GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tina Davidson

1992 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

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Tina Davidson, Barefoot, 2013, string orchestra. Photo by Cassandra Blum.

Pew Fellow, 1992
Music

References

Tina Davidson's website

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jymie Merritt

Recognized as a pioneering jazz bassist and composer who has played with numerous musical luminaries over his 60-year career, Merritt composes work that brings forth collective improvisation within a complex rhythmic and harmonic language.

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Clone of Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: St. Thomas Gospel Choir

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the St. Thomas Gospel Choir in concert at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

John Schaefer

WNYC radio producer John Schaefer hosts Soundcheck, a show featuring daily live music and criticism, and was the first to be profiled in the Center's American Impresario series.

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Close Music for Bodies

Michael Kiley presents an immersive, participatory vocal performance, developed from the sounds and movements of eight individual bodies.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with "From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America," featuring David Hajdu, John Szwed, and 2010 Pew Fellow Orrin Evans.

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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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Rinde Eckert

Rinde Eckert is a writer, composer, librettist, musician, singer, actor, and director whose theater, musical theater, and dance theater pieces have been performed throughout the US and abroad.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Ars Nova's New Paths Festival Presents Peter Brötzmann at the German Society of Pennsylvania

Jazz artist Peter Brötzmann offers a solo performance inspired by the German Society's Horner Library.

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Endless Shout

This timely, interdisciplinary, experimental series of dance, music, poetry, mixed media installations, and interactive programs—from acclaimed artists and scholars such as choreographer taisha paggett, designer Raul de Nieves, and composer George Lewis— invites audiences to consider African American performance aesthetics and the role of performance in museum spaces.

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Grants & Grantees

In Plain Air

A new composition by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen, performed by the highly acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), activates Christ Church’s historic campus and celebrates the installation of a new custom-built pipe organ.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans (Pew Fellow, 2010) never stops thinking about the traditions and evolution of jazz music, as well as renewing jazz's legacy in the African-American community.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

The Crossing

The Crossing is a 24-member professional chamber choir dedicated to expanding the contemporary choral music experience through commissions, collaborations, and performances.

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Lembit Beecher

Praised by The New York Times for his "alluring, emotive" work, composer Lembit Beecher creates intimate and dramatically potent musical experiences.

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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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Muhal Meets the Wonderful Sound

Warriors of the Wonderful Sound commissioned and premiered a composition from Muhal Richard Abrams, co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: Dixie Hummingbirds

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the Dixie Hummingbirds in concert at World Café Live.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Facing Front Part Two: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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Comédie et Tragédie:

Tempesta di Mare performs two of its orchestral rediscoveries from the French high baroque: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fêtes de Polymnie, and Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus.

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