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Riding the Double Decker Music Series
David Patrick Stearns rode the Double Decker Music Series, the concert bus tour Sebastian Petsu started in 2013 and now runs with us. He noted that our call for musicians drew more…
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Samuel Beckett: Words and Music, on WHYY
WHYY talked with Dustin Hurt and Pig Iron’s Dan Rothenberg about Words and Music, Morton Feldman’s score for a Samuel Beckett radio play, performed by our new Arcana New Music Ensemble with…
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The Music of Moondog, reviewed
David Patrick Stearns reviewed The Music of Moondog, our retrospective with the just-formed Arcana New Music Ensemble at the Rotunda, “with every seat filled.” As it appeared in print in The Philadelphia…
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Arcana’s debut among the summer picks
Peter Dobrin’s summer preview recommended our Moondog program at the Rotunda on June 17, the debut of the Arcana New Music Ensemble, one of nine concerts we presented that summer. Read “Classical…
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Prisoner’s Song at the Rotunda
Shaun Brady previewed Prisoner’s Song, a performance piece about the power of song for people behind bars, at our free concert at the Rotunda. Read “Performance piece at Rotunda explores song’s power…
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Our Julius Eastman concerts, 2015’s most explosive discovery
In his look back at the year in classical music, David Patrick Stearns named our October focus on Julius Eastman the year’s “most explosive discovery,” writing that the force behind Eastman’s music…
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Sounding Christ Church, in Metro
Metro Philadelphia previewed Sounding Christ Church, our free concert in which Chris Forsyth (acoustic guitar) and Jesse Kudler (pipe organ) improvised with the acoustics of historic Christ Church after two months spent…
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Reviving Julius Eastman’s music, on WHYY
Peter Crimmins wrote about Dustin Hurt piecing together Julius Eastman’s scores from surviving fragments, ahead of a concert at the Rotunda for four pianists that builds to 24 hands. A Pew Center…
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Our search for Julius Eastman, in The Inquirer
David Patrick Stearns wrote about how Dustin Hurt kept encountering Julius Eastman while researching Cage and Feldman, ahead of our concert at the Rotunda and panel at the Slought Foundation. Only three…
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WRTI on resurrecting Julius Eastman
In a report for WRTI, David Patrick Stearns talked with Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, ahead of our two Julius Eastman events on October 16 and 17. Hurt estimated Eastman’s whole output…
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