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Brotherly Love Festival
Held: Late February and early March, 2000 |
Music, poetry, history, art, religion – The Quaker Information Center and a number of other cultural organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Region invited the public to enjoy a variety of events leading up to and including the world premiere of the oratorio, Brotherly Love, based upon Quaker poet Daniel Hoffman’s book-length poem of the same name and presented by the Philadelphia Singers: http://philadelphiasingers.org/
The Philadelphia Singers premiered this commissioned work by composer Ezra Laderman on March 4th and 5th, 2000. It celebrates Penn's vision for the colony of Pennsylvania and for the New World, his relationship with the Native Americans, and the wear and tear over time upon that vision and that relationship, caused by the vicissitudes of real life as real people attempted to translate an ideal into reality.
In anticipation of this very special occasion, many of Philadelphia’s oldest and best-known cultural organizations developed programming to create a Brotherly Love Festival -- examining William Penn’s impact on the history of Philadelphia from artistic, historical, and cultural perspectives. They included the Atwater Kent Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Lenni Lenape Historical Society, the United American Indians of the Delaware Valley, the Arch Street Meeting House and the Quaker Information Center. The book Brotherly Love by Swarthmore Friends Meeting member Daniel Hoffman was reprinted by the University of Pennsylvania Press for this festival and may be purchased from:
For more information, including study packets, contact the Quaker Information Center at (215) 241-7241 or e-mail: info@quakerinfo.org (Be sure to provide your postal address). |