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.
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.
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.
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.
Singer/songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is a classically trained soprano who left the classical world to explore folk music, learning banjo and fiddle and gaining notice as co-founder and lead singer of the string band Carolina Chocolate Drops. The North Carolina native won a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2017, performs in an all-female strings-and-banjo quartet called Our …
With the support of our valued donors, the League continues to have a positive impact on the future of orchestras in America by helping to develop the next generation of leaders, generating and disseminating critical knowledge and information, and advocating for the unique role of the orchestral experience in American life before an ever-widening group …
By Nancy Malitz When furloughed federal employees faced tough times during the partial government shutdown in December and January, orchestras across the country stepped up with free tickets.
By Keith Powers Summer music festivals: a drive-by, divided into five excursions
By Vivien Schweitzer Orchestras are experimenting with concerts that put audience members in close connection with the music—and the musicians. Concert newcomers find new approaches to classical music, and devotees gain fresh perspectives.