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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Playing and Preserving

This interdisciplinary project builds artistic collaborations and civic energy around Philadelphia’s historic sacred places and their pipe organs.

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KLANG

Elizabeth Huston presents a daylong series of chamber music compositions by pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen each written to represent an hour of the day.

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A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach: Epiphanytide

Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the second of three concert series as part of 1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach.

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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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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans

Haiti’s cultural traditions and their influence on the music of New Orleans are examined through concerts, a yearlong public radio series, an NPR-distributed radio documentary, and a multimedia website.

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Engage 2.0 Premiere Project

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented 12 performances; each featured a world or regional premiere performed by leading ensembles.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part I

Part I of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1776–1896 as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón at Symphony Space

The PRISM Quartet presents the New York performance of new works composed and performed by Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark's primary creative emphasis is the exploration of contemporary music that deals directly with advanced methods of improvisation.

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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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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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Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity

A trio of concerts from the world-acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss, tenor Mark Padmore, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and the Brentano String Quartet provided new insights on the forms of expression found in the late stages of the lives of nine great composers, including Bach, Kurtág, Mozart, and Schubert.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Freedom Rap Session Youth Panel Discussion

Hip-hop artists and scholars will explore and unpack the experience of racism through music and lyrics.

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Pew Fellows News: Rennie Harris’ New Work for Alvin Ailey Praised, James Ijames and Major Jackson Featured in New York Times, Alex Da Corte Named to “Most Influential Artists of 2018”

As 2018 comes to a close, our Pew Fellows remain active with public art, exhibitions, performances, residencies, and national press coverage. See the latest news updates in our roundup below.

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Advancement Grant: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will research and develop new business models that respond to shifting trends in audience behaviors.

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The Bach-Mendelssohn Project

In celebration of their 140th season, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia will reconstruct Felix Mendelssohn's 1841 revision of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in an American premiere at Girard College Chapel.

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Symphony for a Broken Orchestra Concerts

Temple Contemporary’s Center-funded project Symphony for a Broken Orchestra culminates in two performances on December 3

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How Sweet the Sound: Network for New Music Concert with John Harbison

Taking Harbison's Songs American Loves to Sing as inspiration, Philadelphia composers layer jazz and classical traditions to create works that tell America's story with today's voices.

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PRISM Quartet Master Class and Panel Discussion with Tim Ries, Miguel Zenón, and John Schaefer

This event features saxophonists/composers Ries and Zenón, and WNYC's John Schaefer, as they address the unique challenges of collaborating across genres.

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