FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 20th, 2020
Contact:
Adam Lesnick, Orchestra 2001 Executive Director
alesnick@orchestra2001.org / (267) 253-1061
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PHILADELPHIA: Outdoor Performances in the 9th Street Market Honor Deceased Loved Ones
“Honoring Our Ancestors” Event
“Our Market” is a community-centered, multi-layered, multi-year, public art project that focuses on supporting the immigrant vendors, business owners, and neighbors that work and reside in the 9th Street Market by offering creative community strategies to tackle the issues of gentrification, racism, displacement, and erasure.
As part of the “Our Market” Project, the "Honoring Our Ancestors" performances will be co-presented with Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia’s largest ensemble of contemporary classical music. Orchestra 2001’s “Emerging Markets” presents free musical events to diverse Philadelphia audiences where they live, shop, work, and play.
Location: On 9th Street between Washington Avenue and Ellsworth Street
Dates: The repeat performances will take place at 7:00 pm on Saturday, October 24th and Sunday, October 25th
The performances will focus on musical compositions featuring life, loss, transitions, enlightenment, and memory. The main goal for this event is to open a space of collective grieving as well as using music to bring light and honor to our loved ones as a way of elevating their spirit. We are also holding space for loved ones that have passed away due to Covid-19.
Messages and images collected by the community honoring their loved ones that have passed and are connected to the Market will be shown throughout the performances. Mark Loria will conduct Orchestra 2001 in music by composers that reflect the many cultures that are represented in the Market. Italian, Mexican, African-American, and Asian composers will include the Philadelphia premiere of Chinese composer Tan Dun’s “Prayer and Blessing for the Victims of COVID-19” featuring mezzo-soprano Hannah Ludwig.
This event is free and will be following social distancing protocols (wearing masks and keeping at least 6 feet distance from one another.)
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Orchestra 2001
Mark Loria, conductor
Michelle Angela Ortiz, host
Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
PROGRAM:
Manuel Ponce – Estrellita (Mexico)
Giacomo Puccini – Crisantemi (Italy)
Carlos Almarán – La historia de un amor (Panama)
Charles Albert Tindley – We Shall Overcome (USA)
Matt Davis, guitar
Lam Phuong – Chieu Tay Do (Vietnam)
Nhung Nguyen, voice
Ennio Morricone – Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
Matt Davis, guitar
Alain Barrière / Los Ángeles Negros – Y Volveré (France/Chile)
Miguel Angel Ortiz, voice
George Walker – Lyric for Strings (USA)
Tan Dun – Prayer and Blessing for the Victims of COVID-19 (China)
Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Juan Ramirez – from Suita Latina (Mexico/USA)
Pietro Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana (Italy)
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Violins:
Luigi Mazzocchi*
Min-Young Kim
Carlos Rubio*
Elizabeth Kaderabek
Violas:
Adriana Linares*
Nina Cottman
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Cellos:
Jesús Morales*
Ulrich Böckheler
Bass:
Douglas Mapp
Guitar:
Matt Davis
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*members of the Dalí Quartet
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HONORING OUR ANCESTORS is part of Orchestra 2001's EMERGING MARKETS concert series, supported in large part by the William Penn Foundation.
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