Relâche: Re | PUBLIC

As Philadelphia gets itself ready to be a focal point of the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it’s also a good time to reflect on Relâche’s impact on our city’s cultural landscape for nearly fifty of those years.

We’re proud, of course, of the commissions, performances and recordings

involving artists from around the globe; but there’s a reason we’ve remained a Philly-based organization since our founding just after the American Bicentennial. We’re all either native or adopted Philadelphians, and this city represents to us the very essence of what makes our entire nation great: A tightly-knit community of hard-working folks, always ready to stand up for what is right, and never afraid to show some love.

In Re | PUBLIC, we’ll join the national celebration by revisiting some of our

favorite repertoire from American composers. These are wonderfully

innovative works, but we think that you’ll find them…