Grantee News: Bowerbird
| About Bowerbird: Bowerbird is a Philadelphia based non-profit organization that shares music, dance, film, and related art forms with audiences at locations across the region. Bowerbird is passionate about presenting interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music in beautiful, and unconventional music spaces. Since its inception in 2006, Bowerbird has curated over 700 events. In 2010, Bowerbird debuted with “American Sublime,” its inaugural festival dedicated to the music of Morton Feldman. Between 2015 and 2018, Bowerbird dedicated itself to the legacy of Julius Eastman, trailblazing African American avant-garde composer whose work had been largely overlooked. More recently Bowerbird has presented extensive multi concert retrospectives of Maryanne Amacher, Johanna Beyer, George Crumb, and others. In 2024, Bowerbird opened the exhibition “A Utopian Stage,” exploring the legacy of the Shiraz Arts Festival. Upcoming projects include retrospectives of composers Lucia Dlugosweski and David Tudor. For more information be sure to check out www.bowerbird.org. |
Upcoming at Bowerbird
The Chamber Music of George Walker:
Featuring Daedalus, Dynasty Battles, David Hughes, and the Arcana New Music Ensemble
Saturday, November 2, 2024
8pm at University Lutheran Church
Bowerbird is pleased to present a concert of chamber works by composer George Walker performed by the Daedalus Quartet, Dynasty Battles, David Hughes, and members of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. As an aspiring pianist in his early teens, George Walker (1922-2018) gave his first public recital at Howard University’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel before studying performance and composition at Oberlin College and the Eastman School of Music. Walker graduated from Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute with Artist Diplomas in piano and composition in 1945, as one of the first Black graduates of the music school. Despite Walker’s many achievements, much of his chamber music is not widely known.
Be sure to click HERE for more information and to book your deeply discounted MFS member tickets (enter code musicfund at checkout) to this wonderful evening of music.