Music: FY2004 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

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American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a tour of performances and residency activities by the American Brass Quintet. Each residency will include as many as seven performance and educational events, culminating in a formal concert in each community.

Arcady Music Society
Bar Harbor, ME
$15,000
Each residency will include as many as seven performance and educational events, culminating in a formal concert in each community. Concerts will take place in eight inland rural communities in northern, central, and southeastern Maine during the six-week festival.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Summer Institute of Music, a consortium residency program for composers and performers interested in experimental music. In collaboration with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the initiative includes free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Brazeal Dennard Chorale
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the Bridging Voices of American History project. Members of the Brazeal Dennard Youth Chorale will perform spirituals for senior citizens in assisted living and nursing facilities and conduct video oral history interviews with the residents.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support Music Partners, a music instruction program. In partnership with 25 institutions, the program will provide weekly music instruction for 3,100 individuals throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$15,000
To support the Community Heritage Celebration. A new work by composer Eric Gould, based on the history and diversity of the city's neighborhoods, will be created and presented with the involvement of school students and other community members.

Cazadero Performing Arts Camp (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support Jumpstart in Music, a consortium project. In collaboration with the Berkeley Unified School District, middle school music students will be offered a three-day weekend retreat of music instruction.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African-American and Latino music, featuring established and emerging artists from the local community.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support the Mill Community Project. Activities will include the creation and presentation of a new work for chamber orchestra by composer David Crowe, based on stories by local community members whose lives changed after the closing of a textile mill in McAdenville, North Carolina.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support performances of Music All Over the Place. Created in collaboration with the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company, the 50-minute educational program is designed for families and students in kindergarten through fifth grades.

Children's Chorus of Maryland, Inc.
Towson, MD
$7,500
To support Community Outreach Concerts and the Maryland Children's Choral Festival. Activities will include concerts for rural populations in Maryland and a day-long festival showcasing 10 choirs from the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Christina Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
To support Brownie, Mary Lou, Trane & Me, a jazz education project for children. Elementary and middle school students living in underserved urban areas of Wilmington will participate in the 25-week program.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a series of orchestra outreach programs throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area and in northern Kentucky communities. The initiative will also offer concerts at reduced prices or free of charge.

Classical Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support free concerts by advanced student training orchestras. The Classical Symphony Orchestra, comprised of graduate and undergraduate college students, and the high school students of the Protege Philharmonic will perform concerts in the Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Commission Project, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support the jazz festival, Swing 'n Jazz. The three-day event will feature 30 musicians and include a concert and free workshops on improvisation throughout the Rochester area.

Community Musicworks
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support free music education and performance programs for children and youth. The Providence String Quartet will be in residence to teach and mentor students, and perform in the community.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support a choral performance tour and residency activities. The chorus will conduct residencies at Mills College in the Bay Area and Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Crestone Performances, Inc.
Crestone, CO
$7,500
To support the Crestone Music Festival. The three-day event will include music by an Irish fiddler, taiko drummers, an a cappella vocal group that performs a variety of musical styles, a Middle Eastern instrumental ensemble, and a mariachi group.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a chamber ensemble performance tour and residency activities. The four-state tour will involve concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, programs for retirement communities, and radio interviews with composers-in-residence.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Detroit, MI
$40,000
To support a consortium performance tour to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Performances in six towns and cities will take place with tour coordination handled by the Dickinson County Council for the Arts.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the first biennial New York Early Music Festival. More than 20 performances will take place during a 10-day period in October 2004 at a variety of venues across the city.

Fairbanks Symphony Association, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
$5,000
To support an Alaskan tour by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. As the touring ensemble of the Fairbanks Symphony, the chamber orchestra will perform in remote and underserved areas of Alaska.

Farmers' Museum, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$7,500
To support the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. The three-week summer festival will include six performances, two interactive family concerts, and free educational outreach programs.

Fischoff Chamber Music Association, Inc.
Notre Dame, IN
$10,000
To support the Arts-in-Education Residency Program. Week-long residencies are planned with the Marian Anderson String Quartet, Quintet Attacca, Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues, and the grand prize-winning ensemble of the 2004 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures, and dialogues with the performing artists.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$25,000
To support a touring program in Texas and Oklahoma. Concerts and educational programs will take place in eight rural communities, reaching areas that have no professional symphony orchestras in close proximity.

Henry Mancini Institute
Culver City, CA
$25,000
To support the Summer Concert Series and Community Combos. The Summer Concert Series will take place at Royce Hall, University of California in Los Angeles; Community Combos performances will take place in museums, parks, senior and community centers, and other Los Angeles venues.

Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Springfield, IL
$10,000
To support the Music in the Parks series. The free concerts will occur in three rural Illinois communities during the 2004 Labor Day weekend. The concerts will include special activities for children and will attracted an estimated audience of 7,000.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, a consortium project. The program provides an opportunity for thousands of students to study and perform Duke Ellington's music and will include the first regional festival coordinated by Youth Education in the Arts.

JazzReach Performing Arts in Education Association
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a national tour of jazz educational outreach programs. Activities will include master classes, workshops, and clinics in 25 cities in 15 states.

Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc.
Lexington, KY
$10,000
To support concerts in rural and inner-city communities as well as educational concerts for children and families. Activities will include ensemble concerts for families; instrument "petting zoos" in schools, public parks, and businesses; and outreach concerts in rural Kentucky communities and inner-city Lexington.

Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support performances and a recording project. Activities will include performances of concert programs in new venues and the recording of music by Juan Gutierrez de Padilla.

Macon Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Macon, GA
$10,000
To support performances of works by African-American composers in observance of Black History Month. The Macon Symphony, under the artistic leadership of music director Adrian Gnam, will perform concerts at the Grand Opera House and Ft. Valley State University.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support Creative Connections, a nationwide project that brings composers and audiences together around new musical works. The project will provide opportunities for composers to attend performances of their music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and interviews.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will present artistic collaborations titled Vox Pop, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Bridges.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$5,000
To support an educational outreach program. Composer-in-residence Eric Thomas will teach performance and music appreciation classes at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center, which will reach approximately 175 people in the geographically remote community of Moab.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support outreach concerts in rural areas of middle Tennessee. In partnership with local community organizations, the symphony will tour to diverse and underserved communities.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$20,000
To support "REACH," a statewide touring and educational outreach project. The orchestra's musicians will perform ensemble and orchestral repertoire in schools, libraries, hospitals, senior centers, and community centers throughout the state.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$22,500
To support a statewide tour to small, rural, and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project also will offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Community Music Partnership program. The orchestra will select an underserved, rural community to participate in a two-year outreach residency. Orchestra musicians will provide development for teachers, educational outreach for adults and students, and performances by the full orchestra.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support Neighborhood Concerts, a consortium project with the Cooper Health System. The orchestra will perform free concerts and ancillary activities in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey, reaching underserved and non-traditional audiences in neighborhood venues through performances and educational outreach efforts.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support expansion of Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The educational outreach programs and family concerts will provide access to, and build long-term audiences, for early music.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
To support One Nation, a consortium project of education programs for the local Native American community. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (aka the Salt River Community Schools) in Scottsdale will partner with the symphony to expand outreach efforts and increase the number of private music lessons offered.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support Music for Our Schools, a performance project designed to introduce children to orchestral music. The educational outreach project will be supplemented with related curriculum materials and a Web site.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative. The tour will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships with communities across the state.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support Around the Town, an outreach project of community concerts for underserved and low-income residents. The orchestra will perform symphonic repertoire in six concerts located in neighborhood churches, community centers, and hospitals.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support free outdoor summer concerts. The San Diego Symphony, under newly appointed music director Jahja Ling, will perform in numerous venues throughout San Diego County.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support ACCESS, a consortium project of outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. In partnership with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse neighborhoods of Seattle.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support music education for underserved communities. The project will offer comprehensive programs of instruction and performance in two neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the college's Bernhard Theater. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction, and a mini-festival.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of music director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum. The free, Internet-based curriculum will teach the history and development of jazz in the United States.

Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc.
Toledo, OH
$10,000
To support concerts in rural and underserved communities of northwestern Ohio and Indiana. The orchestra will expand annual outreach efforts to the towns of Marion, Zanesville, and Celina, Ohio; and Wabash, Indiana.

Town of La Conner, Washington
La Conner, WA
$15,000
To support the Water Music Festival and a choral festival. These festivals will present early music ensembles and choruses from the state of Washington. The project, featuring ensembles such as Capella Romano, Baroque Northwest, Medieval Women's Choir, and Seattle Baroque will serve the rural community of La Conner.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency, a consortium project with the Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities. The project will consist of an educational component and a public concert in five rural communities in southern Arizona.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Lied Center of Kansas)
Lawrence, KS
$15,000
To support a consortium project for the creation and premiere of a new work for string quartet by composer Dan Coleman. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, the Lied Center of Kansas and the Lied Center of Nebraska will present the Cypress String Quartet in six community residencies.

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$7,500
To support a tour by pianist Christopher O'Riley to underserved rural communities. The project will include residency activities in schools and community colleges.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of educational activities and community concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will present children's programs in 10 communities, followed by family concerts in each location.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities will include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops, sign language interpretation, and distribution of free concert tickets to young people throughout the Washington area.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$15,000
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The orchestra, with music director Grant Cooper, will introduce orchestral music to new audiences throughout West Virginia.

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Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support Giving Voice, the second year of a three-year initiative designed to celebrate American music of the past, present, and future. The initiative will include the presentation of existing works by American composers as well as the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Emerging Composers Program, featuring commissions and performances of new works by early-to mid-career American composers, as well as related residency activities.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation in thematic concert format of U.S. premieres and rarely performed works by established composers and the associated educational activities. Composers include Frank Bridge, Paul Hindemith, Anton Rubenstein, Franz Schreker, and Richard Wagner.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque
Cleveland Heights, OH
$10,000
To support performances and radio broadcasts of early-Romantic symphonic music on period instruments. Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7 and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony will be performed in Akron at Oberlin College and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Little Rock, AR
$10,000
To support concert performances of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Two performances are planned for Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock.

Arts for Art, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 9th-annual Vision Festival. This ten-day festival of avant-garde jazz will take place in the center at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.

Aston Magna Foundation for Music
Danbury, CT
$10,000
To support the Aston Magna Festival. The 32nd annual festival will feature period instrument performances in the summer of 2004 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and in Great Barrington, MA.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support debut recitals in Philadelphia and New York City and a world premiere of a new work for string quartet.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support the Baltimore premiere of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, accompanied by Carl Dreyer's silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Educational activities featuring the chorus and Anonymous 4, an early music vocal ensemble, will precede the performance.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,500
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon and e-Festival. The day-long new music marathon, scheduled for spring 2005, will be broadcast on WNYC-FM as well as heard live over the Internet, and will serve as the anchor presentation for the month-long Bang on a Can e-Festival.

Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Bangor, ME
$10,000
To support Back to the River-a Penobscot River Tour, featuring performances and associated educational activities centered around a new work by Thomas Oboe Lee.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the music of Dmitri Shostakovich by presenting a wide range of musical forms including his symphonies, concerti, chamber music, songs, and choral music.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the 25th anniversary season of Kent Nagano's musical leadership and legacy through a series of commissions, performances, and residency activities by Japanese composers.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support performances of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers during a multi-state tour in celebration of Boston Baroque's 30th anniversary season. Five composers will be commissioned and their works premiered during the season: Mario Davidovsky, Donald Harris, Bernard Hoffer, Lee Hyla, and Brian Robison.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support the BMV Commissioning Project, an annual program that commissions a new work for each subscription concert in the season. Five composers will be commissioned and their works premiered during the season: Mario Davidovsky, Donald Harris, Bernard Hoffer, Lee Hyla, and Brian Robison.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support premiere performances of four new works by American composers Milton Babbit, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, and Charles Wuorinen. The orchestra also will perform Elliott Carter's Symphonia, a large-scale orchestral work augmented by a commissioned overture.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
To support the 40th anniversary season of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and the commissioning of new works by composers Robert X. Rodriguez, Dalit Warshaw, Gia Comolli, and George Crumb.

Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support a one-week residency by composer and performer Papo Vasquez and the Bronx Arts Ensemble at Hostos Community College in Brooklyn. The residency will include performances of Mr. Vasquez's Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite as well as classes taught in music appreciation and composition.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
To support Latin music concerts at the summer-long Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. The four concerts will explore musical genres from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support Stolen Goods, a concert featuring works by composers Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, and Richard Strauss. The Brooklyn Philharmonic, under the direction of guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, will perform in the historic Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the Composer Mentorship Program. The project will provide young composers with professional development in compositional training, community outreach, educational activities and some business skills.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Buffalo, NY
$22,500
To support presentations of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light paired with Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. The work is scored for chorus, soloists, and orchestra and contains a libretto drawn from ancient writings of female medieval mystics including Joan of Arc herself.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a professional development program for conductors. In partnership with the Conductors Guild, the training will afford emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
$10,000
To support concerts in the Woven Voices series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The concerts will celebrate the integration of advanced technologies in music and will be broadcast over the Internet.

California State University, Sacramento (on behalf of Festival of New American Music) (consortium)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music to be held on the campus of California State University, Sacramento and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$12,500
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency of composer Kevin Beavers will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Perspectives series. Curated by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, soprano Dawn Upshaw, composer John Harbison, and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 20 performances of solo, chamber, and orchestral music including premieres of commissioned pieces and professional training workshops for singers, composers, and conductors.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the Boston Marquee Series. The music concerts will pay tribute to Boston-area artists, including performances by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Borromeo String Quartet, pianist Andrew Rangell, and a three-concert tribute to composer Osvald Golijov.

Center for International Performance
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Chicago Now, a set of compact disc recordings of works by Chicago jazz musicians, accompanied by audio interviews that will be conducted by writers and historians.

Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz, Inc
Harrisburg, PA
$10,000
To support the 24th annual Central PA Commerce Bank Jazz Festival. The three-day festival includes concerts, clinics, and historic jazz films.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Leonia, NJ
$10,000
To support composer residencies and a commissioning program as part of a summer chamber music conference. Activities will take place at Bennington College in Vermont and Vassar College in New York.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Sound Investment, a 10-day festival celebrating 35 years of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's commissions of new chamber music works. Performances will be held at Alice Tully Hall, and free symposia will be offered at the Society's Rose Studio.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$10,000
To support chamber ensemble presentations and residencies. The Borromeo String Quartet and Imani Winds will perform concerts and conduct week-long educational residency activities in elementary schools, universities, and senior centers.

Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra
Cheyenne, WY
$10,000
To support a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor. In celebration of the orchestra's 50th anniversary, choirs from around the region will collaborate on a joint performance in spring 2005.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Composer Perspectives concerts at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Chicago. The concerts will feature works programmed, rehearsed, and directed by leading composers.

Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support concerts showcasing an African-American soloist and an African-American composer. Chicago Symphony trumpeter Tage Larsen and composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson will be featured in two separate programs.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the young musicians of the Civic Orchestra for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering professional coaching, mock audition seminars, and guest-artist master classes.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support a month-long festival exploring the impact of Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg on the evolutionary progress of music. Music director Daniel Barenboim will conduct performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and guest soloists at Symphony Center.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support a co-commission of a new work for chorus and orchestra by Native American composer Brent Michael Davids, with related composer residency activities. The work will celebrate the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Cleveland Orchestra (Musical Arts Association) (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$50,000
To support the first year of the Cleveland-San Francisco Exchange, a two-year venture to present each orchestra in the other's home city. Plans for the first year include three performances by the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting in Cleveland's Severance Hall.

Cleveland Orchestra (Musical Arts Association)
Cleveland, OH
$50,000
To support An American Mosaic, an exploration of the heritage of American classical music by American conductors and composers. The two-month exploration will feature performances of works by Walter Piston and Leonard Bernstein; premieres of works by composers Uri Caine and Susan Botti; and guest conductors including James Conlon, Alan Gilbert, and David Zinman.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements.
In diverse venues across the country, a significant number of performance opportunities will allow artists on the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) roster to hone performance skills and improve their powers of communication.

Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
To support classical guitar performances and master classes. Four concerts by international artists will take place at the Belding Theater in Hartford.

Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the presentation of Christmas choral concerts in San Juan and surrounding rural communities.
Five performances will take place in the Tapia Municipal Theater and other San Juan venues, and a tour to six rural areas in the eastern part of the island also is planned.

Cypress Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Call and Response, a performance and outreach project by the Cypress String Quartet. Through four concerts and outreach activities Call and Response will bring music into communities of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support American Individualism, a series of concerts and community events that will explore individualism among contemporary American composers. Two American composers of differing generations will be highlighted: George Crumb and Charles Wuorinen.

Dale Warland Singers
St. Paul, MN
$22,500
To support the creation and presentation of choral works inspired by the Mississippi River and its impact on the history and culture of the upper Midwest. Composers Kirk Mechem, Steve Heitzeg, John Muehleisen, and William Banfield will create a cappella works set to texts by American writers.

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings (on behalf of Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival)
Southfield, MI
$10,000
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional development program at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival that provides training to emerging, pre-professional ensembles.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support the creation, presentation, national radio broadcast, and residency activities featuring new works by Hannibal Lokumbe and Jonathan Holland.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the 16th annual Earshot Jazz Festival in various venues around Seattle. The festival will present more than 200 international and regional jazz artists in more than 40 concerts and outreach activities.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music & Dance
(on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$12,500
To support the creation and presentation of new works for percussion ensemble. Muhal Richard Abrahms and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson each will create new works for the percussion ensembles M'Boom and So Percussion.

Eos Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,500
To support the creation and presentation of new works for orchestra and percussion solo by Ned Rorem and David Lang, featuring percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Two performances are planned for the Concert Hall at the Ethical Culture Society in New York City, as well as open rehearsals and symposia with the composers and soloist.

Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$10,000
To support the Sarasota Music Festival. Under the artistic leadership of Paul Wolfe, the three-week chamber music festival will encompass professional development activities for emerging musicians, as well as concert performances.

Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the Master Pianists Series, which will take place at the Folly Theater in St. Louis. Pianists scheduled for the February to March 2004 series will include Yefim Bronfman, Ivan Moravec, Richard Goode, and Krystian Zimerman.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support concert performances of Frida, an opera by Robert X. Rodriguez based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Two performances and numerous educational activities will take place in the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago, with additional performances planned in nearly St. Paul's Church.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$12,500
To support a week-long Beethoven festival. The Grand Rapids Symphony, in collaboration with the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, will present orchestral, chamber, and recital concerts under the artistic direction of music director David Lockington.

Grant Park Orchestral Association
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a season-long commitment to the performance of John Corigliano's music, programmed for the Grant Park Music Festival. In celebration of the inaugural season of the Frank Gehry designed Music Pavilion at Millennium Park in Chicago, an average of one Corigliano work per week will be presented on the main stage series of the festival.

Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work for young audiences by composer Linda Tutas Haugen. The new work will be a fanfare concert-opening work for the most proficient orchestra.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the presentation of Guiseppi Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano with orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists. Two historically informed concerts will be directed by music director Grant Llewellyn and will be enhanced by pre-concert lectures, discussions, and articles by Baroque scholars.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival
Healdsburg, CA
$10,000
To support the sixth annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The week-long festival of jazz concerts also will include educational activities such as demonstrations, presentations, and student mentoring.

Houston Friends of Music
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support performances and residency activities by chamber ensembles. The American String Quartet, Eastman Brass, Enso Quartet, and Eroica Trio will be presented in concert at the Stude Concert Hall on the campus of Rice University.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support the continuation of the Concerto Commissioning Project. Composer Damian Montano will create a new concerto for piccolo, contrabassoon, and chamber orchestra.

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
$10,000
To support the 38th annual Contemporary Music Festival. The two-day festival will take place on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute.

Indiana Symphony Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$35,000
To support the Freedom Initiative, a programming initiative in celebration of the orchestra's 75th anniversary season. Plans include concerts, a commission, world premieres, a festival of women composers, and numerous educational activities.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the U.S. tour by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. The project, directed by Wynton Marsalis, will include premieres of new works, educational activities, family concerts, and teaching sessions.

Jazz In June, Inc.
Norman, OK
$10,000
To support the Jazz In June summer festival. Free concerts and local radio broadcasts of jazz and blues, as well as an educational jazz clinic, will be presented at outdoor and indoor settings.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$17,500
To support Lewis and Clark: A Musical Journey, featuring the premiere, tour, and recording of a work by composer Robert Kapilow. Celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clarke expedition, the new work will be performed in Kansas City, MO and surrounding communities as well as in Sioux City, IA.

Kent State University, Main Campus
Kent, OH
$10,000
To support faculty artists' fees for the professional development of advanced music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. Nationally selected, post-secondary music students will spend summer weeks under the mentorship and instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miro Quartet, and other prominent faculty members.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$37,000
To support the presentation, tour, and recording of Spirit Voices: A Cathedral Concert. Designed to be performed in cathedrals, the 80-minute musical program of sacred and secular music will incorporate simple choreography.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the Northern Lights Project. The series of activities will include commissioning, touring, and performances by composers and ensembles from the world's northern climates.

La Jolla Chamber Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$12,500
To support SummerFest, a three-week festival of chamber music. Among the artists to be featured in concert are the Orion String Quartet and composers-in-residence Chen Yi and Leon Kirchner.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$12,500
To support Jazz at Lafayette, celebrating the college's 21st anniversary of presenting jazz. The project will feature jazz artists Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra of Lincoln Center, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Stefon Harris, Paquito D'Rivera, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Archie Shepp, andRosewell Rudd.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support educational activities and emerging guest artists' fees. Activities include two pairs of concerts featuring area-debut performances by two artists and a Meet the Music school outreach session in an area elementary school.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support performances of J.S. Bach's cantatas by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society and Los Angeles Master Chorale. The concerts will be conducted by Bach scholar Helmuth Rilling and presented in Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles and at the newly constructed Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support concerts for the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Activities include performances of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert and the world premiere of Steve Reich's Steel to Stone.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support First Nights: An Introduction to the Great Works. The Los Angeles Philharmonic, with music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, will re-create the world premieres of cornerstone works by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Berlioz, and Steven Stucky through readings and theatrical presentations.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support Building Music, a project exploring the relationship between music and architecture. Celebrating the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform music written for or about landmark buildings.

Marilyn Horne Foundation, Inc. (MHF)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support vocal recitals by emerging artists. The foundation will present the artists at the Kosciuszko Foundation, Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, as part of its On Wings of Song series, which will be later broadcast on WQXR -FM radio.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. The project will provide young musicians with the opportunity to study with master concert artists.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers and performers Anne LeBaron, Larry Polansky, Olivia Block, and Denman Maroney will participate in performances of their work at the Mills College Concert Hall in Oakland, CA.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$10,000
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles, and chamber orchestras presented in churches and meetinghouses in rural towns of the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$22,000
To support the 2004 Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The key components of the festival will be the premiere of a commissioned work, artists in residence, and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
$10,000
To support presentation and residency activities by classical and jazz ensembles performing both genres. Activities include performances by the String Trio of New York and the Ron Carter Ensemble, panel discussions broadcast on local public radio, and high school lecture-demonstrations.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities. The concerts will match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$13,500
To support Music at Angel Fire's 21st Anniversary Festival. The festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, and Taos.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the MATA 2004 Festival. The week-long, new music festival, held at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City, will include performances, commissions, field-related workshops, and educational programs.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Nashville, TN
$12,500
To support the biennial guitar festival. American composer David Balakrishnan will be commissioned to write a new work for two guitars, violin, and chamber orchestra, and the work will be premiered during the 2004 festival.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$65,000
To support Beethoven by Mahler, an exploration of Beethoven's symphonies in score editions that were prepared and edited by Gustav Mahler. Concerts will take place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and are scheduled for a subsequent East Coast tour through North Carolina and Florida, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (consortium)
Newark, NJ
$50,000
To support co-festivals commemorating the 100th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak's death and in celebration of his musical influences on the U.S. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra will present linked Dvorak festivals, using the composer's 9th Symphony as a programming centerpiece.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$60,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. The program, under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, will prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

New York Philharmonic (Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support Contemporary Perspectives, a series that will feature diverse works by contemporary composers. The New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Lorin Maazel, will perform world premieres as well as repeat performances of previously commissioned works at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. Composers will include Ingram Marshall, Anthony De Ritis, Bright Sheng, and Jackie Hairston.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$20,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 58th annual music festival, directed by Kent Nagano, will present the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, pianist Till Filner, and pianist and composer Ichero Nodaira.

OK MOZART, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$15,000
To support the 20th annual OK Mozart International Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and chorus.

Orchestra 2001, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the recording and performances of works by American composer George Crumb. The project will present The American Song Cycle in Philadelphia, Swarthmore, PA, and New York City.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support OM10, the 10th annual Other Minds new music festival. At least two new works will be premiered by virtuoso musicians during the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
To support the West Coast premiere of Argentinian composer Luis Bacalov's Misa Tango, performed with the Pacific Symphony.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$55,000
To support the American Composers Festival: Tradewinds from China. The Pacific Symphony will present new and existing works by Chinese American composers in concert and through educational programs.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a vocal music project exploring the art of song, beginning with Medieval chant and continuing through to American cabaret. Performances will be augmented by master classes and lectures conducted by guest artists and scholars.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$90,000
To support the exploration of composer Olivier Messiaen's works, a programming initiative for the inaugural season of music director Christoph Eschenbach. The orchestra will perform four weeks of orchestral chamber music programs spanning Messiaen's career.

Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band (Piffaro)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the presentation and recording of a concert for organ and Renaissance wind instruments, including the production of a booklet pertaining to pipe organs and wind instruments of the period.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Samson in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto. The performances, directed by music director Nichalos McGegan, will be preceded by free concert lectures.

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support composer residencies, commissions, and recordings. Composers Henry Brant, Derek Bermel, Ben Johnston, and Jerome Kitzke will work with the ensemble in preparation for premieres and recordings of their work.

Relache, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support commissions, performances, and outreach activities in the Future Sounds series. Composers Ikue Mori, TiyJ Giraud, and Kamran Ince will each co-curate with the ensemble one of three programs in which the commissioned premieres will be performed and presented in Philadelphia and Wilmington, DE.

Saint Louis Symphony Society
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support the Symphony Society's 125th anniversary celebration by highlighting works the Saint Louis Symphony has premiered during its long history. The project will include a commission and premiere of a new work by Robert Kapilow.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support commissions and performances of contemporary American works. The concert series, "American Music of Our Time," will include premiere works by Paul Schoenfeld and Roberto Sierra, as well as works by John Cage, Lucas Foss, Osvaldo Golijov, David Hahn, and Tan Dun.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the commission and presentation of a concert-length choral music and theater work based on 12th-century composer and spiritual leader Hildegard von Bingen. Composers Steven Stucky, Regis Campo, and Jeeyoung Kim will collaborate with Chanticleer and music director Joseph Jennings in creating the new work.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the 22nd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. Events will take place in multiple performance spaces throughout San Francisco during the two-week festival.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the Beethoven and His Contemporaries Festival and national broadcasts of the performances. The three-week, ten-concert festival will include Beethoven's orchestral, operatic, and chamber repertoire, and will include works of other late 18th- and early 19th-century composers.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the 32nd annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The festival will include a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support a co-commission and related performances of a new work by American jazz composer and performer Chick Corea. The intended work will be written for the Orion String Quartet.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$15,000
To support Dvorak in America, a festival on the life and music of Antonin Dvorak, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Plans include three chamber music concerts, three open rehearsals for area school students, and a concert using slides, musical excerpts, and commentary by music director Jeffrey Kahane.

Schubert Club, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, a four-day event focusing on the art song through recitals, master classes, and lectures. The festival will feature six singers in recitals at the Central Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support Uniting Symphonic Voices: The Journey of the American Symphony, 1880-1950 and a Stravinsky Festival. The festivals will include educational and outreach components.

Sioux City Symphony Orchestra Association
Sioux City, IA
$10,000
To support the Dvorak in America festival, including concerts, educational programs, and art exhibits commemorating the 100th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak's death.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$60,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony, a unique ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country. The Sphinx Symphony will perform two concerts at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, each featuring young soloists.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$22,500
To support the Stanford Jazz Workshop's jazz residency program, an intensive professional development program for emerging and established jazz musicians. The project will include artists such as Gene Bertoncini, Jimmy Cobb, Regina Carter, Ray Drummond, Hank Jones, and Ellis Marsalis serving as performers and faculty members.

Stecher and Horowitz Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
To support educational and career development components of the New York Piano Competition for young musicians. The project will include performance, coaching, ensemble playing, and educational seminars at the Manhattan School of Music.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$25,000
To support, through a Chairman's extraordinary action award, the statewide coordinator's position and related costs for the National Symphony Orchestra's American Residency Program in Tennessee.

Tucson Symphony Society
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support a commissioning and presentation project celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Performances of new works by five composers will be presented in Tucson, as well as in Green Valley, Oro Valley, and Ajo, AZ.

Twentieth Century Consort
Takoma Park, MD
$10,000
To support concerts celebrating the 75th birthday of composer George Crumb. Performances will take place at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO
$10,000
To support the 34th annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival. The three-day festival will present the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Gary Burton/Makoto Ozone Duo, The Real Group, and Jeff Coffin.

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
$15,000
To support performances of Osvaldo Golijov's Las Pasin Segn San Marcos (St. Mark's Passion) during the 2005 Oregon Bach Festival.

Vail Valley Music Festival (Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek)
Vail, CO
$10,000
To support the 17th annual Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, a commissioned work, open rehearsals, public workshops, educational outreach concerts, and young artist programs.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
To support chamber music concerts as part of the 2004 festival. Programs will feature the Imani Winds, composer-in-residence Chen Yi, chamber performances led by pianist and festival artistic director Andr-Michel Schub, and the Miami String Quartet.

Virginia Orchestra Group
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
To support the Exploring Beethoven Festival. Conducted by music director JoAnn Falletta, performances will feature Beethoven's symphonies and chamber works.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitals. Performances will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the French Embassy, Strathmore Hall, and at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

VocalEssence (Plymouth Music Series, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the Witness program, an annual celebration of musical contributions by African-American composers. The program will include educational events, a young people's concert, a residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, a commissioned work by an emerging composer, and regional and national broadcasts.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians, winners of annual auditions, in New York City and Washington, DC.

Heritage & Preservation

Boise State University (on behalf of Boise Chamber Music Society)
Boise, ID
$7,000
To support chamber music concerts and residency activities. Two ensembles, eighth blackbird and the Miro String Quartet, will perform an evening concert, give a master class, and provide educational outreach concerts for underserved elementary students.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Lost Jazz Shrines:The Village Gate (Part 2), a concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower-Manhattan jazz venues. During 2005, the series will highlight artists who once played at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$20,000
To support compact disc recordings of works by American composers. Fourteen compact discs will represent either a premiere release or a new release of an out-of-print recording from a variety of composers, including Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, and Elliott Carter.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation (on behalf of California Institute for Preservation of Jazz)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
To support a festival honoring the music of 1990 NEA Jazz Master Gerald Wilson. Activities will include the commissioning and performance of a new work by Wilson, master classes, and the initiation of a Gerald Wilson Collection archives.

California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc. (on behalf of Luckman Fine Arts Complex)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Dolphy in Depth: 75 Years of the Life and Music of Eric Dolphy. The festival celebrating the great Los Angeles-born jazz musician and composer in performances by the Luckman Jazz Orchestra, under the leadership of James Newton, will also include a symposium featuring jazz scholars and collaborating musicians.

Chicago Classical Recording Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a CD recording of the works of composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The Chicago Sinfonietta, the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble Quartet, and other artists will perform on the recording.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support performances of music of the African diaspora. The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble (New BMRE) will conduct six residencies in schools and community venues, performing a broad spectrum of African-American music styles and genres.

Concert Royal, Inc.
Larchmont, NY
$10,000
To support musicians' fees and workshop costs toward the development of Prince of Haiti/King of Paris, a new work for music and dance. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Haitian independence, the work will juxtapose the French baroque music of 18th-century colonists with Haitian music of the same period.

Dale Warland Singers (consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
To support a consortium project to inventory, catalog, and transfer the chorus's 32-year historical archive and music library to a permanent repository. The archives will be at the University of Minnesota Library, making the contents more easily accessible to scholars, choral directors, composers, and the general public.

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support an archival, two compact disc set spanning the performance history of the quintet. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the compendium will include numerous commissioned premieres and arrangements, as well as the performance of Anniversary Variations on a Theme by Reicha, a five-movement work created by five different composers.

Emory University (on behalf of General Libraries)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support a conference on the life and musical legacy of composer, conductor, and educator William Levi Dawson (1899-1990). The four-day program will include performances of Dawson's choral, orchestral, and chamber works; conversations with scholars about his music; and discussions with noted composers and performers.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$10,000
To support a compact disc recording of the early sacred works of American composer Charles Ives. The recording will include nine previously unrecorded church anthems as well as the 1902 cantata Celestial County, which was recorded in the 1970s by the chorus but is no longer available to the public.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program, featuring concerts, workshops, and artist residencies in Chicago neighborhoods. Community outreach and learning opportunities will be provided for youth and adults throughout the city.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$50,000
To support the Louisville Orchestra Preservation Project. The orchestra will continue documenting, cataloging, conserving, and disseminating its archival collections including its First Edition Recordings label.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
To support the Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy project. Components include archival recordings of the 18th-anniversary MCGJazz series, and a catalog of the Herbie Mann Archive. Each MCGJazz series concert will be recorded in both audio and video formats and will be added to the archive, currently consisting of more than 600 titles.

Melodious Accord, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the recording of choral music arranged or composed by Alice Parker. Two major choral works, Singers Glen and The Ponder Heart, will be recorded and released on Gothic Records/Loft Recording.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support the re-pressing and distribution of a 12 compact disc collection of recordings of historic performances by the Minnesota Orchestra. The set will be distributed to 1,000 music conservatories, schools of music, public libraries, and historical societies at no cost to recipients.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. The project will include string instrument training for youth and adults and performances at various sites in New York City.

National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the International Choral Festival of Negro Spirituals. Local, national, and international choirs will come together in Detroit for daily performances, workshops, clinics, lectures, and demonstrations for soloists and choruses.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the recording of Nathaniel Shilkret's Concerto for Trombone and its release on compact disc. Under the artistic direction of Skitch Henderson, trombone soloist Jim Pugh and the orchestra will perform the work, originally commissioned in 1943 by swing legendTommy Dorsey.

Pegasus Musical Society
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support concerts celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Francisco Courcelle (1705-78), principal composer of the 18th-century Court of Spain. Conducted by music director Grover Wilkins, the Orchestra of New Spain will perform concerts in Dallas as well as outreach to other communities.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support a CD recording of music by composer Pablo Ortiz. The recording will include Ortiz works composed between 1996 and 2003, performed by musicians from the ensemble and singers from San Francisco Chanticleer, and conducted by music director David Milnes.

University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
$20,000
To support the preservation of the Lionel Hampton Collections. Housed as part of the International Jazz Collections of the Lionel Hampton Center at the University of Idaho, the recordings will be readily available for study by scholars and students of jazz.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music and a compact disc recording of men's choral repertoire. The project will advance the multi-year development of an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music, and will make the repertoire widely available for study and performance.

Leadership Initiatives

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
To support Commissioning Music/USA. This landmark program supports the creation and performance of new American music works.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
To support the expansion of the innova® recording label to broaden services to composers and performers. The project will increase the range, quality, and effectiveness of the innova® distribution network, its user-friendly format, and its marketing efforts.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support American Music Center's Virtual Information Center for new American music through its NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org Web sites. NewMusicBox is a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community, and NewMusicJukeBox is a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers.

American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
$140,000
To support services designed to strengthen peer-learning networks, communication, and research within the orchestra field. The project will help nearly 900 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the National Leadership Initiative. Designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field, the project will provide professional services including consultancies, on-site technical assistance, publications, a Web site, and a national conference.

Chorus America (consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field through an annual conference, publications, and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers. The project will benefit approximately 1,400 chorus members.

Chorus America
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support choral conducting workshops for professional conductors. Chorus America and Northwestern University will offer a workshop on orchestral conducting in New York City and a workshop for children's choir conductors in Evanston, IL.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a national conference, including professional development sessions and an early music marketplace, at the biennial Berkeley Festival. The conference and a two-day pre-conference will offer peer forums, workshops, and training sessions for musicians and managers.

International Association for Jazz Education
Manhattan, KS
$35,000
To support workshops, master classes, panel sessions, artists' fees, and production costs during the 32nd annual International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Conference and Music Festival. The January 2005 conference will be held in Long Beach, CA.

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