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Underserved Communities
National Endowment for the Arts FY 2016 Spring Grant Announcement Artistic Discipline/Field Listings Project details are accurate as of April 26, 2016. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Click the grant area or artistic field below to jump to that area of the document. 1. Art Works grants Arts Education Dance Design Folk & Traditional Arts Literature Local Arts Agencies Media Arts Museums Music Opera Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works Theater & Musical Theater Visual Arts 2. State & Regional Partnership Agreements 3. Research: Art Works 4. Our Town 5. Other Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of April 26, 2016. Arts Education Number of Grants: 115 Total Dollar Amount: $3,585,000 826 Boston, Inc. (aka 826 Boston) $10,000 Roxbury, MA To support Young Authors Book Program, an in-school literary arts program. High school students from underserved communities will receive one-on-one instruction from trained writers who will help them write, edit, and polish their work, which will be published in a professionally designed book and provided free to students. Visiting authors, illustrators, and graphic designers will support the student writers and book design and 826 Boston staff will collaborate with teachers to develop a standards-based curriculum that meets students' needs. Abada-Capoeira San Francisco $10,000 San Francisco, CA To support a capoeira residency and performance program for students in San Francisco area schools. Students will learn capoeira, a traditional Afro-Brazilian art form that combines ritual, self-defense, acrobatics, and music in a rhythmic dialogue of the body, mind, and spirit. -
American Academy of Arts and Letters
NEWS RELEASE American Academy of Arts and Letters Contact: Ardith Holmgrain 633 WEST 155 STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10032 [email protected] www.artsandletters.org (212) 368-5900 http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2010music.php THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS ANNOUNCES 2010 MUSIC AWARD WINNERS Sixteen Composers Receive Awards Totaling $170,000 New York, March 4, 2010—The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the sixteen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $170,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: Robert Beaser (chairman), Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Steven Stucky, and Yehudi Wyner. The awards will be presented at the Academy's annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy. ACADEMY AWARDS IN MUSIC Four composers will each receive a $7500 Academy Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. Each will receive an additional $7500 toward the recording of one work. The winners are Daniel Asia, David Felder, Pierre Jalbert, and James Primosch. WLADIMIR AND RHODA LAKOND AWARD The Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond award of $10,000 is given to a promising mid-career composer. This year the award will go to James Lee III. GODDARD LIEBERSON FELLOWSHIPS Two Goddard Lieberson fellowships of $15,000, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, are given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. This year they will go to Philippe Bodin and Aaron J. Travers. WALTER HINRICHSEN AWARD Paula Matthusen will receive the Walter Hinrichsen Award for the publication of a work by a gifted composer. -
Jacob Druckman Windows / Dark Upon the Harp / Animus II
NWCR781 Jacob Druckman Windows / Dark Upon the Harp / Animus II Dark Upon The Harp for mezzo-soprano, brass quintet and percussion (1961–62) ........................ (21:58) 2. Psalm XXII 12-17, 20 .............................. (1:55) 3. Psalm LVIII 4-9 ....................................... (4:35) 4. Psalm XVIII 4-9........................................ (4:09) 5. Psalm XXX 12, 13 ................................... (3:14) 6. Psalm CXXXIII ........................................ (4:05) 7. Psalm XVI 6-8 .......................................... (4:01) Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gerald Carlyss, percussion; Robert Ayers, percussion; New York Brass Quintet: Robert Nagel, trumpet; Fred Mills, trumpet; Ralph Froelich, horn; David Uber, trombone; Harvey Phillips, tuba 8. Animus II for mezzo-soprano, percussion, and electric tape (1967–68) ................................. (20:07) (Electronic tape realized at the Columbia- Princeton Center for Electronic Music.) Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Richard Fitz, percussion; Gordon Gottlieb, percussion Total playing time: 63:29 1. Windows for orchestra (1972) ............................. (21:13) Orchestra of the Twentieth Century; Arthur Ê 1981, 1998 & © 1998 Composers Recordings, Inc. Weisberg, conductor © 2007 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. Notes During the last twenty years of his life, Jacob Druckman often organized the interactions between tonal and atonal (1928–1996) was principal architect of the New Romanticism musical language with adulterated bits of materials quoted or in American -
2019 Round Top Music Festival
James Dick, Founder & Artistic Director 2019 Round Top Music Festival ROUND TOP FESTIVAL INSTITUTE Bravo! We salute those who have provided generous gifts of $10,000 or more during the past year. These gifts reflect donations received as of May 19, 2019. ROUND TOP FESTIVAL INSTITUTE 49th SEASON PArtNER THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION HERITAGE CIrcLE H-E-B, L .P. FOUNDERS The Brown Foundation Inc. The Clayton Fund The Estate of Norma Mary Webb BENEFACTORS The Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Bratcher, Jr. Foundation James C. Dick Mark and Lee Ann Elvig Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation Richard R. Royall V Rose P. VanArsdel SUSTAINERS Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. William, Helen and Georgina Hudspeth Nancy Dewell Braus Luther King Capital Management The Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Foundation Paula and Kenneth Moerbe Malinda Croan Anna and Gene Oeding Mandy Dealey and Michael Kentor The Gilbert and Thyra Plass Arts Foundation Dickson-Allen Foundation Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust June R. Dossat Dr. and Mrs. Rolland C. Reynolds and Yvonne Reynolds Dede Duson Jim Roy and Rex Watson Marilyn T. Gaddis Ph.D. and George C. Carruthers Tod and Paul Schenck Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts Alice Taylor Gray Foundation Larry A. Uhlig George F. Henry Betty and Lloyd Van Horn Felicia and Craig Hester Lola Wright Foundation Joan and David Hilgers Industry State Bank • Fayetteville Bank • First National Bank of Bellville • Bank of Brenham • First National Bank of Shiner ® Bravo! Welcome to the 49th Round Top Music Festival ROUND TOP FESTIVAL INSTITUTE The sole endeavor of The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts To everything There is a season And a time to every purpose, under heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to laugh, a time to weep This season at Festival Hill has been an especially sad one with the loss of three of our beloved friends and family. -
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents 21st CENTURY CONSORT February 11, 2012 Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents 21st Century Consort Christopher Kendall, Artistic Director Boyd Sarratt, Manager Elisabeth Adkins, Violin Paul Cigan, Clarinet Lisa Emenheiser, Piano Abigail Evans, Viola Sara Stern, Flute Olivia Vote, Mezzo Soprano Rachel Young, Cello Mark Huffman, Recording Engineer Mark Wakefield, Stage Manager Saturday, February 11, 2012 Pre-Concert Discussion 4:00 p.m. Concert 5:00 p.m. Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium Smithsonian American Art Museum ❖ ❖ ❖ The 21st Century Consort’s 2011–2012 Season is sponsored by The Smithsonian American Art Museum and funded in part by generous contributions from The Cafritz Foundation and the Board and Friends of the 21st Century Consort. The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents Pre-Concert Discussion Christopher Kendall with composers from the program Program “Multiplicity Multiplicity” Simple Machines R. Luke DuBois/Paul Moon Power Synth Mark Kuss Ms. Emenheiser Variations for Flute and Piano Robert Beaser In three movements Ms. Emenheiser, Ms. Stern INTERMISSION Wet Ink Donald Crockett Ms. Adkins, Ms. Emenheiser Colors passing through us David Froom Mr. Cigan, Ms. Emenheiser, Ms. Evans, Ms. Vote Falling James Matheson Ms. Adkins, Ms. Emenheiser, Ms. Young ❖ ❖ ❖ The audience is invited to join the artists in the lobby for an informal post-concert reception, sponsored by the Board and Friends of the 21st Century Consort. Program Notes and Texts Simple Machines R. Luke DuBois/Paul Moon R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. -
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Underwood New Music Readings American Composers Orchestra PARTICIPATING COMPOSERS Andy Akiho Andy Akiho is a contemporary composer whose interests run from steel pan to traditional classical music. Recent engagements include commissioned premieres by the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, a performance with the LA Philharmonic, and three shows at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC featuring original works. His rhythmic compositions continue to increase in recognition with recent awards including the 2014-15 Luciano Berio Rome Prize, a 2012 Chamber Music America Grant with Sybarite5, the 2011 Finale & ensemble eighth blackbird National Composition Competition Grand Prize, the 2012 Carlsbad Composer Competition Commission for Calder Quartet, the 2011 Woods Chandler Memorial Prize (Yale School of Music), a 2011 Music Alumni Award (YSM), the 2010 Horatio Parker Award (YSM), three ASCAP Plus Awards, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and a 2008 Brian M. Israel Prize. His compositions have been featured on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music. A graduate of the University of South Carolina (BM, performance), the Manhattan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), and the Yale School of Music (MM, composition), Akiho is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Princeton University. In addition to attending the 2013 International Heidelberger Frühling, the 2011 Aspen Summer Music Festival, and the 2008 Bang on a Can Summer Festival as a composition fellow, Akiho was the composer in residence for the 2013 Chamber Music Northwest Festival and the 2012 Silicon Valley Music Festival. -
Beyond the Machine Photo by Claudio Papapietro
Beyond The Machine Photo by Claudio Papapietro Juilliard Scholarship Fund The Juilliard School is the vibrant home to more than 800 dancers, actors, and musicians, over 90 percent of whom are eligible for financial aid. With your help, we can offer the scholarship support that makes a world of difference—to them and to the global future of dance, drama, and music. Behind every Juilliard artist is all of Juilliard—including you. For more information please contact Tori Brand at (212) 799-5000, ext. 692, or [email protected]. Give online at giving.juilliard.edu/scholarship. The Juilliard School presents Center for Innovation in the Arts Edward Bilous, Founding Director Beyond the Machine 19.1 InterArts Workshop March 26 and 27, 2019, 7:30pm (Juilliard community only) March 28, 2019, 7pm Conversation with the artists, hosted by William F. Baker 7:30pm Performance Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater The Man Who Loved the World Treyden Chiaravalloti, Director Eric Swanson, Actor John-Henry Crawford, Composer On film: Jared Brown, Dancer Sean Lammer, Dancer Barry Gans, Dancer Dylan Cory, Dancer Julian Elia, Dancer Javon Jones, Dancer Nicolas Noguera, Dancer Canaries Natasha Warner, Writer, Director, and Choreographer Pablo O'Connell, Composer Esmé Boyce, Choreographer Jasminn Johnson, Actor Gwendolyn Ellis, Actor Victoria Pollack, Actor Jessica Savage, Actor Phoebe Dunn, Actor David Rosenberg, Actor Intermission (Program continues) Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. The taking of photographs -
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MARLBORO MUSIC 60th AnniversAry reflections on MA rlboro Music 85316_Watkins.indd 1 6/24/11 12:45 PM 60th ANNIVERSARY 2011 MARLBORO MUSIC Richard Goode & Mitsuko Uchida, Artistic Directors 85316_Watkins.indd 2 6/23/11 10:24 AM 60th AnniversA ry 2011 MARLBORO MUSIC richard Goode & Mitsuko uchida, Artistic Directors 85316_Watkins.indd 3 6/23/11 9:48 AM On a VermOnt HilltOp, a Dream is BOrn Audience outside Dining Hall, 1950s. It was his dream to create a summer musical community where artists—the established and the aspiring— could come together, away from the pressures of their normal professional lives, to exchange ideas, explore iolinist Adolf Busch, who had a thriving music together, and share meals and life experiences as career in Europe as a soloist and chamber music a large musical family. Busch died the following year, Vartist, was one of the few non-Jewish musicians but Serkin, who served as Artistic Director and guiding who spoke out against Hitler. He had left his native spirit until his death in 1991, realized that dream and Germany for Switzerland in 1927, and later, with the created the standards, structure, and environment that outbreak of World War II, moved to the United States. remain his legacy. He eventually settled in Vermont where, together with his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin, his brother Herman Marlboro continues to thrive under the leadership Busch, and the great French flutist Marcel Moyse— of Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode, Co-Artistic and Moyse’s son Louis, and daughter-in-law Blanche— Directors for the last 12 years, remaining true to Busch founded the Marlboro Music School & Festival its core ideals while incorporating their fresh ideas in 1951. -
Here Center and Performed There for 20 Seasons
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center Mindy Kaufman joined the New York Phil- music from Mozart concerti to Brazilian samba Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 8 pm harmonic in 1979 at age 22, after playing for worldwide. Paula Robison was a founding artist three years with the Rochester Philharmonic. She member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln graduated from the Eastman School of Music, where Center and performed there for 20 seasons. The New York Flute Club she studied with Walfrid Kujala, James Galway, She holds the Donna Hieken Flute Chair at New founded 1920 by Georges Barrère and Bonita Boyd. Ms. Kaufman has performed as England Conservatory. a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and for one season substituted as principal flute with the Nancy Toff is the author of The Development of Centennial Gala Concert Milwaukee Symphony. Ms. Kaufman has recorded the Modern Flute, The Flute Book, and Monarch more than 40 films. of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrère, and was curator of the exhibition “Georges Barrère and the GEORGES BARRÈRE Nocturne (1913) Robert Langevin joined the New York Phil- Flute in America” at the New York Public Library (1876-1944) ROBERT LANGEVIN, flute harmonic as principal flute in 2001. He was for the Performing Arts, for which she wrote the BRYAN WAGORN, piano previously principal flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony catalog. She received the Dena Epstein Award Orchestra and taught at Duquesne University. for Archival and Library Research in American ELDIN BURTON Sonatina (1948) He served as associate principal of the Montreal Music from the Music Library Association and the (1913-1981) Allegretto grazioso Symphony Orchestra for 13 years and as a member National Flute Association’s 2012 Distinguished Andantino Sognando of Musica Camerata Montreal and l’Ensemble de Service Award. -
Program Notes
GENEVA CONCERTS presents Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman conductor and violin with Ariana Ghez, oboe Friday, March 9, 2007 ● 8:15 p.m. Smith Opera House 1 GENEVA CONCERTS, INC. 2006-2007 SEASON Friday, 29 September 2006, 8:15 p.m. State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara Carmen A passionate story of lust, treachery and fate, based on the fabled temptress of Seville, told in ballet and set to the music of Georges Bizet. Thursday, 2 November 2006, 8:15 p.m. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Daniel Hege, conductor “Shakespeare in Music” Walton, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Strauss Saturday, 20 January 2007, 8:15 p.m. Cantus One of America’s finest professional male vocal ensembles, Cantus’ repertoire spans many periods and genres including Gregorian chant, Renaissance motets, contemporary works, art songs, folk music, spirituals, and pop. Friday, 9 March 2007, 8:15 p.m. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin Ariana Ghez, oboe Bach, Stravinsky, Elgar Friday, 30 March 2007, 8:15 p.m. Hesperus “The Buxtehude Project” Saturday, 21 April 2007, 8:15 p.m. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Ron Spigelman, conductor Allen Vizzutti, trumpet De Falla, Vizzutti, Bernstein, Copland Performed at the Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva, NY These concerts are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and by a continuing subscription from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 2 GENEVA CONCERTS, INC. Friday, March 9, 2007 • 8:15 p.m. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin Ariana Ghez, oboe Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in C minor for Oboe, Violin, and String Orchestra, BWV 1060 I. -
Interview for FLÖTE AKTUELL: PAULA ROBISON, August, 2014 Y H P a R G O T O H P
Interview for FLÖTE AKTUELL: PAULA ROBISON, August, 2014 y h p a r g o t o h P L e t a K : o t o h P Paula Robison Interview for FLÖTE AKTUELL: PAULA ROBISON, August, 2014 e n i D t t a M Playing : o t to Pan o F Interview with at the age of sixteen ̈ PAULA ROBISON for FLÖTE AKTUELL (Claudia Wälder-Jene) 1. FA (Floete Aktuell): Dear Ms. Robison, evolved human being emerges with the abili- Foto: Boswil the flute and you - a love at first sight?? ty to pass on the deepest meaning and the ̆ Moyse,- Debost,-Strum,- deepest beauty of music to others. When Paula PR (Paula Robison): Indeed it was love at Marcel Moyse called me his “best student” he As a young flutist first sight, and first sound. It was almost did not mean that I was the best flutist who playing Mozart ̈ magical. I had studied the piano, but its had studied with him but rather that I sheer size and mass intimidated me a bit, amidst all of them had truly heard and „The Complete especially since my formidable grandmother under stood him. I heard the beauty, yes, but Sequenzas“ at was my teacher. I just couldn’t sit still to was also acutely aware of his struggles as an Luciano Berio’s 70th practice. I would feel as though my nose artist, of his desire to bring to life the Birthday Celebration ̄ itched, and then my knee, then my ear, I enormous expressive power of the flute. -
Carnegie Hall Rental
Friday Evening, March 17, 2017, at 7:30 Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage presents Susanna’s Secret LEON BOTSTEIN , Conductor Performance #49, Season 2, Concert 20 OTTORINO RESPIGHI Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows ) (1926) (1879–1936) La fuga in Egitto San Michele Arcangelo Il mattutino di Santa Chiara San Gregorio Magno RESPIGHI Rossiniana , P. 148 (1925) Capri e Taormina (Barcarola a Siciliana) Lamento Intermezzo Tarantella “puro sangue” Intermission ERMANNO Il segreto di Susanna (Susanna’s Secret ) WOLF-FERRARI (1907–09) (1876–1948) JINWON PARK, Soprano MICHAEL KELLY, Baritone This evening’s concert will run approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes including one 20-minute intermission. PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Notes FROM T ŌN MUSICIANS Notes by Sasha Haft, flute Ottorino Respighi Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows ) Ottorino Respighi was born into a fam - ple suggestion from Elsa, after she ily of musicians. After many years of showed him some passages of Grego - study in his hometown, Respighi was rian Chant that she learned during her appointed to a position in the viola sec - studies. Respighi was immediately tion at the Imperial Opera in St. Peters - spellbound by the religiosity and emo - burg. Here he was also able to continue tional harmony he felt upon hearing the studying composition with the greatly chants, and set out to capture those esteemed composer Nikolai Rimsky- feelings in his future compositions. In Korsakov, who took a great interest in the summer of that year, Respighi wrote Respighi and convinced him to pursue a Three Piano Preludes on Gregorian career in composition upon returning Melodies as his first attempt to capture to Italy, where Respighi would be able what he had felt.