Maryanne Amacher: Adjacencies, Petra, Supreme Connections (Night Two)
Maryanne Amacher: Adjacencies, Petra, Supreme Connections (Night Two)
Philadelphia, PA
Sound, space, and psychoacoustic phenomena are explored as three different facets of Maryanne Amacher’s creative work are joined together in a single evening for the first time. The program features two of Amacher’s compositions Adjacencies (for percussion and spatialized, four-channel electronic...
Saturday, April 13 2019
7:30 PM
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10:00 PM
Ways of Hearing workshop
Ways of Hearing workshop
Philadelphia, PA
Ways of Listening is a multi-part workshop lead by the artist group Supreme Connections that explores the complexity and nuance of Maryanne Amacher’s artistic practice and her idea of “perceptual geography” as an approach to composition. These events will include in depth listening and discussion...
Saturday, April 13 2019
1:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Amacher: Adjacencies, Petra, SC (Night One) - tickets available at the door
Amacher: Adjacencies, Petra, SC (Night One) - tickets available at the door
Philadelphia, PA
Online presales have ended but tickets will be available at the door Sound, space, and psychoacoustic phenomena are explored as three different facets of Maryanne Amacher’s creative work are joined together in a single evening for the first time. The program features two of Amacher’s compositio...
Friday, April 12 2019
7:30 PM
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10:00 PM
Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction
Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction
Philadelphia, PA
Maryanne Amacher’s formative years were spent in Philadelphia. She enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, where her education was funded in part by a prestigious Senatorial Scholarship. As a music major, she studied with composer and theorist Constant Vauclain, George Rochberg and th...
Tuesday, April 9 2019
7:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Magnus Granberg and Ordinary Affects
Magnus Granberg and Ordinary Affects
Philadelphia, PA
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Philadelphia premiere of the Boston-based experimental music ensemble Ordinary Affects and a new evening length work by Magnus Granberg, a Swedish composer closely associated with the Wandelweiser movement. Of Granberg’s recent How Vain Are All Our Frail Deligh...
Thursday, April 4 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
Tickets Available at the Door John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes with Amy Williams
Tickets Available at the Door John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes with Amy Williams
Philadelphia, PA
Bowerbird, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music, is pleased to present Amy Williams 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...
Thursday, March 21 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres - Night Two
Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres - Night Two
Philadelphia, PA
Bowerbird is honored to present a two evening retrospective of pioneering composer Johanna Beyer. The first evening features her percussion music and the second evening features her chamber music. Although Beyer’s music was overlooked during her lifetime and for decades after her death, it was s...
Saturday, March 16 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres - Night One
Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres - Night One
Philadelphia, PA
Bowerbird is honored to present a two evening retrospective of pioneering composer Johanna Beyer. The first evening features her percussion music and the second evening features her chamber music. Although Beyer’s music was overlooked during her lifetime and for decades after her death, it was s...
Friday, March 15 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
Color As Time
Color As Time
Philadelphia, PA
Bowerbird is pleased to present color as time, a new project by Joshua Stamper that inhabits the blur between classical, jazz, folk, and experimental textures. Playing at the edges of the composed and the improvised, the music is inspired by Elliott Carter’s and Olivier Messiaen’s time-stretching...
Saturday, March 9 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
Strange City: The Music of Claude Vivier
Strange City: The Music of Claude Vivier
Philadelphia, PA
The music of the Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) combines diverse influences–from the the cerebral constructions of the European avant-garde to exoticist borrowings from East Asia– into a haunting and inimitable artistic voice. Vivier‘s intense and colorful music mirrors his life as a...
Saturday, February 9 2019
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
