From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow

Tempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra

2008

$40,000

tempesta-di-mare-french-baroque-2013-01.jpg

Tempesta di Mare.

The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare presented the concert series From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow in collaboration with the Philadelphia Singers. The program featured J.S. Bach's rarely performed Trauer-Ode, along with the world premiere of composer John Blow's With Cheerful Hearts, an ode to New Year's Day transcribed from the sole surviving manuscript at the British Museum.

Grants & Grantees

Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

grant-content
philadelphia-real-book-concerts-new-music-in-jazz-and-blues
News

On Stage This Fall: Immersive Works from Artist Tania El Khoury, Choreographer Boris Charmatz at the Barnes Foundation, International Contemporary Ensemble at Christ Church and More

news-content
on-stage-this-fall-immersive-works-from-artist-tania-el-khoury-choreographer-boris-charmatz-at-the-barnes-foundation-international-contemporary-ensemble-at-christ-church-and-more
Collaborators & Colleagues

Ellen Lauren

Ellen Lauren is a founding member and co-artistic director of Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) Company, an ensemble-based theater group in New York City.

people-content
ellen-lauren
Event

Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: Radio Documentary

A year of live performances, interviews, and a multimedia website culminates with the launch of the WXPN’s Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul radio documentary, broadcast to national audiences

event-content
gospel-roots-of-rock-and-soul-radio-documentary
Event

Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Crossroads of Dance and Visual Art

Setting the stage for the performances of Trisha Brown's Early Works at the Barnes Foundation, Susan Rosenberg, scholar-in-residence at the Trisha Brown Dance Company, offers an overview of Brown's career at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

event-content
in-the-new-body-at-the-crossroads-of-dance-and-visual-art
Event

The Veterans' Dreams Project: Arts in the Veteran Community Discussion

The Kimmel Center, Inc. presents a discussion with Dr. Gala True, whose research on post-deployment health and reintegration into society will inform a conversation around the arts' role in the veteran community.

event-content
the-veterans-039-dreams-project-arts-in-the-veteran-community-discussion
Event

Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole at Geffen Playhouse

Originally commissioned by People's Light, the new music-theatre work Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole makes its West Coast premiere at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

event-content
lights-out-nat-quot-king-quot-cole-at-geffen-playhouse
Event

Lydie Breeze Cycle: Aipotu

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Aipotu, the second of three performances in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

event-content
lydie-breeze-cycle-aipotu
Event

Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: An Evening of Spirituals and Spiritual-Inspired Song

event-content
gospel-roots-of-rock-and-soul-an-evening-of-spirituals-and-spiritual-inspired-song
Collaborators & Colleagues

Rio Sakairi

Rio Sakairi is artistic director at The Jazz Gallery, a performance space in New York where she has helped to identify and nurture jazz artists since 2000.

people-content
rio-sakairi
Grants & Grantees

Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

grant-content
adapt-
Grants & Grantees

Scorched

North American twins return to their Middle Eastern homeland as they uncover family secrets.

grant-content
scorched
Event

Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Discussion Series

A series of discussions will be held with acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz and various artists and cultural practitioners.

event-content
boris-charmatz-levee-des-conflits-discussion-series
Collaborators & Colleagues

Faustin Linyekula

Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula is a leading contemporary African choreographer and the founder of Studios Kabako.

people-content
faustin-linyekula
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.

question-of-practice-content
questions-of-practice-artist-michael-rakowitz-on-the-live-experience-of-radio
Event

Departure and Discovery: Farewell

Focusing on the work of Bach, Beethoven, and Britten, Farewell explores how each composer addresses themes of departures.

event-content
departure-and-discovery-farewell
Collaborators & Colleagues

Simon Carrington

Simon Carrington is a singer, double bass player, and conductor who maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and masterclasses around the world.

people-content
simon-carrington
Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

people-content
jumatatu-m-poe
Grants & Grantees

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."

grant-content
color-theory
Event

Pig Iron: I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Conceived by Co-Artistic Director Dito van Reigersberg and directed by Dan Rothenberg, this new work builds on Pig Iron's longtime fascination with characters that live on the margins of society.

event-content
i-promised-myself-to-live-faster