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The Wizards of the Saxophone Meet the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Creating a 21st-Century Jazz Vocabulary

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Jan Dismas Zelenka's Lamentations for Holy Week

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Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music

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Music from a Golden Era: 17th Century Portugal and Spain

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Glass Persephone and Reich Variations

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Verizon Hall. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Philadelphia Firsts

The Wayne Shorter Quartet performing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Art After 5 series, April 23, 2010. Photo by Jason Wierzbicki.
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Wayne Shorter Commission Project

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Engage 2.0 Premiere Project

Orchestra 2001's performance of The Yellow Shark at The Fillmore Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of Orchestra 2001.
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Three Premieres!

Haijing Fu as Seikyo and Roger Honeywell as The Prince in Opera Philadelphia's production of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul. Photo by Kelly & Massa Photography.
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Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul

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Sabor Latino: A Caribbean Journey

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Roberto Sierra's Missa Latina

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Fresh Ink 2009–10 Season

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Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited

Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. Photo by Pete Checchia.
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Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra

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Month of Moderns

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The Mystical Experience

Matt Mitchell, Oscar Noriega, Tim Berne, and Ches Smith. Photo by John Rogers, courtesy of Ars Nova Workshop.
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Free/Form: Composer Portraits

Soprano Disella Larusdottir. Photo by Claire McAdams, courtesy of Astral Artists.
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Aaron Jay Kernis Residency

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, view of the Drama Wall (site 3) from a moving train. Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
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Katharina Grosse: psychylustro

Yinka Shonibare in his London studio, with sculptures featuring his signature batik cloth. Photo by James Mollison for The Wall Street Journal.
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Yinka Shonibare: Magic Ladders

Mexico City-based artists Eduardo Abaroa and Yoshua Okón speak with Philadelphia artists participating in Citywide on Trolley Day, November 2013. Photograph by Jaime Alvarez.
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Planning for Strange Currencies

Installation shot of Alien She at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University: Posters (c. 1991–present) from Riot Grrrl related shows, conventions and meetings internationally, solicited from institutional and personal archives through open calls, word-of-mouth, and invitations. Photo courtesy of the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Alien She