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25: 2024
Numinous at 25
25. 2024
#numinous25
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2024 was about travels and the beginnings of future life changes. Some of the travel was @1619opera research under my Hodder Fellowship (Liverpool, Portugal, Colorado) and some was personal (Ushuaia in Patagonia, Sydney, Fiji (all long-held dreams)). But the year started with five scenes from @thegreyland at the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC with @brandonkeithbrownconductor conducting an orchestra featuring @rebeccalhargrove singing. The beginnings of my CoLABoratory Fellowship with the American Composers Orchestra and the development of my piece “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident” and the publication of one of my string quartets “Shibboleths” by @aliaspress.
In the spring I did a preliminary research visit to Liverpool, England for the third opera in the cycle, where I met with Liz Stewart, head of the @museumofliverpool . And two weeks later the family joined me on a first visit to Portugal, where I continued my third opera research in Lisboa, visiting a number of museums and taking the @africanlisbontour , and Lagos, where I visited the place where the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began in 1444–now a museum called the Mercado de Escravos (Slave Market).
That fall I was awarded @themapfund grant for the second opera in the cycle, a @nyscouncilonthearts grant for my piece for @amercomporch , I began writing the libretto for that second opera, I was beginning the formal plans for my retirement from teaching @ps321bk , and finally we serendipitously found the property that would eventually become @clubdeltadelasartes , although a couple of visits and a few months away from that really becoming a reality. At the end of 2024 it was all just an exciting hope and possibility!
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic @numinousmusic #mixedmusic #newmusic #newopera #opera #monoopera #mixedmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #1619opera #1619operacycle #hodderfellowship #hodderfellow #tillpathsbewroughtthroughwilds #reconstruction #reconstructionopera #shibboleths
#numinous25
#numinousmusic25
2024 was about travels and the beginnings of future life changes. Some of the travel was @1619opera research under my Hodder Fellowship (Liverpool, Portugal, Colorado) and some was personal (Ushuaia in Patagonia, Sydney, Fiji (all long-held dreams)). But the year started with five scenes from @thegreyland at the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC with @brandonkeithbrownconductor conducting an orchestra featuring @rebeccalhargrove singing. The beginnings of my CoLABoratory Fellowship with the American Composers Orchestra and the development of my piece “We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident” and the publication of one of my string quartets “Shibboleths” by @aliaspress.
In the spring I did a preliminary research visit to Liverpool, England for the third opera in the cycle, where I met with Liz Stewart, head of the @museumofliverpool . And two weeks later the family joined me on a first visit to Portugal, where I continued my third opera research in Lisboa, visiting a number of museums and taking the @africanlisbontour , and Lagos, where I visited the place where the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began in 1444–now a museum called the Mercado de Escravos (Slave Market).
That fall I was awarded @themapfund grant for the second opera in the cycle, a @nyscouncilonthearts grant for my piece for @amercomporch , I began writing the libretto for that second opera, I was beginning the formal plans for my retirement from teaching @ps321bk , and finally we serendipitously found the property that would eventually become @clubdeltadelasartes , although a couple of visits and a few months away from that really becoming a reality. At the end of 2024 it was all just an exciting hope and possibility!
#josephcphillipsjr #numinous #numinousmusic @numinousmusic #mixedmusic #newmusic #newopera #opera #monoopera #mixedmusic #thegreyland #thegreylandopera #1619opera #1619operacycle #hodderfellowship #hodderfellow #tillpathsbewroughtthroughwilds #reconstruction #reconstructionopera #shibboleths
Thanks and credit to all the original photos on this website to: David Andrako, Concrete Temple Theatre, Marcy Begian, Mark Elzey, Ed Lefkowicz, Donald Martinez, Kimberly McCollum, Geoff Ogle, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Daniel Wolf-courtesy of Roulette, Andrew Robertson, Viscena Photography, Jennifer Kang, Carolyn Wolf, Mark Elzey, Karen Wise, Numinosito. The Numinous Changing Same album design artwork by DM Stith. The Numinous The Grey Land album design and artwork by Brock Lefferts. Contact for photo credit and information on specific images.