GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tyrone Brown

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

References

Tyrone Brown at the Dreambox Media website

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tokay Tomah

Tomah uses traditional folk songs of compassion, trust, and reconciliation to generate collective strength and foster dialogue about critical issues facing Liberian immigrant communities.

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Grants & Grantees

Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer

A concert of new klezmer compositions, written and performed by three generations of women, brings contemporary meaning to a traditional, Eastern European, Jewish folk music form.

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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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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

Departure and Discovery: Waywardness

The work of Schumann, Gesualdo, Brahms, and Mozart will be performed to evoke themes of fragility, unconventionality, and playfulness explored by the composers late in their careers.

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Hafez Javier Kotain

Hafez Javier Kotain is a percussionist and teacher, fluent in both Arab and Latin rhythms.

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Sonic Arts Union

International House Philadelphia presented a series of concerts featuring the creative work of the Sonic Arts Union, a music collective founded in 1966.

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Julia Wolfe's "Anthracite Fields"

Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia concluded a two-year project around the commission of a new, hybrid choral work by composer Julia Wolfe.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Centrala

Founded in 2013 by Michał Zadara, Centrala is a theater company based in Warsaw, Poland.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jamey Robinson

"I have never had a shortage of ideas for creating music," says 2007 Pew Fellow Jamey Robinson.

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Words Adorned: Classical Arab Music and Poetry Reading

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a classical Arab music and poetry reading in conjunction with the Center-funded project, Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.

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News

Temple Contemporary’s Symphony for a Broken Orchestra Makes Headlines in The New York Times, The Guardian, and More

Symphony for a Broken Orchestra has received extensive national and local media coverage, including reviews and interviews in The New York Times, NPR, and The Atlantic, among others.

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Hello Blackout!

New Paradise Laboratories presents the world premiere of Hello Blackout!, a devised theater work created by NPL artistic director and Pew Fellow Whit MacLaughlin and composer and Pew Fellow Bhob Rainey.

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Sophia’s Forest

Composer Lembit Beecher presents a multi-disciplinary chamber opera that focuses on the experience of childhood.

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Silent Night

Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of a new opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, which went on to win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Leadership

Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on why trust is more useful for leadership than fear.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: The Bill Stewart Quartet

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Bill Stewart Quartet at Painted Bride Art Center.

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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