GRANTS & GRANTEES

Carol Antrom

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Music

References

Carol Antrom at the AllMusic website

Grants & Grantees

Music for Saxophones: Heritage/Evolution

This 30th-anniversary project was PRISM Quartet's most ambitious to date, consisting of six new commissions and world premiere performances by prominent jazz saxophonists/composers.

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Odean Pope

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

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Susan Lankin-Watts

Susan Lankin-Watts (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a singer, trumpet player, composer, and arranger whose complex arrangements draw from tradition, the poetry of her great-grandfather, and a desire to give new voice to the art form and create klezmer culture for a younger generation.

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Julia Wolfe

Composer Julia Wolfe, whose music is inspired by the folk, classical, and rock genres, is co-founder of New York's music collective Bang on a Can.

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Lucy Shelton

Winner of two Walter W. Naumburg Awards, soprano Lucy Shelton enjoys an international career bringing her dramatic vocalism and interpretive skills to repertoire of all periods.

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For the Sake of Our Sisters: The Liberian Women's Chorus for Change in Concert

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Myth, Music, Truth: Network for New Music Concert with John Harbison

John Harbison sets the poetry of Louise Glück, Jessica Fisher, and Eugenio Montale to music and conducts this premiere performance.

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Mendelssohn Club's St. Matthew Passion Symposium

Mendelssohn Club Artistic Director Alan Harler and a panel of experts will lead a discussion on Mendelssohn's editing choices in considering Bach's original score.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will present this civil rights-inspired festival, which will include the world premiere of a new 20-minute work by noted composer and Pew Fellow Uri Caine.

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Africa, the Call and Response

Montgomery County Community College presented four concerts with African popular artists who derive their music from native traditions while incorporating western instruments and techniques.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Roger LaMay

Roger LaMay is general manager at WXPN (88.5 FM), a public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania.

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Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2014)

Opera Philadelphia conducted in-depth, strategic audience research that informs the development of a set of programs that, together with enhanced marketing efforts, respond to new audience behaviors and preferences.

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Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer

Philadelphia Folklore Project’s Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer presents a one-night-only, world-premiere concert of new compositions.

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Nikki Appino

Nikki Appino is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker.

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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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PRISM Quartet Workshop with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Greg Osby, and Matthew Levy

Speakers Rudresh Mahanthappa, Greg Osby and Matthew Levy share their thoughts on record production and establishing artistic identity.

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That Which Is Fundamental Concerts

Bowerbird presents a multi-concert retrospective of the late African American composer Julius Eastman.

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The Crossing presents Seven Responses

The Crossing commissions 15-minute musical pieces by seven leading composers, created in response to 17th-century composer Dieterich Buxtehude's Jesu Membra Nostri, a series of seven German Baroque cantatas.

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Inspired by the Spiritual

Astral Artists celebrated its 20th-anniversary season with a concert of commissioned works by three noted African-American composers: Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Evelyn Simpson-Curenton.

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Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans will be illuminated in this multimedia work created by MacArthur Fellow and jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, in combination with a publication of local veterans' writings produced through a partnership with the veteran-focused arts organization Warrior Writers.

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