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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

Orchestra Boardroom: November 2018

Reflecting Our Communities Through Music; Know Where to Go for Reliable Information on Board Governance; IRA Charitable Rollovers Remain a Good Option; Why Don’t We Talk About Music?; The Knowledge Center: A Help Desk for Orchestras