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SUMMARY:The Music of Pauline Oliveros
DESCRIPTION:Please note\, this is an outdoor performance. The scheduled performance is Saturday June 13\, 7:00pm with a rain date of Sunday June 14\, 7:00pm \nBowerbird is pleased to co-present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing music of Pauline Oliveros at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer\, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers\, artists\, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation\, meditation\, electronic music\, myth and ritual. \nPROGRAM \nThe Well\nThe Gentle \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE \nMolly Germer\, violin\nCarlos Santiago\, violin\nAlyssa Almeida\, cello\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nJay Krush\, tuba\nNicholas Handahl\, flute\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion \nNOTES \nWritten between 1982-1983 and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble\, The Well and The Gentle are two of Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations – text-based\, intuitive pieces rooted in listening with minimal instructions. \nThe performance will take place at the pool house\, an outdoor space in the heart of Stoneleigh’s bucolic campus (seating provided). The garden will open at 5:30 for audience members to come early and enjoy the grounds. Feel free to bring a blanket and picnic! \nTicketing link will be available soon\n$30 – Natural Lands member ticket\n$40 – Non-member ticket\n$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)\n$10 ACCESS ticket \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer\, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers\, artists\, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation\, meditation\, electronic music\, myth and ritual. \nShe was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\,The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM\, Center for Art and Media\, Karlsruhe\, Germany and The John Cage award from from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. \nOliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Troy\, NY\, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded “Deep Listening®\,” which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition\, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life\, of nature\, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. \n“Deep Listening is my life practice\,” Oliveros explained\, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute\, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation\, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer\, Troy\, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt\, Inc. \nArcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Founded in 2015\, the chamber ensemble is dedicated to contemporary classical music performing works by living composers and to reexamine music from the past\, often focusing on composers whose work has been overlooked. A hallmark of Arcana’s programming is its frequent use of portrait concerts\, which allow the ensemble to explore a composer’s work in depth. These programs balance music by widely recognized composers with works by those who are less well known or historically underrepresented. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-pauline-oliveros-at-stoneleigh/
LOCATION:Stoneleigh: a natural garden\, 1829 County Line Road\, Villanova\, PA\, 19085\, United States
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SUMMARY:Follow The Sound
DESCRIPTION:Please note this is an outdoor performance. In case of rain\, the performance will take place Sunday June 21st. \nBowerbird is pleased to co-present Follow the Sound at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. This unique program blends a naturalist-led walk through the garden\, with particular attention focused on birds\, bugs and ‘the here and now’ of the environmental soundscape\, interspersed with site-responsive impromptu performances by trombonist Dan Blacksberg and saxophonist Andrew Urbina along the way. This will be a rare and special opportunity for deep communal listening and attunement in a beautiful setting. \nEstimated run time: 60 minutes \nTicketing link will be available soon.\nThere will be two time-slots to choose from:\n6pm start and 6:30pm start \n$30 – Natural Lands member ticket\n$40 – Non-member ticket\n$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)\n$10 ACCESS ticket \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGenre-defying and tradition-inhabiting trombonist\, improviser\, and klezmer musician Dan Blacksberg creates a vast musical universe that encompasses everything from the minute variations of a melody that power the unencumbered joy of a Yiddish Dance Party to the hair-raising extended techniques of the most avant-garde jazz and noise rock\, and most everything in between. \nAndrew Urbina (saxophone) is from the suburbs of Philadelphia and of Colombian descent. He is a freelance musician who performs and teaches throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Colombia. He earned a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory and a Masters of Music from McGill University both concentration in Jazz Studies. He also completed his PA K-12 Teaching Certification at Immaculata University. In the summer of 2008\, Andrew participated in the Banff International Workshop of Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre led by Dave Douglas in Alberta\, Canada. The following year in January 2009\, Andrew performed at the VI Panama Jazz Festival with an ensemble from New England Conservatory and later from 2012-2016\, he lived in Bogota\, Colombia and was an active performer and educator throughout the country. In January 2016\, he had the opportunity to perform with the Ida y Vuelta ensemble at the X Festival Internacional de Musica in Cartagena\, Colombia. Currently as a performer\, Andrew is an active member of the Norman David Eleventet\, U.S.E. Trio\, Phantasma\, BeUs Quartet and performs regularly with various groups throughout the greater Philadelphia area. He is also an active and passionate educator and has worked in many educational settings such as La Universidad Sergio Arboleda\, McGill University\, PA Governor’s School of the Arts\, and Bala Cynwyd Middle School. He currently is a Music Teacher at Radnor Middle School where he teaches concert band\, jazz band\, general music and music technology. \n\nOrganized in collaboration with World Askew and funded in part by PECO\, Team Pennsylvania\, and Pennsylvania Creative Industries
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/follow-the-sound-at-stoneleigh/
LOCATION:Stoneleigh: a natural garden\, 1829 County Line Road\, Villanova\, PA\, 19085\, United States
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