Rehearsing Philadelphia – A Meta-Score by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Rehearsing Philadelphia 
A Meta-Score by Ari Benjamin Meyers
March 25 – April 10, 2022
Various Locations
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.rehearsingphiladelphia.com
Opening Weekend: March 25 – 26, 2022


Created by Ari Benjamin Meyers and jointly produced and presented by the Curtis Institute of Music and Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Rehearsing Philadelphia is a large-scale public project that explores how we can come together as a city through musical rehearsal. The traditional musical preparation process focuses on rehearsing as a way to attain perfection, which is then repeated in performance. This is not how we live modern life in a rapidly changing world of social upheaval. The future will be rehearsed, not perfected. Rehearsing Philadelphia re-examines the rehearsal processes which allow people to act together and be empowered to create new realities.

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