About
Philadelphia Voices is the sixth and largest-scale installment of Tod Machover’s acclaimed City Symphonies. Through specially-designed mobile technologies developed by Machover and his Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, Machover has given residents of Philadelphia the opportunity to contribute their own samplings of cityscapes, vocalizations, and texts, reviewed and compiled by Machover and his team, uniting the richly diverse communities of Philadelphia through sound. The result is a celebration of the birthplace of American democracy written for, and with, the Philadelphians who know it best.
World Premiere
Philadelphia Voices premiered on April 5, 2018 (with two subsequent performances on April 6th and 7th) with The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with a troupe of voices - Westminster Symphonic Choir, Keystone State Boys Choir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir, Sister Cities Girlchoir - representing Philadelphia-area choruses. The final performance of Philadelphia Voices took place in New York at Carnegie Hall on April 10, 2018, marking the first presentation of a City Symphony given outside the city for which it was written.
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Partners
The MIT Media Lab and The Philadelphia Orchestra are proud to partner with the following community organizations and individuals in the creation of Philadelphia Voices:
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Jennifer Cleary
Cameron Coles
Constitution High School
Nick DiBerardino, The Curtis Institute of Music
Makan Taghavi Dilamani, NYU
The Franklin Institute
Germantown Avenue
Google “Magenta” Project
Jayda Hepburn
Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir
Youngmoo Kim and Drexel University’s ExCITe Center
Make Music Day Philly
Jack McCarthy
Mighty Writers El Futuro
Mighty Writers West
Dorina Morrow, High School for Creative and Performing Arts
Mummer’s Museum
Museum of the American Revolution
National Constitution Center
Michael O’Bryan, The Village of Arts and Humanities
Michelle Angela Ortiz
Pat’s King of Steaks
Elizabeth Perez-Luna
Philadelphia Zoo
Reading Terminal Market
Merrill Reese
Christina Rissell, Mighty Writers
School District of Philadelphia
Sister Cities Girlchoir
Slought Foundation
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
University of Pennsylvania
U.S. Dream Academy
The Village of Arts and Humanities
Naomi Waltham-Smith
Westminster Symphonic Choir
WHYY
Hardy Williams Academy Mastery Charter School
Jacob Winterstein
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Jennifer Cleary
Cameron Coles
Constitution High School
Nick DiBerardino, The Curtis Institute of Music
Makan Taghavi Dilamani, NYU
The Franklin Institute
Germantown Avenue
Google “Magenta” Project
Jayda Hepburn
Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir
Youngmoo Kim and Drexel University’s ExCITe Center
Make Music Day Philly
Jack McCarthy
Mighty Writers El Futuro
Mighty Writers West
Dorina Morrow, High School for Creative and Performing Arts
Mummer’s Museum
Museum of the American Revolution
National Constitution Center
Michael O’Bryan, The Village of Arts and Humanities
Michelle Angela Ortiz
Pat’s King of Steaks
Elizabeth Perez-Luna
Philadelphia Zoo
Reading Terminal Market
Merrill Reese
Christina Rissell, Mighty Writers
School District of Philadelphia
Sister Cities Girlchoir
Slought Foundation
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
University of Pennsylvania
U.S. Dream Academy
The Village of Arts and Humanities
Naomi Waltham-Smith
Westminster Symphonic Choir
WHYY
Hardy Williams Academy Mastery Charter School
Jacob Winterstein
Philadelphia Voices is made possible in part by the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.