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  • Tudor & Cage

    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present percussionist Stuart Jackson performing David Tudor's Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics (1991). This late electro-acoustic work, originally composed for percussionist Michael Pugliese, exists not as a traditional score but as a set of materials, circuits, and performance practices developed through experimentation. Frictional gestures—scraping, rubbing, sustained contact—activate microphones and transducers, creating…

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  • David Tudor: Bandoneon!

    URBN Annex screening room 3401 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present a free screening of Bandoneon! (a combine), a documentary about David Tudor's groundbreaking 1966 performance, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Julie Martin. Bandoneon! was Tudor's first full concert work as a composer, performed as part of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering—a legendary collaboration between ten New York artists and…

    Free - reservations encouraged

  • Tudor Piano

    University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Adam Tendler in a solo performance of works by Christian Wolff, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Henry Cowell, Morton Feldman, John Cage, and others. Before David Tudor became renowned for his pioneering electronic compositions, he was celebrated as one of the most fearless and virtuosic interpreters of experimental piano music. Throughout the…

    $15 – $25

  • AT 100 – Earle Brown and Morton Feldman

    Icebox Project Space 1400 N. American St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird presents the Arcana New Music Ensemble in a centenary celebration of Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, two pioneering American composers born in 1926 whose radical experiments in the 1950s and 60s transformed how music could be notated, performed, and experienced. Brown's selections represent his most radical period of graphic notation. December 1952 and Four…

    $15 – $25

  • Curating David Tudor

    Zoom Webinar

    Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with Nancy Perloff and Ron Kuivila, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. Nancy Perloff, curator at the Getty Research Institute, oversees the David Tudor Papers, one of the most significant archives of experimental music in the 20th century. Ron Kuivila, Professor of Music at…

    Free - registration required

  • Rainforest & Composers Inside Electronics

    Zoom Webinar

    Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein are founding members of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), a collaborative group formed in 1973 that has been central to the evolution and continuation of David Tudor's Rainforest…

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  • Postal Pieces 2.0

    University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing Postal Pieces 2.0, the second iteration of “Postal Pieces,” a concert featuring living composers in Philadelphia and beyond composing postcard-sized works inspired by James Tenney’s unorthodox set of compositions. Tenney’s “Postal Pieces,” composed between 1954 and 1971, are a series of ten concise works…

    $15 – $25

  • David Tudor at Gate Hill

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    Zoom Webinar

    Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with Mark Davenport, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. David Tudor is largely remembered for his performances of mid-twentieth-century avant-garde piano music and his close association with John Cage, but much less is known about his personal life or the intentional artist's community he…

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  • Screening: Variations V and RainForest

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    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    David Tudor's musical partnership with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company spanned nearly five decades, from the company's founding in 1953 until Tudor's death in 1996. As a founding member, Tudor served not only as a virtuoso performer of revolutionary piano works but also as an essential collaborator in shaping the company's sonic identity. Working alongside…

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  • Performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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    Zoom Webinar

    Bowerbird is pleased to present an online conversation with John D. S. Adams, John David Fullemann, David Meschter, and Robert E. Miller, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. David Tudor's work with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company required not only innovative compositional thinking but also the technical expertise of skilled audio engineers…

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  • Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories

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    Trinity at 22nd 2212 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams performing Morton Feldman's monumental Triadic Memories, one of the towering masterworks of late 20th-century piano literature. ABOUT THE WORK Completed in 1981 and jointly dedicated to pianists Roger Woodward and Aki Takahashi, Triadic Memories is Feldman's longest solo piano composition, lasting approximately 90 minutes. Following its first…

    $15 – $30

  • Forest Speech and Piano

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    Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams and a performance of David Tudor's Forest Speech led by Composer Inside Electronic's Phil Edelstein with Daniel Fishkin, Michael Johnsen, Victoria Keddie, Eugene Lew, and Gianna Santucci. This concert celebrates David Tudor's dual legacy as both a revolutionary pianist and electronic music pioneer. The program opens with…

    $15 – $30

  • Tudor works for Live Electronics

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    Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present Composers Inside Electronics—Phil Edelstein, Ron Kuivila, and Michael Johnsen, with Daniel Fishkin—performing works by David Tudor. Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), formed in 1973 with David Tudor, pioneered a collaborative approach to live electronic music that treated circuits and components as instruments in themselves rather than as tools. This closing concert…

    $15 – $30

  • Screening: Cunningham Ballett and Channels/Inserts

    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    David Tudor's musical partnership with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company spanned nearly five decades, from the company's founding in 1953 until Tudor's death in 1996. As a founding member, Tudor served not only as a virtuoso performer of revolutionary piano works but also as an essential collaborator in shaping the company's sonic identity. Working alongside…

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  • Solo and Chamber Music of Elliott Carter

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    The Perch 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing solo and chamber music of Elliott Carter. PROGRAM: Two Thoughts About the Piano Figment V for marimba Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II Epigrams Enchanted Preludes Gra for clarinet Canon for 4 ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Anna Lim - violin Tom Kraines - cello Nic Handahl…

    $15 – $25

  • Audra

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    University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bowerbird is pleased to present Audra performing an evening of music for voice and saxophone, featuring Meredith Monk’s Hocket for Two Voices, two moody folk-song arrangements by Karin Rehnqvist, Cecilia McDowall’s dramatic White Fox Woman, Thomas Kessler’s Cage-inspired Is it?, Gelsey Bell’s spacious Avatrix, and Griffin Candey’s love songs, I Shall Be Coming Back To…

    $15 – $25

  • Alash Ensemble

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    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    **Please note: The performance starts at 2:00pm. Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Doors will open at 1:15pm. RSVPing helps us to anticipate attendance but does not guarantee entry. If you RSVP but do not check in by 1:50pm, we may give your…

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  • Alash Ensemble

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    The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    **Please note: The performance starts at 7:00pm. Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Doors will open at 6:15pm. RSVPing helps us to anticipate attendance but does not guarantee entry. If you RSVP but do not check in by 6:50pm, we may give your…

    pay what you wish