GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tyrone Brown

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

References

Tyrone Brown at the Dreambox Media website

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Zydeco Crossroads

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Creole traditions, blues, and R&B.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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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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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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Brett Bailey: Macbeth Performances and Residency

South African theater artist Brett Bailey will visit Philadelphia for a three-week residency and a presentation of his adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, presented in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving December Concert

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Playing and Preserving, Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Drozdowski, a curator of performance, will host European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career.

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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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Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2016)

Opera Philadelphia will implement a new business and program model that will feature an annual season-opening, multi-venue festival, launching in fall 2017, supported by new marketing strategies and a broad range of performance offerings designed to draw audiences from both inside and outside the regional metropolitan area.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Composer and Violinist Diane Monroe

Composer and violinist Diane Monroe has been leading her own ensembles for more than 15 years. Her cross-genre work bridging European classical, American jazz, and African musical traditions has included engagements with artists and groups such as Pew Fellows Bobby Zankel, Odean Pope, and John Blake; Harlem Symphony Orchestra; and Bang on a Can All Stars.

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Sounds of the Circle: Conversation with Reggie Workman

Audiences are invited to attend a conversation with renowned bassist Reggie Workman as part of saxophonist and Pew Fellow Odean Pope's Sounds of the Circle project.

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News

Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Alex Ross

Alex Ross is music critic for The New Yorker and the author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, a cultural history of 20th-century music.

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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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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance, and has extended the language of the harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing.

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Elaine Hoffman Watts

Elaine Hoffman Watts was a klezmer musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in folk and traditional arts.

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Now Again, Premiere Recording

Network for New Music produced the album Now Again for Albany Records, featuring compositions by Bernard Rands.

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Sounds of the Circle

A new evening-length suite by master jazz musician Odean Pope evokes the “distinctive sonic environment” of North Philadelphia and the mid-20th-century innovators who helped build Philadelphia’s jazz legacy.

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Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark

The Philadelphia premiere of The Yellow Shark celebrates the genre-defying compositional work of maverick American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Electronic Musician King Britt

Electronic musician and DJ King Britt describes how his practice has evolved since receiving the Pew Fellowships ten years ago, the best advice he has ever received, and more

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