Conference 2017: Constituency Meetings (with post-Conference presentations)
Orchestra administrators, musicians, trustees, and volunteers gathered in Detroit for the League’s 72nd National Conference. Below are some of the highlights.
Conference 2017: Highlights
Orchestra administrators, musicians, trustees, and volunteers gathered in Detroit for the League’s 72nd National Conference. Below are some of the highlights.
FY17 Challenge America
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)
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)
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
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
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 …
Building Millennial Audiences: Barriers and Opportunities
Arts organizations could help attract millennials by clarifying pricing and better explaining the value of the arts, suggests this Wallace-commissioned synthesis of market research.
Tips for Musicians Travelling through TSA Automated Lanes (February 15, 2017)
The Transportation Security Administration is using a new automated bin system at Newark, Chicago O’Hare, Los Angeles, and Atlanta airports. We spoke with officials at TSA headquarters and received the following tips for musicians that hand carry their instruments when flying by air: Musical instruments may be screened through both TSA Pre✓® and regular TSA lanes that use …
Symphony Magazine: #Hashtag Orchestra
How can orchestras attract—and keep—millennial audiences? Experimentation abounds.