Philadelphia Public Orchestra (Is-Past)
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In September 2025, we checked this page's main link, and it went nowhere. A search for a replacement turned up a Google AI Overview that referred to this subject as "a temporary musical project". Therefore, we assume that the following information is history:
Old URL: rehearsingphiladelphia.com/the-public-orchestra-manifesto
An article in Philadelphia Magazine [see below] details an ambitious project, set to take place across the city in March and April 2022. Funded by a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grant, the Curtis Institute of Music and Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design team up with Ari Benjamin Meyers to explore how to bring Philadelphians together through musical rehearsal. One of four project modules, the Philadelphia Public Orchestra will reimagine how an ensemble can function and create, writes Victor Fiorillo.
Note: The above descriptive information came from this page at the Curtis Institute.
In The News
- New orchestra with a new mission: the Philadelphia Public Orchestra, The Hub (League of American Orchestras), October 5, 2021.
- The world’s first public orchestra launches in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Magazine, September 30, 2021.