National Endowment for the Arts  
About Us
 
 

FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

TENNESSEE

ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
Nashville, TN
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Mestiza Music in Music City, an educational and outreach project with composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Plans include lecture/demonstrations, free concerts, a master class, and the premiere performance of a new work by Frank.

Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis, TN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Urban Memphis and the Rural Delta, Its Voices and Its Beats. The project will organize and digitize a large collection of material documenting the lifestyles and traditions of Memphis and the surrounding rural area.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Nashville, TN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Words & Music Songwriting Outreach Program of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Students in grades 3 through 12 will learn to write song lyrics in their classrooms using a specially developed curriculum and will work with professional Nashville songwriters to refine writing and set the words to music.

Knoxville Symphony Society, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$17,300
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support KSO On-the-Road. Plans include a tour of concerts and educational programming to communities in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Memphis Orchestral Society, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Harmony, an educational outreach program for schoolchildren. The project will include in-school ensemble performances and youth concerts at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of Twyla Tharp's The Story Teller and Eugene Loring's Billy the Kid. The works will be presented as part of Nashville Ballet's American Originals II program along with a multi-media performance of Postcards from the Boys, choreographed by Sarah Slipper.

Nashville Public Radio
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Live in Studio C, a weekly live radio broadcast of performances and interviews with Nashville-area musicians. The locally produced program will feature a mix of classical, jazz, and other musical genres.

Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Shakespeare in the Park 2010: Love's Labour's Lost. Artistic Director Denice Hicks will direct the free outdoor production to be performed at Centennial Park in Nashville.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and recording project of American composer Richard Danielpour's Songs of Solitude. The concert and recording, featuring recently-appointed Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and baritone Thomas Hampson, will take place in Schermerhorn Symphony Center's Laura Turner Concert Hall.

Nashville Symphony Association (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Pearl-Cohn Initiative. In partnership with the W.O. Smith/Nashville Community School, the program provides private lessons, master classes, musical instruments, travel subsidies to and from music lessons and concert events, and performances by professional musicians to students at Pearl-Cohn Cluster schools.

Salama Fellowship Urban Ministries, Inc. (aka Salama Institute) (on behalf of Salama Institute Performing Arts Series)
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Salama Institute's 2010 Performing Arts Series. Associate Director Bill Crimm will oversee the series, and Persephone Felder-Fentress and Dr. Peter Fields will co-direct a presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$875,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.


Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $1,168,400

 
< Back to States List
 

Privacy Policy          Important Notices          Contact Us          USA.gov
 
Grants Recent Grants