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SUPPORT FROM THE PHILDADELPHIA MUSIC PROJECT BRINGS 118 EVENTS TO THE PHILADELPHIA REGION

Nineteen local music organizations receive almost $1.2 million in funding

(Philadelphia, PA) The Philadelphia Music Project (PMP), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, has awarded $1,179,675 to 19 local music organizations in support of 118 concerts and residency programs spanning traditional and contemporary forms of classical, jazz, and world music. This year’s grants will make possible world premiere performances of 15 new compositions and Philadelphia premieres of 61 additional works. In all, nearly 1,000 instrumentalists, conductors, vocalists, and composers will participate in these funded projects; 12 ensembles and soloists will make their Philadelphia debuts.

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Feature Article

Jazz Horizons
By David Adler

Clifford BrownThe term “jazz” covers a vast and contentious aesthetic terrain, pushing musicians to new frontiers of technical excellence and creative depth. This season, the Philadelphia Music Project funds performances that highlight the music’s idiomatic range and expansive potential. The slate includes a tribute to the late trumpet master Clifford Brown; accounts of the experimental yet wholly distinct languages of Anthony Braxton, Julius Hemphill and Andrew Hill; and a residency involving Brooklyn composer-bandleader John Hollenbeck with 12 handpicked musicians representing the cream of today’s Philadelphia improvising circuit. While these offerings may suggest a chronological timeline, they do not propound a view of music as a linear progression. Rather, in jostling together the most “traditional” swing-oriented work with the most “avant-garde” outpourings, from the ’60s to the ever-unfolding present, these programs seem to say: We can have it all.

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