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New York City, July 9th and 10th, 2008

27 members of Philadelphia's arts community joined PMP, PCAH, and Pew Trusts staff for a one-night trip to New York City to attend a performance of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's iconic opera Die Soldaten, presented as part of the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival. Steven Sloane conducted the 110-piece Bochumer Symphoniker and its extensive percussion section, along with a jazz combo and 40 singers, actors and dancers. This spectacular production, directed by David Pountney, sent the audience literally traveling on train-like tracks along the length of a narrow, 220-foot long stage, achieving a sense of intimacy and immersion inside the cavernous Park Avenue Armory.

Ever hungry for live music, PMP hosted four "run-out" trips to New York City to attend a variety of performances during the 2007–2008 season.

New York City, July 26–29, 2007

From July 26–29, trip participants attended six symposia on a broad spectrum of artistic and administrative topics; five performances encompassing multiple disciplines; and took a tour of Richard Serra's sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of the artistic symposia attended by the group were curated by the Lincoln Center Festival: a discussion between choreographer Frédéric Flamand and architect Liz Diller (of Diller Scofidio + Renfro) about intersecting aesthetics in dance and architecture, as explored in Flamand's "Metapolis II;" and George Benjamin, composer of "Into the Little Hill," discussing the process of bringing his first opera to the stage.

New York City, April 14, 2007

Eight leaders and artists from Philadelphia' nonprofit music community joined PMP staff in New York City at Columbia University's Miller Theatre for the second installment in their "Pocket Concerto"commissioning project. Inspired by the example of such masterpieces as György Ligeti's Piano Concerto, the project aims to commission 12 new works for soloist and sinfonietta over three years.

New York City, January 22, 2007

PMP staff and 11 leaders of the Philadelphia music community traveled to New York City to attend the Metropolitan Opera's production of "The First Emperor," the latest work by celebrated Chinese composer Tan Dun, who is known for uniting Asian musical traditions with the avant-garde.

Ever hungry for live music, PMP hosted four "run-out" trips to New York City to attend a variety of performances during the 2007–2008 season.

New York City, July 12 –16, 2006

PMP’s annual large-scale professional development trip took about twenty leaders from the area’s music and arts community to New York for a whirlwind trip including four performances, four related panel discussions, and a tour of public art on Coney Island.

During the first week of April 2006, PMP took two “runout” trips to innovative music events. Both events focused on the rising influence of electronics in concert music. The first, on Tuesday, April 4, was the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, cleverly nicknamed PLOrk. The second, on Thursday, April 6, was “New Strategies with DJ Spooky,” an evening of diverse, mostly solo acts, curated by the young deejay.

New York City, June 9th, 2006

As part of its efforts to expose local artistic leadership to interdisciplinary projects, PMP brought a group to attend a performance of the "Mandance Project" by Ballet Tech, a tuition-free public ballet school founded by choreographer Eliot Feld. The program featured special guests So Percussion and was held at the Joyce Theater in New York.

New York City, July 13–16, 2005

PMP hosted its annual professional development field trip in New York in July, this year attending several events within the Lincoln Center Festival 2005. Comprised of about twenty-five leaders of the Greater Philadelphia music community, the group enjoyed three days of performances, discussions, and networking opportunities.

On three evenings during the spring of 2005, PMP hosted trips to performances of the Ridge Theater’s production of Harry Partch’s Oedipus, VisionIntoArt’s A Tough Line, and Ensemble Intercontemporain’s performance of Benedict Mason’s ChaplinOperas.

New York City, December 3, 2004

PMP’s staff was joined by eight representatives of Greater Philadelphia’s contemporary music community for a performance of Lost Objects, part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Lenox, Massachusetts, August 12–17, 2004

Seven representatives of Philadelphia-based contemporary music organizations attended the Tanglewood Music Center’s 2004 Festival of Contemporary Music, enjoying performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Meridian Arts Ensemble, New Fromm Players and Tanglewood Music Center Fellows with guest artists Dawn Upshaw, Lucy Shelton and André Watts. The group also held roundtable discussions with featured composers and Tanglewood administrators.

New York City, March 10–13, 2004

Twenty-seven representatives of Philadelphia’s music community traveled to New York to attend performances of the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, a Jazz Organ Summit at the Iridium Jazz Club, Fiesta Mexicana: Masters of Mexican Music, presented by the World Music Institute at Town Hall, and Sweeney Todd at the New York City Opera. Participants also enjoyed several panel discussions with distinguished musicians, presenters, and other arts professionals.

New York City, December 7–10, 2002

Thirty participants in PMP’s third professional development field trip to New York City attended performances at the Metropolitan Opera, the Kitchen, and the Village Vanguard and took part in discussions with a diverse group of composers, performing artists, arts administrators, and grant makers.

New York City, October 19–21, 2001

Twenty-four Philadelphia musicians and arts professionals attended a tribute concert to Iannis Xenakis by the Ensemble Sospeso at Miller Theatre and a celebration of jazz saxophonist Jimmy Heath’s 75th birthday at Lincoln Center. Participants also took part in a roundtable discussion about the role of contemporary music in the arts community and building audiences for new music.

New York City, January 14–15, 2001

The Philadelphia Music Project’s first professional development trip brought 19 individuals representing fourteen area music organizations, Settlement Music School, and The Pew Charitable Trusts to New York City to attend a concert reflecting the diversity of New York’s music community, a follow-up symposium entitled “Post classical music and the changing marketplace,” and a discussion on the genesis of the “Great Day in New York” Series and programming philosophies.