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Voices of Africa
Voices of Africa, Cultural Arts Collective choral and percussion ensemble, offers a community workshop and concert on Feb. 22, 6 p.m., at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. The family-friendly event, free with Museum admission ($10 adult; $7 seniors 65 and older; $6 students and children 6-17), is a featured program offered in conjunction with the museum's year-long gallery project, Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum.
An African Cultural Arts Collective that works with a range of Philadelphia area artists from around the African Diaspora, Voices of Africa has performed widely throughout the region, around the country at sites including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the National Women's Music Festival, and at venues internationally since its founding in 1990. The Penn Museum program with Voices of Africa features an ensemble of six to eight singers, drummers, and dancers.
Voices of Africa features a unique blending of a cappella harmonies with traditional West African percussive rhythms. Their music spans the African Diaspora, with traditional African and African-American songs, message music, gospel, and inspirational percussive rhythms, played on a variety of instruments including the sakara, a hand held shallow drum; the sekere, a beaded gourd drum; the agogo, a double headed metal bells; the djembe, a skin-covered drum; and the sangba, a cylindrical drum played with a stick.
Voices of Africa, Cultural Arts Collective choral and percussion ensemble, offers a community workshop and concert on Feb. 22, 6 p.m., at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. The family-friendly event, free with Museum admission ($10 adult; $7 seniors 65 and older; $6 students and children 6-17), is a featured program offered in conjunction with the museum's year-long gallery project, Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum.
An African Cultural Arts Collective that works with a range of Philadelphia area artists from around the African Diaspora, Voices of Africa has performed widely throughout the region, around the country at sites including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the National Women's Music Festival, and at venues internationally since its founding in 1990. The Penn Museum program with Voices of Africa features an ensemble of six to eight singers, drummers, and dancers.
Voices of Africa features a unique blending of a cappella harmonies with traditional West African percussive rhythms. Their music spans the African Diaspora, with traditional African and African-American songs, message music, gospel, and inspirational percussive rhythms, played on a variety of instruments including the sakara, a hand held shallow drum; the sekere, a beaded gourd drum; the agogo, a double headed metal bells; the djembe, a skin-covered drum; and the sangba, a cylindrical drum played with a stick.
DOLCE SUONO ENSEMBLE
Dolce Suono Ensemble (DSE), Philadelphia’s star chamber ensemble led by young flutist/historian Mimi Stillman, continues its celebrated Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 project in 2012. The project marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death and the 60th anniversary of the death of Arnold Schoenberg, with two final performances on Feb. 3 at Haverford College (8 p.m.) and Feb. 5 at the Trinity Center for Urban Life (3 p.m.).
In the project’s second of two seasons, DSE presents internationally celebrated soprano and long-time modernists’ muse, Lucy Shelton, performing Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire in its centennial year, along with the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Shulamit Ran’s Moon Songs: A Song Cycle in Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano, commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble and performed by Dolce Suono Trio (Stillman/Kendall/Abramovic). The program concludes with a rare performance of Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet, the only chamber music work currently in circulation from this symphonic composer. The concerts will be accompanied by educational and community outreach events by artists and composer-in-residence Shulamit Ran.
After completing the Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 presentations in Haverford and Philadelphia, DSE will perform in New York City on Feb. 6, at Symphony Space as part of the citywide Composers Now festival. The program, comprised entirely of DSE commissions, includes New York premieres of Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 works from Stucky, Mackey, Ludwig, Minakakis, and Ran, the world premiere of Fang Man’s Song of a Lonely Autumn Night (the project’s seventh and final premiere, and the second contribution from this composer), and Richard Danielpour’s Remembering Neda: Trio for flute, cello, and piano (2010).
Dolce Suono Ensemble (DSE), Philadelphia’s star chamber ensemble led by young flutist/historian Mimi Stillman, continues its celebrated Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 project in 2012. The project marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death and the 60th anniversary of the death of Arnold Schoenberg, with two final performances on Feb. 3 at Haverford College (8 p.m.) and Feb. 5 at the Trinity Center for Urban Life (3 p.m.).
In the project’s second of two seasons, DSE presents internationally celebrated soprano and long-time modernists’ muse, Lucy Shelton, performing Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire in its centennial year, along with the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Shulamit Ran’s Moon Songs: A Song Cycle in Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano, commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble and performed by Dolce Suono Trio (Stillman/Kendall/Abramovic). The program concludes with a rare performance of Gustav Mahler's Piano Quartet, the only chamber music work currently in circulation from this symphonic composer. The concerts will be accompanied by educational and community outreach events by artists and composer-in-residence Shulamit Ran.
After completing the Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 presentations in Haverford and Philadelphia, DSE will perform in New York City on Feb. 6, at Symphony Space as part of the citywide Composers Now festival. The program, comprised entirely of DSE commissions, includes New York premieres of Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 works from Stucky, Mackey, Ludwig, Minakakis, and Ran, the world premiere of Fang Man’s Song of a Lonely Autumn Night (the project’s seventh and final premiere, and the second contribution from this composer), and Richard Danielpour’s Remembering Neda: Trio for flute, cello, and piano (2010).