Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to continue support for programs cultivating relationships between emerging composers and orchestras

Emerging Composers Initiatives

to support Orchestra Tech, a multi-year initiative to explore the uses of technology in symphonic music

Orchestra Tech

to support modeling social practice within orchestras

Fostering a New American Orchestra

to support the National Orchestral Discovery Network, new music readings, and Orchestra Underground concerts

National Orchestral Discovery Network, New Music Readings, and Orchestra Underground Concerts

to strengthen artistic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 15 small orchestras

Small Orchestra Program

to support artistic initiatives and recovery capital

to support developmental activities for diverse composers

Artistic Initiatives

to support the Improvise! festival and conference exploring improvisation and the orchestra

Improvise! Festival

to support its artistic development and to strengthen its administrative capacity

in support of artistic and administrative initiatives

Chamber Orchestra Program

toward the costs of three concerts of contemporary American music

Contemporary Music

to support the preservation of recorded sound collections

Audio Preservation

to support artistic initiatives and services to the field

Concerts and Readings

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Playing it Unsafe, Earshot, and 'So Far...'

toward the costs of commissioning, in a program conducted in cooperation with the New York State Council on the Arts, works of music by contemporary American composers

Contemporary American Composers

Showcasing American Composers/ American Programming

to support the 2007 American Composers Festival, Los Sonidos de Mexico

2007 American Composers Festival

to support the Fund for Artistic Excellence

toward costs of its National Services Initiative

National Services Initiative

toward costs of the 1990 Composers Conference operation, and as permanent endowment for the Conference

Composers Conference

to support the School of Composers, recordings, and concert enhancements at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

School of Composers, Recordings, & Concert Enhancements

to provide a final round of support for the League's efforts to accelerate inclusiveness and equity in American orchestras

Inclusiveness and Equity in American Orchestras

to support the developmental process for new American opera

Composers and the Voice and First Chance

to support the Orchestra Leadership Academy

Orchestra Leadership Academy

to support its festival for emerging composers

Emerging Composers Festival

to support five recordings of operas by Black composers on Black historical topics

Advancing African American Opera

to support a series of convenings of orchestra leaders

Group One Orchestra Convenings

to support the Orchestra’s American Music Festival

American Music Festival

to support planning for a strategic alignment with American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, Inc.

Merger Planning

to support the John Duffy Composers Institute

John Duffy Composers Institute

to support the developmental process of new opera at the John Duffy Composers Institute

to support organizational and programmatic expansion

Composers Now: Blueprint for Expansion: 2023 and Beyond

toward costs of participation in the orchestra forum

Orchestra Forum

to support the American Music Festival and related composer activities

to support planning for diversity and inclusion initiatives

Diversity and Inclusion in the Orchestra Field

to support artistic inititives and capacity building

Artistic Initiatives (First Chance, Composers and The Voice) and Capacity Building

to support the Conductors/Composers Workshop

Conductors/Composers Workshop

to support the American Conducting Fellows Program

American Conducting Fellows Program

to support a regranting program for diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancies for American orchestras

DEI Regranting Program 

to continue support for the Catalyst program, to advance equitable and inclusive practices in American orchestras

Catalyst Fund

to support the development of software and procedures that would facilitate the archiving of the websites of contemporary composers

Archiving Composers' Websites

to support productions of three new contemporary operas by US composers

US Composers Production Support

toward costs of establishing a research program and an information center

Orchestra Research

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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