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October 11, 2026PressWRTI on our weekend of variationsMelinda Whiting's WRTI Spotlight paired our two concerts this weekend, both built on sets of variations. John Walthausen plays Bach's Goldberg Variations on harpsichord on Friday, October 16 at University…
October 1, 2026AnnouncementsNeighborhood Sound Lab opens in October at AMLA Studios at Esperanza
September 14, 2026PressDynasty Battles talks with WRTI about Leon BatesJohn T.K. Scherch of WRTI talked with Dynasty Battles about his recital for us honoring his teacher Leon Bates, including the stories about Bates he planned to share between pieces.…September 13, 2026PressWRTI spotlights Dynasty BattlesWRTI's Fanfare spotlighted our concert with pianist Dynasty Battles honoring his mentor Leon Bates at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, noting that Battles had also performed on our Julius Eastman…
September 5, 2026From the ArchiveHappy birthday, John Cage: Noise from the 18th FloorJohn Cage was born on September 5, 1912. To mark his birthday, we're looking back at Bowerbird-Cage, the fifth edition of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage's Noise from…
June 3, 2026From the ArchiveA year ago: Dustin Hurt at the Library of CongressA year ago today, Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, gave the pre-concert talk for The Effortless Now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski at the Library of Congress. The…
May 15, 2026PressA Feldman nod in an Orchestra reviewIn his review of the Philadelphia Orchestra, David Patrick Stearns credits our concerts of Morton Feldman's music for his familiarity with the composer. Read “Review: Orchestra in extremes: Radical new…
March 17, 2026PressDavid Tudor coverage from The Philadelphia InquirerShaun Brady wrote about David Tudor's centenary for The Inquirer, drawing on the March 6 Forest Speech concert at the Community Education Center and our exhibition at the Pearlstein Gallery.…
January 15, 2026AnnouncementsDavid Tudor: A View From Inside opens at the Pearlstein GalleryDavid Tudor: A View From Inside opens today at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery and runs through March 21. Organized by Bowerbird for the centenary of Tudor's birth, the exhibition brings together…
December 4, 2025PressBlackbox Ensemble among WHYY’s weekend picksWHYY's weekend picks included our concert with BlackBox Ensemble, a New York collective founded in 2018, at University Lutheran on December 6. Read “Things to do: Philly cookie fest, a…
August 31, 2025PressLiminal States in The Inquirer’s look at sound bathsAdam Clair's story on Philadelphia's sound bath scene included our Liminal States series, programmed by Pete Angevine, noting that we have found listeners already drawn to sound baths. Read “Is…June 10, 2025From the ArchiveProgram notes for The (Effortless) Now at the Library of CongressFor The (Effortless) Now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski at the Library of Congress on June 3, 2025, presented in cooperation with Bowerbird, Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird,…
June 1, 2025PressFjord Review on last month’s Pure LuciaMerilyn Jackson of Fjord Review wrote about last month's Pure Lucia at FringeArts, where Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, paired Lucia Dlugoszewski's music with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company after…
May 19, 2025PressGreat coverage from thINKingDANCECaitlin Green reviewed the Erick Hawkins Dance Company's performance on the first night of Pure Lucia at FringeArts. She writes about two Hawkins works, Here and Now with Watchers and…
May 19, 2025PressthINKingDANCE reviews Pure LuciaCaitlin Green reviewed Pure Lucia: Quidditas Suchness, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company's program at FringeArts on May 9–10, part of our eight-event series on composer Lucia Dlugoszewski curated by Dustin…May 10, 2025FeaturesPure Lucia, Night 2: Duende Otherness — Program NotesProgram notes written and annotated by Dustin HurtMay 9, 2025FeaturesPure Lucia, Night 1: Quidditas Suchness — Program NotesProgram notes written and annotated by Dustin Hurt
May 8, 2025PressPure Lucia gets a pick from WRTIWRTI's Fanfare Weekly highlighted Pure Lucia at FringeArts as a weekend pick, calling out the Dlugoszewski centenary and Dustin Hurt's study of her music and legacy. Read the listing
April 30, 2025PressPure Lucia in Broad Street ReviewGail Obenreder included Pure Lucia in her May classical music previews for Broad Street Review. She describes the two-night series with FringeArts and lists the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Agnese…
April 23, 2025PressPure Lucia in the Pew Center’s Spring Arts GuideThe Pew Center for Arts & Heritage named Pure Lucia one of five Center-supported performances to see this spring. The guide covers the April web series and the concerts at…
March 9, 2025FeaturesLucia Dlugoszewski: A Life in SoundWritten and annotated by Dustin Hurt
April 8, 2024AnnouncementsDustin Hurt speaks at MaerzMusik’s Dlugoszewski laboratoryLast month Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, spoke at Contemplations into the Radical Others, MaerzMusik's research laboratory on composer Lucia Dlugoszewski in Berlin. The sessions looked at her estate, her…
March 28, 2024PressAl-Bustan on A Utopian StageLauren Abunassar, an Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture media fellow, wrote about A Utopian Stage, Vali Mahlouji's exhibition on the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis at Asian Arts Initiative, presented with Bowerbird,…February 16, 2024PressA Utopian Stage, on WHYYPeter Crimmins wrote about A Utopian Stage, the exhibition we presented at the Asian Arts Initiative on the Festival of Arts Shiraz-Persepolis and its political and aesthetic impact. Read “A…
January 22, 2024PressBroad Street Review on Bartók’s MonsterCameron Kelsall reviewed Bartók's Monster, our collaboration with Pig Iron School and installation artist Sebastienne Mundheim, presented by Penn Live Arts at the Annenberg Center's Harold Prince Theatre. He was…
November 26, 2023PressThree November concerts in WRTI’s FanfareBruce Hodges called us "an essential presenter in Philadelphia's new music landscape" and previewed three concerts: LIGAMENT and Peter Evans with David Taylor at University Lutheran Church, and music by…
March 21, 2023PressRaven Chacon and Jacob Cooper in conversationThe Pew Center for Arts & Heritage published a conversation between Pew Fellows Raven Chacon and Jacob Cooper about their evolving practices, noting the upcoming portrait concert of Chacon's music…
September 19, 2022AnnouncementsPew grant for our Shiraz Arts Festival projectBowerbird has received a project grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for an exhibition and live performances revisiting the Shiraz Arts Festival, held annually in Iran from…
May 11, 2022PressVariant 6 profiled in The InquirerDavid Patrick Stearns profiled the vocal sextet Variant 6, naming us among the Philadelphia organizations the ensemble works with and noting that we often present their concerts. Read “No conductor.…
March 10, 2022PressBeyond Borders in the Pew Center’s spring picksThe Pew Center for Arts & Heritage included Beyond Borders: Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis (1967–77) among its spring picks, describing our series of virtual programs and mini-symposium bringing together artists,…
October 2, 2021PressFemenine at Harlem Stage, with a nod to our Eastman festivalPreviewing Julius Eastman's Femenine at Harlem Stage with the Harlem Chamber Players and Talea Ensemble, Christopher McIntyre told Pride Index that Bowerbird organized the first major Eastman retrospective festival in…
January 28, 2021PressLiminal States in WHYY’s things to doWHYY's weekly picks recommended Liminal States, our virtual concert series to drift off to from your own bed, with Philadelphia's Jeff Zeigler performing that Sunday. Read “Icy fun in Chestnut…
January 20, 2021PressLiminal States, in The InquirerDavid Patrick Stearns wrote about Liminal States, our series of seven late-night streamed concerts with The Rotunda, made to be heard between sleeping and waking, with performers from Marilyn Nonken…
October 7, 2020PressWQXR: Bowerbird gave Eastman the performances his music deservedWriting for WQXR about how new recordings are bringing overlooked composers to light, David Patrick Stearns looked back at the revival of Julius Eastman’s music: “Festivals of his music presented…
June 1, 2020PressOur Eastman series in Curating Contemporary Music FestivalsIn his book Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation (transcript Verlag, 2020), musicologist and curator Brandon Farnsworth cites the multi-year Julius Eastman concert series organized by…
April 28, 2020PressPresser Foundation support at a critical timePeter Dobrin reported on the Presser Foundation's awards, announced early in the pandemic, naming Bowerbird among the recipients. Read “Recipients call Presser Foundation awards of more than a half million…
February 6, 2020PressOur David First portrait among the weekly picksThe Inquirer's weekly picks included our two-night portrait of composer David First at Christ Church Neighborhood House, spanning drone works, pop songs and avant-rock, and reuniting his Philly experimental punk…
December 19, 2019PressGeorge Crumb at 90 in The Inquirer’s best of 2019The Inquirer's critics included George Crumb's 90th birthday among the highlights of 2019, naming Bowerbird among the Philadelphia organizations that celebrated him. Read “Best of classical in 2019: Our critics…October 3, 2019PressZeitgeist: George Crumb at 90, previewedDavid Patrick Stearns previewed Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90, the festival we co-presented with Penn's Department of Music and the Annenberg Center, with Arcana New Music Ensemble, Margaret Leng Tan,…October 1, 2019PressPenn Almanac previews Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90Penn's Almanac previewed Zeitgeist: George Crumb at 90, the three-concert festival co-presented by Bowerbird, Penn's Department of Music and the Annenberg Center on October 10–12, 2019: Out of Darkness with…
June 5, 2019PressDouble Decker concerts in the summer 2019 picksPeter Dobrin's summer preview featured our three concerts on an open-top double-decker bus, with Ursula Rucker and Madam Data, Jaimie Branch, and Rosali and Seraiah Nicole, hosted by Sebastian Petsu.…
April 12, 2019PressBill Dietz and Supreme Connections, on WHYYPeter Crimmins wrote about the building-wide performances Bill Dietz and the collective Supreme Connections made at the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia at our…April 5, 2019PressOur spring 2019 season, in The InquirerDavid Patrick Stearns wrote about our spring 2019 season, including Perceptual Geographies, our Maryanne Amacher festival, and the premiere of Wally Gunn's Moonlite with Variant 6 and Mobius Percussion. The…
February 4, 2019PressEkmeles and Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes in the spring picksPeter Dobrin's spring preview listed our presentation of New York's Ekmeles vocal ensemble and our concert with the Penn Music Department of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, played by Amy Williams…July 5, 2018PressOur Femenine score in Austin, in SightlinesJeanne Claire van Ryzin of Sightlines previewed the Austin Chamber Music Festival's free performance of Julius Eastman's Femenine at the George Washington Carver Museum. Composer Russell Reed explains that Mary…
May 21, 2018PressInside Bowerbird: a Q&A with Dustin HurtThe Pew Center for Arts & Heritage interviewed Dustin Hurt, founder and director of Bowerbird, for its Questions of Practice series. He talked about Sound Machines, our U.S. premiere of…May 17, 2018PressWRTI talks with Dustin Hurt about Zwei-Mann-OrchesterDebra Lew Harder of WRTI visited Kagel's Zwei-Mann-Orchester at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery, a sculpture played by two performers inside it, and talked with Dustin Hurt about bringing it to Philadelphia.…May 10, 2018PressRecreating Kagel’s 1973 orchestra, on WHYYJen Kinney reported for WHYY on our production of Zwei Mann Orchester, only the fourth ever and the first in the United States, with guitarist Wilhelm Brück, who worked on…May 8, 2018PressBilly Penn on our Rube Goldberg-like orchestraShaun Brady wrote for Billy Penn about the U.S. premiere of Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, the centerpiece of Sound Machines at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery. Dustin Hurt describes finding the score…May 8, 2018PressSound Machines in Broad Street ReviewBenjamin Safran wrote about Sound Machines, our staging of Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery, with percussionists Andy Thierauf and Ashley Tini performing on a sculpture built by…May 7, 2018PressZwei Mann Orchester is a hot ticketDavid Patrick Stearns wrote about Sound Machines, our production of Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, performed by Ashley Tini and Andy Thierauf on a 210-instrument sculpture at Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery.…
May 2, 2018PressVillage Voice: Nine Beginnings for Julius EastmanSasha Frere-Jones wrote for the Village Voice about the wave of attention to Julius Eastman in 2018, including the four-piano performance at the Knockdown Center that was part of That…
April 1, 2018PressSame Difference: Malik Gaines on Julius Eastman, in ArtforumIn Artforum's April 2018 issue, Malik Gaines wrote about Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, the exhibition and concert series presented in Philadelphia at Slought and The Rotunda in 2017…
March 23, 2018AnnouncementsGay Guerrilla for 16 electric guitars opens MaerzMusik’s Eastman projectA version of Julius Eastman's Gay Guerrilla for 16 electric guitars by Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, was performed at the opening concert of We Have Delivered Ourselves from the…
February 22, 2018PressEastman’s catalog finds a publisherAnnouncing that Music Sales had acquired worldwide publishing rights to Julius Eastman's catalog, the publisher cited the recent celebrations of his music, including Bowerbird in Philadelphia and Julius Eastman: That…
January 29, 2018PressA Critic’s Pick for That Which Is Fundamental in New YorkZachary Woolfe of The New York Times named Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental a Critic's Pick and called it an essential festival, organized by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Dustin…
January 25, 2018PressAlex Ross’s Miscellany notes That Which Is FundamentalIn a roundup on his blog The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross noted that That Which Is Fundamental, the Julius Eastman festival from Bowerbird and The Kitchen, was under way…
January 19, 2018PressThat Which Is Fundamental comes to The KitchenSeth Colter Walls of The New York Times wrote about Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental at The Kitchen in New York, a three-week festival modeled on our Philadelphia retrospective…
January 18, 2018PressNational Sawdust previews That Which Is Fundamental at The KitchenDavid Menestres of National Sawdust's The Log previewed the New York edition of Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental at The Kitchen, which Bowerbird first presented in Philadelphia in May…
November 9, 2017PressPhiladelphia’s musical future, by David Patrick StearnsDavid Patrick Stearns pointed to our Julius Eastman festival as part of Philadelphia's musical future and called flutist Emma Resmini "the latest discovery by Bowerbird" before her free Rotunda recital.…
May 17, 2017PressHyperallergic on That Which Is FundamentalTed Dodson wrote for Hyperallergic about Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, the Bowerbird production in Philadelphia, from the opening concert of Stay On It and Femenine at The Rotunda…
May 9, 2017PressThat Which is Fundamental, on WHYYKimberly Haas wrote about That Which is Fundamental, our two-part Julius Eastman retrospective with the Slought Foundation. Read “Setting right a composer's 'unjust malaise'” in WHYY.
May 4, 2017PressPhiladelphia Gay News on That Which Is FundamentalPhiladelphia 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…
May 3, 2017PressMetro looks back at Julius EastmanMetro 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…February 17, 2017PressOur Rotunda concerts, in a piece on alternative venuesWriting about modern music in alternative venues, David Patrick Stearns pointed to our concerts at the Rotunda as an example of the trend. Read “Manayunk's secret performance-space gem hosts Orchestra…January 30, 2017PressOur move to University LutheranA.D. Amorosi wrote about our move to a new office and home performance space at University Lutheran Church in West Philadelphia, where Arcana gave the first concert. The piece previewed…
January 15, 2017PressAlex Ross on Julius Eastman, in The New YorkerIn 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,…
October 28, 2016PressEastman crashes the canon, in The New York TimesIn 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…
September 19, 2016PressDaniel Fishkin’s Tinnitus Suites, on WHYYJonathan 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…
September 14, 2016PressComposing the Tinnitus Suites among fall’s bestThe 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…September 14, 2016PressThe Guardian on the composer America almost forgotIn 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…September 1, 2016PressRiding the Double Decker Music SeriesDavid 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…
June 23, 2016PressSamuel Beckett: Words and Music, on WHYYWHYY 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…June 12, 2016PressArcana’s debut among the summer picksPeter 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.…
March 15, 2016PressPrisoner’s Song at the RotundaShaun 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…
November 5, 2015PressSounding Christ Church, in MetroMetro 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…October 16, 2015PressReviving Julius Eastman’s music, on WHYYPeter 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…October 13, 2015PressOur search for Julius Eastman, in The InquirerDavid 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.…
October 12, 2015PressWRTI on resurrecting Julius EastmanIn 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…July 21, 2015PressArcher Spade’s Spectrum, and our early yearsIn his story on Archer Spade's Spectrum festival, Shaun Brady recalled that when Dan Blacksberg and Nick Millevoi started out in the mid-2000s, we were hosting several concerts a week.…
July 3, 2015PressRiding the Double Decker with King BrittEllen Chenoweth of thINKingDANCE rode along for the June 28 Double Decker Bus Series concert with King Britt and Keir Neuringer, part of the series we produce with tour guide…June 15, 2015AnnouncementsPew grant for In Search of EastmanBowerbird has received a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for In Search of Eastman, a discovery project exploring how to present the work of composer Julius…
June 1, 2015AnnouncementsBowerbird to present Facing Front: the duets of Burrows and FargionThis month Bowerbird co-produces Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, a two-week retrospective of the European duo's 13-year collaboration, curated by Anna Drozdowski with support from…May 27, 2015PressThe Double Decker Music Series rolls outShaun Brady previewed the Double Decker Music Series, five concerts on the open upper deck of a moving tour bus that we host with tour guide and sound artist Sebastian…
December 14, 2014Press14 Sequenzas named 2014’s most daring presentationIn his year-end roundup, David Patrick Stearns named 14 Sequenzas, coproduced by Bowerbird, the most daring presentation of classical music of 2014. Read “The year in classical music: New music,…
October 17, 2014PressAssemblage at International HouseThe Inquirer's listings included our screening of Assemblage, a recently rediscovered 1968 film of Merce Cunningham and his early company, at International House. Read “Performance and classical music listings” in…September 20, 2014Press14 Sequenzas, reviewed by David Patrick StearnsDavid Patrick Stearns reviewed 14 Sequenzas, the FringeArts staging of Berio's solo Sequenzas that we coproduced with A Change of Harp. Harpist Elizabeth Morgan-Ellis's installation let the audience move freely…July 21, 2014PressGirls Rock Philly at The Gate, on WHYYPeter Crimmins wrote about the teenagers of Girls Rock Philly playing their homemade electronic instruments in a free concert at the Rotunda as part of our series The Gate. Read…
March 11, 2014PressJACK Quartet’s Xenakis, reviewedDavid Patrick Stearns reviewed the JACK Quartet's performance of all four Xenakis string quartets in a single program on our series at the Rotunda. Read “A rare quartet of Xenakis…January 11, 2014PressMerilyn Jackson on Eleanor Bauer’s returnMerilyn Jackson wrote that Thirdbird and Bowerbird had been bringing innovative and often brilliant artists to Philadelphia for years, and reviewed the return of dancer Eleanor Bauer. Read “Expertly danced…
January 22, 2013PressLooking back on Cage: Beyond SilenceDavid Patrick Stearns looked back on Cage: Beyond Silence as it closed. He wrote that its biggest legacy was the experimental artists, like Bhob Rainey, that the festival drew out…
November 30, 2012PressCage’s Song Books in WHYY’s holiday guideWHYY's holiday guide picked part two of Cage: Beyond Silence, The Year Begins to be Ripe: Song Books, built around Cage's two-volume collection of 89 short solos. Read “Holiday Entertainment…November 27, 2012PressShaun Brady on Cage: Beyond SilenceShaun Brady wrote about Cage: Beyond Silence, opened by Margaret Leng Tan and produced with the Art Museum's Dancing Around the Bride exhibition. Dustin Hurt explained that the festival is…November 27, 2012PressA listener’s guide to our Cage festivalThis guide to listening through our Cage festival opened with Dustin Hurt on Cage's impact: "you have to talk in terms of music before Cage and music after Cage." Read…
November 2, 2012PressCage: Beyond Silence in WHYY’s November guideWHYY's weekly guide featured Cage: Beyond Silence again, describing the festival honoring the centenary of John Cage's birth and the 20th anniversary of his death, held at venues across the…October 28, 2012PressMargaret Leng Tan plays Sonatas and InterludesThe Inquirer's weekly picks highlighted our citywide Cage celebration, including Margaret Leng Tan performing Sonatas and Interludes on prepared piano at the Curtis Institute. Read “Regional arts and entertainment events”…October 26, 2012PressCage: Beyond Silence opens, in WHYY’s weekly guideWHYY's weekly guide picked the opening of Cage: Beyond Silence, with Margaret Leng Tan playing Cage's film music at the Art Museum's Art After 5, followed by a trombone and…October 21, 2012PressCage: Beyond Silence, previewed in The InquirerDavid Patrick Stearns previewed Beyond Silence, our 21-event John Cage festival running through January 20 in and around the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dustin Hurt talked about Cage's reputation, and…October 8, 2012PressSound Sculptures among the DesignPhiladelphia picksPlanPhilly's DesignPhiladelphia picks included Sound Sculptures, our downloadable audio tour of public artworks from the Redevelopment Authority's Percent for Art Program, calling it a fresh take on the collection. Read…September 18, 2012PressThe Cage centenary at the Art Museum, on WHYYPeter Crimmins reported on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Cage-centered exhibition and our partnership with the museum on a series of Cage concerts at venues around the city. Read “Celebrating…April 4, 2012PressA Pew grant for our Cage festivalStephan Salisbury reported on the 2012 Pew grants for music, including $70,000 to Bowerbird for a two-part festival of John Cage's music scheduled for late 2012 and early 2013. Read…March 29, 2012PressOur Cage festival with the Art Museum, announcedPeter Dobrin reported that we would coproduce a John Cage festival alongside the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Dancing Around the Bride exhibition, with about 18 Cage-focused concerts at the museum…January 23, 2012PressThirdbird takes flight, in The InquirerMerilyn Jackson wrote about Thirdbird, the new music-and-dance "wing" of Ladybird and Bowerbird directed by Anna Drozdowski and Dustin Hurt, which brings movers and music makers together in sometimes out-of-the-way…
September 19, 2011PressDavid Patrick Stearns on More Mouvements für LachenmannDavid Patrick Stearns reviewed Xavier Le Roy's More Mouvements für Lachenmann with members of Klangforum Wien. He thanked us for presenting something rarely seen outside Vienna or Berlin. Read “Sight…September 17, 2011PressMerilyn Jackson on More Mouvements für LachenmannMerilyn Jackson reviewed Xavier Le Roy's More Mouvements für Lachenmann, which we brought to that year's Live Arts Festival with eight musicians including members of Klangforum Wien. She called it…June 14, 2011PressFlux Quartet’s six-hour Feldman finaleDavid Patrick Stearns reviewed the Flux Quartet's six-hour performance of Feldman's String Quartet II, the finale of American Sublime. He wrote that the festival's venues, performances and program notes made…June 6, 2011PressAmerican Sublime’s opening, reviewedDavid Patrick Stearns reviewed the opening of American Sublime, our eight-day Morton Feldman festival, with Marilyn Nonken playing the 100-minute Triadic Memories at Rodeph Shalom. He noted that it was…June 1, 2011PressA sublime encore for Morton Feldman, in MetroMetro Philadelphia previewed American Sublime, our weeklong festival of Morton Feldman's late music, with eight concerts of works from 1977 to 1987, most heard in Philadelphia for the first time.…May 29, 2011PressAmerican Sublime previewed in The InquirerDavid Patrick Stearns previewed American Sublime, our Morton Feldman festival, as one of three major new-music events coming to Philadelphia. The festival opened with Marilyn Nonken playing Triadic Memories and…March 19, 2011PressNoh theater’s first visit to Philadelphia, on WHYYWHYY covered the first Japanese Noh theater performance in Philadelphia, which we presented. Dustin Hurt spoke about how works so open to interpretation could be seen in a new light.…March 18, 2011PressEnsemble N_JP scores OnibabaThe Inquirer's listings picked our free Rotunda concert by Gene Coleman's Ensemble N_JP, which performed a live score to the classic Japanese film Onibaba. Read “Here's the lineup on Philadelphia-area…March 8, 2011PressA.D. Amorosi on Blindspot’s avant-garde organA.D. Amorosi wrote about Blindspot, the festival that teamed our experimental concerts with Anna Drozdowski's Ladybird events at Christ Church. He noted how the pairing gave artists room to stretch…February 25, 2011PressBlindspot in the Inquirer listingsThe Inquirer's listings picked Blindspot, our festival with Ladybird around Christ Church's pipe organ, with performers including Marshall Allen and Farid Barron, Tony Conrad and the Dufala Brothers, running through…February 23, 2011PressBlindspot, previewed by Molly EichelMolly Eichel previewed Blindspot, our festival at Christ Church in Old City built around the church's pipe organ. She described it as a new collaboration between Dustin Hurt of Bowerbird…February 18, 2011PressGraham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet and Weyes Blood at the RotundaThe Inquirer's weekly music picks included our free Rotunda concert with Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet, who build environmental sound collages from electronics and tape loops, with avant-folk singer Weyes…December 17, 2010PressThree duos at the Rotunda, in the Inquirer listingsThe Inquirer's listings picked our night of three duos at the Rotunda: Architeuthis Walks On Land (viola and bassoon), turntablist Maria Chavez with audio engineer Daniel Neumann, and Jesse Kudler…December 3, 2010PressSullender, Cater and Murayama at the Powel HouseThe Inquirer's listings picked our concert at the Powel House Museum with the banjo and harmonica duo of Woody Sullender and Seamus Cater, percussionist Seijiro Murayama, and trombonist Dan Blacksberg…
September 24, 2010From the ArchiveProgram notes: Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak, American premiereFor the American premiere of Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak in Philadelphia on September 24, 2010, the program included an essay tracing Radigue’s path from musique concrète and feedback loops to her…March 19, 2009PressOur first Philadelphia Cultural Fund grantStephan Salisbury reported on the Philadelphia Cultural Fund's 2009 grants, naming Bowerbird among the 15 organizations receiving support from the fund for the first time. Read “Phila. arts groups win…November 30, 2008PressPhilly’s experimental music circuit, in The InquirerDavid R. Adler's story on Philadelphia's underground music presenters noted that Ars Nova Workshop and Bowerbird had nourished the city's experimental music circuit for several years. The piece describes how…February 15, 2008PressFinding homes for offbeat artists, in the Daily NewsShaun Brady's feature on Philadelphia's independent presenters included Bowerbird, then less than two years old, alongside R5 Productions, Ars Nova Workshop and Crossroads Music. It described our partnership with the…February 15, 2008PressPresenting the presenters: an early profileThis roundup of the city's presenters profiled Bowerbird, founded in February 2006, as having grown from record stores and coffeehouses into art galleries and historic homes. It also listed our…September 7, 2007PressShot x Shot, Fast Citizens and Jack Wright in the Inquirer listingsThe Inquirer's weekly listings picked our triple bill at Circle of Hope: the young Philly free-jazz quartet Shot x Shot, Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Jack…July 16, 2007PressAn early Rotunda night, reviewed by David R. AdlerDavid R. Adler reviewed one of our concerts at the Rotunda, describing Bowerbird as an experimental music series in its second year that likes to show how broad "experimental" can…May 31, 2007PressOur 100th event, noted in The InquirerDavid R. Adler's preview of the Electro-Music festival pointed readers to Bowerbird, then a new concert series, which was about to host its 100th event at the Pageant:Soloveev gallery on…Nothing matches. Try another word, year or category.