GRANTS & GRANTEES

Anna Weesner

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Mary Lattimore

Classically trained on the harp since age 11, Mary Lattimore (Pew Fellow, 2014) incorporates experimental techniques and technologies into her music, thereby extending the conventions of her instrument.

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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

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Questions of Practice

What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, curator Carlos Basualdo contemplates the idea of a museum as a choreographic score.

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Event

Sounds of the Circle: Primiere

Pew Fellow and pioneering jazz saxophonist Odean Pope presents Sounds of the Circle, a composing, performance, mentoring, and archival project honoring some of North Philadelphia’s jazz innovators of the mid-twentieth century.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

William Parker

William Parker is a leading figure in the New York creative jazz scene. Renowned as a composer, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist, he is also an educator and author.

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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."

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Zydeco Crossroads Presents Rockin' Dopsie Jr. and Marcus Ardoin

WXPN continues their Zydeco Crossroads project with this free concert featuring two prominent Zydeco musicians.

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Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline curates a concert experience inspired by Philadelphia’s rich musical history and Cline’s acclaimed concept recording, Lovers, performed by a specially assembled jazz orchestra.

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Then and Now: Jazz Cubano

Montgomery County Community College presented a series of concerts and programs focusing on the Afro-Cuban influence in jazz.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Pew Fellow, 2011) is considered a living legend among jazz circles. He is credited with redefining the potential of the electric bass.

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Grants & Grantees

First Soundings

A series of ten concerts featured eight Philadelphia premieres and two world premieres.

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Event

Endless Shout Closing Party with Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a closing party for its multidisciplinary project Endless Shout featuring a performance by the musical group Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection Panel Discussion I

In conjunction with Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a panel discussion.

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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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Dance Party with Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Cajun traditions, blues, and R&B. On Saturday, December 6, Zydeco Crossroads welcomes Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble to District N9NE for a free dance party, complete with pre-show dance lessons from Louisiana's Harold Guillory.

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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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Operetta

FringeArts presented the US premiere of Operetta by acclaimed playwright Witold Gombrowicz, directed by Michał Zadara, with new music by Leszek Możdżer.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Dan Blacksberg

Spanning avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music, and klezmer, 2012 Pew Fellow Dan Blacksberg pushes at the technical and textural extremes of his instrument, the trombone.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble

Founded in 1969, Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble seeks to preserve, present, and build upon the dance and music of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Event

Philadelphia Sinfonia Youth Orchestra Performs John Harbison's *Thanks, Victor*

A string quartet drawn from the Philadelphia Sinfonia youth orchestra performs John Harbison's Thanks, Victor.

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