The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Bowerbird
CHANGE/PERSIST
2010 Grantee
$25,000
Bowerbird was awarded $25,000 for CHANGE/PERSIST, a multi-day festival featuring three meditative works composed by Morton Feldman late in his career: Three Voices performed by Joan La Barbara, Crippled Symmetry performed by Either/Or, and Feldman’s six-hour long String Quartet No. 2 performed by the FLUX Quartet. Festival programs will be produced in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Rotunda, and include a workshop led by La Barbara, a presentation on Turkish rugs (a source of inspiration for Feldman), and the development of an online mini-site with audio, photos, performer interviews, and commissioned writing by New York Times music critic Paul Griffiths.
Photo: Morton Feldman by Barbara Monk Feldman