, composer, arranger, and violinist.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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Event

Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Dave Liebman and Greg Osby

The PRISM Quartet presents new works composed and performed by Dave Liebman and Greg Osby.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Robert Mealy

Robert Mealy is director of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School, a professor at the Yale School of Music, orchestra director for the Boston Early Music Festival, and co-director of the 17th-century ensemble Quicksilver.

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Philadelphia Assembled Performances

As part of its multi-part project Philadelphia Assembled, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a number of performances related to the project’s underlying themes.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Philadelphia Folklore Project

Since its founding in 1987, Philadelphia Folklore Project has documented, supported, and presented Philadelphia-area folk arts and culture to sustain living cultural heritage in communities.

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Event

Mendelssohn Club Open Rehearsal

Get a sneak peek at a rehearsal of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia's Bach/Mendelssohn St. Matthew Passion. for an introduction to the world of choral music.

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Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: Fisk Jubilee Singers at World Cafe Live

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Ursula Rucker

Interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist Ursula Rucker spoke to us about the influences that shaped the trajectory of her career, from crucial early advice to collaborating across disciplines.

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