Mural Arts Month: If You Could Hear These Walls Premiere at Peace Haiku Sit

To shine a new light on some of our existing work Mural Arts has partnered with the American Composers Forum - Philadelphia Chapter to present If You Could Hear These Walls, a community engagement project featuring residencies, new music written for Philadelphia murals, and performances to celebrate both mural art and community identity.
Fourteen Philadelphia composers are creating compositions inspired by three murals – Henry Ossawa Tanner: Letters of Influence painted by Keir Johnston, Peace is a Haiku Song painted by Josh Sarantitis and Parris Stancell and Southeast by Southeast painted by Miriam Singer and Shira Walinsky “ and engaging members of the communities surrounding the murals by teaching them about music, composition and performance and in some cases involving them directly in the composition or performance of their music. Finally, they will present their music at each mural site.

Featured composers: Andrew Bleckner | Lucas Brown | Evan Solot | Ami Yares | Bobby Zankel

CONCERTS FUNDED BY: William Penn Foundation “ Community Partners Program through a grant to American Composers Foundation
EVENT PARTNER: American Composers Forum “ Philadelphia Chapter

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