Ephrata Cloister

A New Album Re-Creates The Work Of The 1st Known Female Composers In America

Avery Keatley

Women rarely received credit for their creative work in Colonial America. But with a new album, one scholar is reviving the works of the women who lived and composed at the Ephrata Cloister.

Music Features

Timothy Rub of the PMA--The Ephrata Cloisters--Philadelphia Zoo 150th year

Susan Lewis

Timothy Rub, new director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jim Cotter speaks with artist Patrick Dougherty about his unique creation at the Morris Arboretum

Music Features

Curtis with the Phila. Orch.--Skyscapers Spectacles--Ephrata Cloister--Patrick Dougherty's Sculpture

Susan Lewis

David Patrick Stearns speaks with Curtis Institute of Music students making debuts as concerto soloists with The Philadelphia Orchestra this summer.Susan…

Woman?s Kimono, Japan, 1912?26 (Taish? period), Machine-spun silk plain weave with stencil-printed warp threads (meisen), The Montgomery Collection, Lugano, Switzerland

Arts & Culture

Steve Lopez on Nathaniel Ayers--Laurel Hill Cemetery--Fashioning Kimono--The Ephrata Cloister

Susan Lewis

We listen back to Jim Cotter's interview with writer Steve Lopez. His story of destitute musician Nathaniel Ayers is now being made into a major Hollywood…