Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Merger with American Music Center

to support a new commissioning program aimed at works of the African diaspora

National Commissioning Network

toward costs of an institutional assessment

Institutional Assessment

Music Alive

Symphony Orchestra Program [Music Alive]

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

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

Merger Planning

to continue support for the Composer Librettist Development Program

The Composer Librettist Development Program

to support the Composer Librettist Development Program

Composer Librettist Development Program

to support the Composer to Center Stage initiative

Composer to Center Stage - Commissioning and Composer Partnership Program

toward costs of the Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

to support a commissioning and composer partnership program

to support the composer residency program Music Alive

Music Alive - Composer Residencies

to support a collaborative composer-in-residence program with The Gotham Chamber Opera, Inc. and Music-Theatre Group, and a new-works administrator position

Composer-in-Residence Program

to continue support for the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Training

to support the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

to support the Composer in Residence program

Composer in Residence

Composer in Residence Program 

to support the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

to support composer-centered artistic initiatives

Composer-Centered Artistic Initiatives

in support of its Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

Composer of the Year and Music for the Spirit Initiatives

to support increased attendance of scholars underrepresented at the annual meeting

Increasing Participation of Underrepresented Groups at the OAH Annual Meeting

to support the developmental process of new operas and organizational capacity

Composer Librettist Development Program and Capacity Building

to support the developmental process for new American opera and capacity building

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

John Duffy Composers Institute

to support the John Duffy Composers Institute

to support its festival for emerging composers

Emerging Composers Festival

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

to support field meetings and the dissemination of findings from a research study in nine US cities

Field Meetings

to support the developmental process for new American opera

Composers and the Voice and First Chance

to support artistic inititives and capacity building

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

to support facilitation and meeting costs related to an assessment of the programs and services among the three dance-related organizations, and a convening with leaders in the New York dance community

NYC Dance Mapping and Bessie Awards Leaders Meeting

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

Composers Conference

toward costs of a meeting on Slovakia's privatization plan prior to its submission to the Slovak Parliament

EEP - Privatization Meeting

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

Emerging Composers Initiatives

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

to support a series of symposia on the changing state of the American orchestra

Meet Up San Francisco - Talking About American Orchestras

to support a national meeting of African-American women playwrights

African American Women Playwrights Annual Meeting

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

School of Composers, Recordings, & Concert Enhancements

to support developmental activities for diverse composers

Artistic Initiatives

Showcasing American Composers/ American Programming

to support the pedagogical needs of students from diverse backgrounds

Meeting the Needs of New-Majority Students

to increase its efficiency in distributing recordings of serious contemporary music

Experimental Direct-Marketing Campaign

for use of MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, New Hampshire, a working retreat for composers and other artists

National Endowment for the Humanities

to support organizational and programmatic expansion

Composers Now: Blueprint for Expansion: 2023 and Beyond

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

Improvise! Festival

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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