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Catherine Lamb’s “Curvo Totalitas”

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present Yarn/Wire performing the Philadelphia premiere of Catherine Lamb's "Curvo Totalitas". On the score, Lamb describes the piece: "Synthesizer musicians play their material (which are filtered partials of the percussion recordings) in an unforced manner. Melodic contours unfold slowly, relative to the total time. Tones in contours may occassionally be articulated…

$12 – $20
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Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Held in the Belgian spring and summer of 1958, the Brussels Exposition was the apogee of World’s Fairs. With its slogan “evaluation of the world for a more humane world” celebrating a new post-war optimism about technology and progress, it was also full of the contradictions of the age, and was equally a celebration of…

$8 – $12

Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present Matt Davis' Aerial Photograph at The Rotunda. The ensemble will perform Davis' recent compositional suite, The Sway of Rivers, exploring the elusive nature of time: how it is inconsistently felt, marked, and expressed in sound. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Established in 2002, Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph is a “wildly imaginative” (Jazziz…

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Ensemble Terrain

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present Ensemble Terrain (Theo Bleckmann, Jodie Landau, Ashley Bathgate, and Jacob Cooper) performing selections from Jacob Cooper's acclaimed album "Terrain" (Amsterdam Records, 2020).  "Terrain" displays Cooper’s passion for kinetic collaboration. He worked intensively with three poets who created original text for each work, and developed the music alongside vocalists Theo Bleckmann…

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LIGAMENT

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo Ligament. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high…

$12 – $20

Laraaji Returns

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to bring Laraaji back to our home venue at University Lutheran performing for a second improvised solo piano set this season. ABOUT THE ARTIST Philadelphia-born, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern…

$12 – $20

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Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Karl Larson performing work from the recently released album Dark Days featuring solo piano compositions of Scott Wollschleger. Dark Days chronicles Scott's solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020. Aspects of style that are heard on his first album Soft Aberration are present again, but now filtered through…

$12 – $20
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TAK Ensemble

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present the TAK Ensemble in Philadelphia. Painting a portrait of new American composition through intensely virtuosic and visceral works TAK Ensemble will perform works by Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, Ashkan Behzadi, Erin Gee, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, and David Bird.   PROGRAM Tyshawn Sorey: Ornations Natacha Diels: Second Nightmare for KIKU Ashkan Behzadi:…

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Ikue Mori + Charmaine Lee

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present Ikue Mori and Charmaine Lee at The Rotunda for an evening featuring solos from each artist as well as a duo performance.   ABOUT THE ARTISTS Since her emergence in New York’s No Wave scene in the late 1970s as a percussionist in DNA, Japanese native Ikue Mori has used…

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Sacred & Profane

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal group Variant 6 at University Lutheran performing "Sacred & Profane" - madrigals in a kaleidoscope of texts and sounds: medieval prayers set by Benjamin Britten, a Dowland song deconstructed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, traditional Berber chants arranged by Edith Canat de Chizy, and a set of madrigals in the exuberant…

$15 – $35

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John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the first evening Adam Tendler will be performing "Sonatas and Interludes", John Cage’s groundbreaking cycle for prepared piano. The work was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage’s introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both…

$12 – $20

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Wolff: Fantail + Schumann: Carnaval

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the second evening Adam Tendler will perform FANTAIL, a new work by iconic American composer Christian Wolff. Commissioned by the pianist, FANTAIL is a 22 movement, unofficial response to Robert Schumann's Carnaval, and like Schumann’s legendary set, a tour of Wolff’s…

$12 – $20