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League Leading: August 2017

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Orchestras’ education and community engagement work is growing; A time to act; Symphony magazine celebrates the League’s 75th anniversary; In case you missed it—our National Conference; First League Giving Day kicks off 75th anniversary; Jesse Rosen on the future of American orchestras; The League represents orchestras and musicians at home and abroad; Member orchestras—and the League—invest in innovation; Orchestra musicians inspire, on the stage and off; It’s essential to nurture the next generation of leaders; Abuzz: “Connecting to this group renews, refreshes, and inspires…”

A Time to Act

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The recent events in Charlottesville have escalated divisiveness and intolerance in America to a frightening degree. The persistence of racism, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, Nazism, and other hate groups continues to be cause for profound concern as they threaten America’s founding principles of equality. Indeed, our Constitution, to say nothing of the countless lives lost defending it, offers an unequivocal basis for complete condemnation of these ideologies.

FY17 Challenge America

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 106 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2017, totaling $2,435,000. In FY17 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 2,133 and totaled $51,421,000 million.

FY17 Art Works (Part 2)

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 106 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2017, totaling $2,435,000. In FY17 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 2,133 and totaled $51,421,000 million.

FY17 Art Works (Part 1)

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 106 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2017, totaling $2,435,000. In FY17 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 2,133 and totaled $51,421,000 million.

FY17 NEA Grants to Orchestras

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded 106 grants to orchestras through the Grants for Arts Projects categories in FY2017, totaling $2,435,000. In FY17 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 2,133 and totaled $51,421,000 million.

League Leading: March 2017

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Now more than ever, it’s important to come together; In case you missed them — three seminal studies; Everyone can be an orchestra advocate; Where do you find 400 leaders?; There’s a growing will in the U.S. for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the orchestra field; League co-convenes Music Alive composer/orchestra teams; Abuzz: “I have found the League’s services invaluable …

League Statement on Travel Ban Executive Order

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The music that orchestras play and the communities they serve are global and include people and cultures from the seven countries that are now subject to the travel ban issued by executive order on January 27. We firmly believe that concerns related to national security can be addressed while also continuing to welcome people beyond our borders.

CITES Treaty Negotiations Include Musical Instrument Policies

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The League of American Orchestras was a voice for the music community in what is being called “game changing” treaty negotiations over international protected species rules. The 17th conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was the largest event in the treaty’s more than 40-year history, and the array of issues under consideration included two key areas that will impact the rules for musical instruments that cross borders among the 183 party countries.

Federal funding: your summer homework with elected officials

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Given that this is an election year, the House and Senate are taking a long summer recess, which makes the prospects uncertain for the federal budget to be completed. Bills that are of importance to the orchestra community are on the move, and here is the latest on where things stand for…