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Digital Media Digest: September 2019

$150k to the SPCO; Turns out online opera is a good idea; Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts; Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ gets brilliant encore, bound for TV; What is Spotify thinking with its ‘Dance Like Nobody’s Paying’ ad campaign?; Spotify tops 108 million paying subscribers; Spotify abruptly shuts down its direct upload & distribution plans; For new video game music, Salt Lake City is becoming a hotspot; Digital tools and community first — A bright future for the TSO; Taylor Swift says she will rerecord her old music. Here’s how; U.S. copyright office awards mechanical licensing collective contract to NMPA bid; Amazon music has 32 million subscribers — and a 70% yearly growth rate; Is traditional radio about to crash?; Apple decides to invest in original podcasts — Putting a buzzkill on Spotify’s expansion; Exploring an immersive future in classical music; Imagine being immersed in the OSM — without the orchestra present; Stanford researchesrs point to dramatic improvements in virtual reality sound; Apple music’s analytics dashboard for artists is offically out of beta; Spotify, Apple, Pandora, Amazon, Google, warns against ditching PRO consent decrees; Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, Google/Alphabet protest streaming royalty rate increases; Commentary: Classical streaming has arrived. How do the new services stack up?;

Travel with Instruments Update

Following three years of consensus-building among music stakeholders, governmental authorities, and conservation experts, policy requests put forward by the League of American Orchestras (the League) and partners in the international music community gained approval today at the gathering of 183 parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), where musical instruments in use by musicians across the globe were on the agenda August 17 through 29, alongside urgent new policies shaped to address threats to plant and animal species worldwide.

Assessment Board Announces Plan to Eliminate Nation’s Arts Report Card

In late July, the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) announced its intention to narrow the breadth of subjects assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), eliminating the next Nation’s Arts Report Card, the only nationally-reported measurement of what students know and are able to do in the arts.

FY19 Challenge America

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 100 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2019, totaling $2,212,500. In FY19 orchestras directly received NEA grant support through Challenge America and Art Works in the discipline categories of music, arts education, and media arts. Awards to all arts disciplines through the NEA’s largest grant categories – Art Works and Challenge America – numbered 2,087 and totaled $48,495,000.

FY19 Art Works (Part 2)

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 100 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2019, totaling $2,212,500. In FY19 orchestras directly received NEA grant support through Challenge America and Art Works in the discipline categories of music, arts education, and media arts. Awards to all arts disciplines through the NEA’s largest grant categories – Art Works and Challenge America – numbered 2,087 and totaled $48,495,000.

FY19 Art Works (Part 1)

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 100 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2019, totaling $2,212,500. In FY19 orchestras directly received NEA grant support through Challenge America and Art Works in the discipline categories of music, arts education, and media arts. Awards to all arts disciplines through the NEA’s largest grant categories – Art Works and Challenge America – numbered 2,087 and totaled $48,495,000.

FY19 NEA Grants to Orchestras

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 100 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2019, totaling $2,212,500. In FY19 orchestras directly received NEA grant support through Challenge America and Art Works in the discipline categories of music, arts education, and media arts. Awards to all arts disciplines through the NEA’s largest grant categories – Art Works and Challenge America – numbered 2,087 and totaled $48,495,000.

League Leading: March 2019

Catalyst Fund to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in American orchestras; Orchestra leaders to gather in Nashville, June 3-5, for League Conference;
League promotes women composers;
Volunteer Council supports orchestra volunteers across the U.S.; Abuzz: “The time…was so powerful that I expect to benefit for the rest of my life.”; Resources at your fingertips

Orchestra Boardroom: March 2019

A Glance at Innovations in the Field; Your Orchestra Needs Your Voice; Why EDI Matters in the Orchestra World; Maps Show Your Orchestra’s Reach;
Supporting Charitable Giving as New Tax Laws Hit Home;

League Leading: December 2018

Twelve faces of the future; Preventing sexual harassment – a workshop and other resources; Get to know your legislators; Abuzz: “I want to thank the League for all the work that it does…; Resources at your fingertips