Take a musical tour of Philadelphia’s historic pipe organs with the Opera Philadelphia Chorus! Visit three churches—Manayunk’s St. John the Baptist Church, Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church in Cobbs Creek, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Germantown—and hear traditional opera choruses from Verdi’s Macbeth and Wagner’s Tannhäuser plus newer works written specifically for chorus and organ by contemporary composers Hannah Kendall, Melissa Dunphy, Marcus DeLoach, and David Hurd.
Inspired by Opera Philadelphia’s past participation in Organ Day, an annual event sponsored by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Organ Stops is a celebration of the city’s sacred musical spaces, choral music, and the pipe organ.
Organ Stops is a collaboration between Opera Philadelphia, helmed by Chorus Master Elizabeth Braden, and Partners for Sacred Places.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was notoriously passionate about opera. To mark her 88th birthday, Opera Philadelphia, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music partnered to celebrate RBG with p...
A roundtable discussion about composing with:
Erin Busch, composer and founder and executive director of the Young Women Composers Camp (YWCC)
Courtney Bryan, composer and pianist
Melissa Dunphy, composer and educator
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, Zimbabwean gwenyambira, composer, singer, and scholar
This roundtable conversation investigates how to handle problematic portions of the canon as well as ways to make space for new and different voices.
Host:
Veronica Chapman-Smith
Panel:
Dr. Melissa Dunphy
Dr. Michael Mohammed
Emily Sung
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa
