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Diversity, equity, and inclusion continue to be at the center of Orchestra 2001's programming, aimed at eliminating barriers to attendance by keeping admission “pay-as-you- wish” or free, to offer high quality concerts in neighborhoods across dozens of local zip codes that have been underserved by classical music concerts.
We’ve had many exciting and innovative collaborations in 2022 with Esperanza Arts, American Hats Factory, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Lyric Fest, and we are happy to announce that we will remain as Ensemble-In-Residence at Cherry Street Pier for a fifth year!
We invite you to collaborate with us in the next season, in a way that is meaningful to you, including following us on social or forwarding our emails to share upcoming concerts with your networks.
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There is still time to make a tax-deductible gift in 2022:
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ENGOMA ENTEERA: Classical Music from Uganda
Throughout 2023 and 2024, we will be joined by the husband-wife team of composer Justinian Tamusuza and leading African ethnomusicologist, Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza. Funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, they will share a cross-continental, virtual/live composer residency from their home in Uganda, prior to visiting Philadelphia in 2024.
Described as “an African Bartók,” Justinian was trained in both Kiganda (Ugandan) folk music and Western classical music, and received his doctoral degree in composition at Northwestern University, before returning to Uganda. He will compose several new pieces for our ensembles, using extended instrumental techniques, microtones, and polyrhythms that marry contemporary classical music and traditional Kiganda folk music.
This “Composer At Work” collaboration will be shared via Zoom with communities across the city, with Play On Philly, and in live concerts at venues including the Barnes Foundation and Cherry Street Pier. A 2024 live-streamed concert from the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and Paul will be shared with audiences in Kampala, Uganda.
Stay tuned for more information about our first public concert for this exciting series (early April 2023), conducted by Na’Zir McFadden.
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A famed composer claimed by two countries... the new Sergei Prokofiev International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine, newly opened in 2012 (left) and three years later (right).
As part our award-winning EMERGING MARKETS series funded by PNC Arts Alive, we will present music at Northeast Philadelphia markets by 20th- and 21st-century composers from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Hungary, and Poland, in honor of 2022 Nobel Peace Prize peacemakers from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
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In Spring 2023, we will present the local premiere of the iconic Miles Davis/Gil Evans Birth of the Cool fusion of mid-century jazz and classical genres, approximately 75 years after the music’s creation. The history of this ground-breaking musical hybrid was relayed directly by Orchestra 2001 guest composer/conductor and original Birth of the Cool musician, the late Gunther Schuller, who described its evolution during informal sessions with classical and jazz artists in the late 1940s, in Gil Evans’ basement apartment. The results forged new directions for jazz and classical music that influenced decades of artists in concert halls, jazz clubs, and film scores.
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Supported by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, GEORGE CRUMB: SCORES AT AN EXHIBITION will explore Philadelphia’s well-known contemporary composer (1929-2022) and long-time Orchestra 2001 collaborator, in a visual arts setting. These stunning visual scores are works of art, and presenting them in a gallery context allows for a more complete appreciation of these masterpieces. Exhibits of Crumb’s scores will be followed by performances of several of his chamber music works at the Slought Foundation, Esperanza Arts, and Cherry Street Pier.
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Exhibits of Crumb’s scores will be followed by performances of several of his chamber music works at the Slought Foundation, Esperanza Arts, and Cherry Street Pier. Crumb’s brilliant “Metamorphoses, 10 Fantasies for Amplified Piano, Book 2” (2020) will be performed by the performer he wrote it for, Orchestra 2001 pianist Marcantonio Barone, presented with images of the works of art that influenced Crumb’s modern take on “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
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Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black (Paul Klee, 1925)
Landscape with Yellow Birds (Paul Klee, 1923)
Christina's World (Andrew Wyeth, 1948)
Purple Haze (Simon Dinnerstein, 1991)
Lady in Gold; Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Gustav Klimt, 1907)
Spirit of the Dead Watching (Paul Gauguin, 1892)
Guernica (Pablo Picasso, 1937)
From the Faraway, Nearby (Georgia O'Keeffe, 1937)
Easter (Marc Chagall, 1968)
The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh, 1889)
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Guernica (Pablo Picasso, 1937)
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