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Announcing the launch of “Noise from the 18th Floor”
Center News |
Music
May 4, 2012
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces the launch of the first two episodes of its new online music program, "Noise from the 18th Floor." This program is meant to challenge our notions of music and noise with playlists that represent a range of genres, accompanied by interpretive narratives. Each program in the series is curated by a local music expert and highlights the work of the Center's constituents and grantees, helping to build awareness of our region's cultural vibrancy. Click here to listen to this program on our website.
Kevin Puts Awarded Pulitzer Prize for “Silent Night”
Media Coverage |
Music
April 19, 2012
Kevin Puts, the composer of Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts, has received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished musical composition. The Center recently awarded a grant to the Opera Company of Philadelphia, which co-comissionsed the work with the Minnesota Opera, to showcase its premiere on the East Coast.
Philadelphia Music Project April 2012 Press Release
Press Releases |
Music
April 4, 2012
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2012 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients
Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $858,430 through the Philadelphia Music Project to nine music organizations in the Philadelphia area. Three of these organizations are first-time grantees as well as first-time applicants to the program. Through PMP’s grants, internationally renowned artists representing a broad range of musical forms and styles will visit the region over the next two seasons to participate in music programs that promise to attract and inspire a wide spectrum of audiences. Some of these upcoming concerts, festivals, and staged productions revisit and draw inspiration from seminal works of the past, while many invigorate long-standing musical traditions by crossing genres or looking to new models of presentation and performance.
Philadelphia Music Project 2012 Press Release PDF >
Philadelphia Music Project 2012 Grantee Roster PDF >
PMP Announces Revised Professional Development Grant Deadlines
Music, The Center
March 30, 2012
The Philadelphia Music Project announces revised professional development grant guidelines
PMP has revised its guidelines for professional development grants. Individual musicians, music presenters, and applied researchers in music, as well as leaders of non-profit music organizations, are now eligible to apply. Click here to view the revised guidelines.
PMP Announces Third Article in American Impresario Series
Center News |
Music, The Center
March 29, 2012
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The Philadelphia Music Project is pleased to announce the third in its series of articles under the banner American Impresario. The series will explore the careers and contributions of leading U.S. music curators whose creative work has profoundly influenced the field by giving listeners new ways to experience and understand music.
Click here to read the newly posted article on George Wein, jazz pianist and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, and many others. Cick here to read the second article on the series on David Harrington, founder and Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet. Click here to read the first article in the series, on radio producer and new music expert John Schaefer.
Photo: George Wein at the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival
Credit: LaNita Adams
PMP Grantee Dolce Suono Ensemble Reviewed in the NYTimes
Media Coverage |
Music
February 8, 2012
Philadelphia Music Project 2010 Grantee Dolce Suono Ensemble was reviewed in The New York Times. The piece performed, "Herr Gutman," was part of a larger commissioned project, "Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60," supported by PMP.
New Frontiers in Music: Curating a Great Music Festival
Center News |
Music
January 30, 2012
The Philadelphia Music Project Presents:
New Frontiers in Music: Curating a Great Music Festival
with Bill Bragin, Ashley Capps, Rob Fields, Randy Raine-Reusch, and Keith Terry
PMP Announces Second Article in American Impresario Series
Music, The Center
October 21, 2011
The Philadelphia Music Project is pleased to announce the second in its series of articles under the banner American Impresario. The series will explore the careers and contributions of leading U.S. music curators whose creative work has profoundly influenced the field by giving listeners new ways to experience and understand music. Cick here to read the newly posted article on David Harrington, founder and Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet. Click here to read the first article in the series, on radio producer and new music expert John Schaefer.
Photo: David Harrington. Credit: Jay Blakesberg
Crossing Cultures: New Frontiers in Violin Performance and Composition
Music, The Center
July 27, 2011
The Philadelphia Music Project Presents:
Crossing Cultures: New Frontiers in Violin Performance and Composition with Lewis Kahn, Diane Monroe, Anuradha Sridhar, Nick Didkovsky, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Huang Ruo
PMP Launches New Series of Articles: American Impresario
Center News |
Music, The Center
July 8, 2011
The Philadelphia Music Project is pleased to launch a new series of articles under the banner American Impresario. The series will explore the careers and contributions of leading U.S. music curators whose creative work has profoundly influenced the field by giving listeners new ways to experience and understand music. Click here to read the first article in the new series, on radio producer and new music expert John Schaefer.
Photo: John Schaefer, courtesy of www.therestisnoise.com/2007/04/djs_without_bor.html
