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Philadelphia Gay News previewed our Julius Eastman retrospective, That Which Is Fundamental, presented with The Rotunda and Slought Foundation. Co-curator Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, described first encountering Eastman’s music in 2007…

Metro Philadelphia previewed Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, our retrospective with four concerts at The Rotunda and an exhibition at Slought Foundation, including modern premieres of works once thought lost. Dustin…

In The New Yorker (January 23, 2017 issue), Alex Ross wrote about the rediscovery of Julius Eastman’s music, from the book Gay Guerrilla to the Frozen Reeds recording of Femenine, noting among…

David Patrick Stearns previewed 10 Synchronisms, harpist Elizabeth Huston’s presentation of Mario Davidovsky’s works for live instruments and electronics, spread across four rooms of Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia.…

In a New York Times feature on the rediscovery of Julius Eastman, Zachary Woolfe noted that Bowerbird was in the midst of a multiyear Eastman retrospective, planning a festival for May with…

Jonathan Pfeffer wrote about composer Daniel Fishkin and Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016, the concert series we co-presented, which grew out of Fishkin’s own hearing damage. Read “How one composer’s hearing damage…

The Inquirer’s fall preview picked Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016, our four-concert series at the Rotunda built around composer Daniel Fishkin’s hearing damage and his lady’s harp of 20-foot piano wires. Read…

In a Guardian feature on Julius Eastman’s life and the search for his music, Andrew Male spoke with composer and researcher Mary Jane Leach, who pointed to Bowerbird as the young Philadelphia…