Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support capacity building for a festival celebrating classical musicians of African descent

Gateways Festival

to continue support for a festival celebrating contributions of African American orchestral and chamber musicians and its first tour to New York City

to support the incoming president and artistic director’s vision

Expansive Vision for Gateways Music Festival

to support a strategic planning consultancy

GMF Strategic Planning

Black Orchestral Network

Spring for Music Orchestra Festival

to support the Orchestra’s American Music Festival

American Music Festival

to support the American Music Festival and related composer activities

Spring for Music

Bard Music Festival

to support ensemble appearances at the 2007 Ojai Music Festival

Ojai Music Festival

toward costs of inaugurating the Bard Music Festival

to support the programs of the American Dance Festival

Connecticut College: Theater Component, Project: Music and Dance, Total Theater - American Dance Festival

to support its festival for emerging composers

Emerging Composers Festival

to support planning for the Illuminating Islam festival

Illuminating Islam Festival 

to support Prototype, an annual contemporary opera music-theater festival

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

to support musician training and artistic activities

Music Festival

to support strategic planning and execution of the Bloodlines Interwoven Festival

Contemporary Global Music Aesthetics at the Bloodlines Interwoven Festival

to support a Spring for Music: Orchestras Alive! festival of North American orchestras

Spring for Music - Orchestras Alive - Festival of North American Orchestras

to support planning for an annual festival of concerts by North American orchestras, Spring for Music, at Carnegie Hall

Spring for Music 

to support transition and start-up costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger With American Music Center 

to support a seminar on music training and performance

Music Seminar 

to support the Music Alive orchestral residency program

Music Alive Residencies

toward costs of establishing its Music Performance Program

Chamber Music Program

to support the UBUNTU Festival's online arts and humanities content, and a recital by Pretty Yende

UBUNTU: Music and Arts of South Africa Festival

to support a commissioning program for classical music

Classical Music Commissioning Program

to support the composer residency program Music Alive

Music Alive - Composer Residencies

to support a national study of the chamber music field

Chamber Music Field Study

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

Improvise! Festival

to support a collaborative project among public media stations to help shape the future of classical music on radio

Station Resource Group Inc - Classical Music Rising

toward costs of the Lincoln Center Festival

Summer Festival

to support research and planning for New Music Hubs

Planning for New Music Hubs

Obsidian Theatre Festival

to support the establishment of an endowment for the Live Music for Dance program

Live Music for Dance Endowment 

to support its 2005 youth company summer play festival

Summer Play Festival

2004 Dance Festival

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

to endow opera and music theater programs

Opera and Music - Theatre Endowment

Lincoln Center Festival

for support of Aspen Music School in Aspen, Colorado

Support of Aspen Music School

to support continued development of the Database of Recorded American Music

Database of Recorded American Music

to support further development of the Database of Recorded American Music

to support the 2005 International Hispanic Theatre Festival

International Hispanic Theatre Festival

to support the For Freedoms Festival, a national conference and partner convention

For Freedoms Festival 2020

to support local and international artist fees and logistics for the Ubumuntu Arts Festival and organizational development

Ubumuntu Arts Festival 

to support the continued planning, design, and implementation of the Database of Recorded American Music

to support the planning, design, and prototype implementation of the Database of Recorded American Music

to support the continued development of a database of recorded music for distribution to academic institutions

Database of American Music V

to support Music Alive, online media programs, and capacity building

Music Alive, Online Media Programs, and Capacity Building

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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