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Ars Nova Workshop's Spring 2012 Season
Ars Nova Workshop's 13th year is coming soon! We wrapped up our 2011 season in late-November with two maximum capacity concerts by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog and a double-header with Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown and the Claudia Quintet + 1. Thanks to everyone who came out to support ANW this year, and we wish you all a ...
Ars Nova Workshop | Spring 2012
Ars Nova Workshop's 13th year is coming soon! We wrapped up our 2011 season in late-November with two maximum capacity concerts by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog and a double-header with Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown and the Claudia Quintet + 1. Thanks to everyone who came out to support ANW this year, and we wish you all a ...
Ars Nova Workshop | Fall 2011
The summer's coming to an end, which means Ars Nova Workshop—Philadelphia's leading presenter of jazz and experimental music—is back. We concluded our 11th season back in June with the five-concert Great Black Music Festival celebrating the work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) with performances by Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, and Wadada ...
AACM | John Szwed on the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
For Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music Festival, we've asked several leading jazz scholars and journalists to engage performers in a series of pre-concert public discussions about the history, present, and future of the AACM. At 6pm on Saturday, June 4 at Philadelphia Art Alliance, Sun Ra and Alan Lomax biographer and Columbia University professor ...
AACM | Great Black Music, 6/4-13
Presented in Philadelphia by Ars Nova Workshop from June 4-13, AACM | Great Black Music is a festival of performances and public discussions with scholars and writers celebrating the past and present work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Founded in Chicago in 1965, the AACM's motto is “Great Black Music, Ancient ...
AACM | Francis Davis on Henry Threadgill
For Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music Festival, we've asked several leading jazz scholars and journalists to engage performers in a series of pre-concert public discussions about the history, present, and future of the AACM. At 6pm on Sunday, June 5 at Christ Church Neighborhood Theatre, award-winning jazz journalist and author Francis Davis will talk ...
Kevin Whitehead on the Instant Composers Pool
Ars Nova Workshop's Three Nights in Philadelphia with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra began last night. Taken from the performance, the video below shows a bird-like Tristan Honsinger conducting the orchestra. It continues tonight when, at 8pm, the tentet will take the stage with guest vocalist Fay Victor. Then, on Sunday, members of the ICP Orchestra ...
ICP Orchestra | Three Nights in Philadelphia
In celebration of Jazz Month, on April 1 the ICP Orchestra invades Philadelphia, making a three-night stand at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Old City. A Dutch collective of improvisers and composers founded in 1967 by Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, and Willem Breuker, over 40 years later the ICP Orchestra continues to be at the forefront ...
Stasis and Change
On Saturday, April 9, Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound will perform with Steve Coleman at Montgomery County Community College. Funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project, this collaboration with Coleman is the second part of Zankel’s project, “The Wizards of the Saxophone Meet the Warriors ...
Interview | Wally Shoup
On Wednesday, March 23, Ars Nova Workshop presents a trio performance by saxophonist Wally Shoup, violinist/electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, and percussionist Ben Hall at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Shoup, who is also a visual artist and writer, has worked with many leading experimental musicians, including LaDonna Smith, Evan Parker, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Reuben Radding, and ...
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