2007 MCAF Grantees: Music
- Chan, Frieda, Kappa IV Community Concert Series
- To support a series of two free chamber music performances in March/April 2007 featuring four infrequently performed works from the 18th and 20th Centuries, geared toward an underserved family audience in Harlem, performed by the Metropolitan Chamber Players, a young group of seven recent graduates from Stonybrook University and Julliard School
- Ensemble Pi, When Words Fail: Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War
- To support a concert entiltled "When Words Fail" exploring the meanings of peace in a time of war at the Judson Church in the West Village featuring the music of Frederic Rzewski, Kristin Norderval, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alice Shields, Philip Wharton and John Harbison
- Eppler, Jack, Holy Apostles Community Chorus Holiday Concert
- To support a free holiday concert for a community chorus
- Friends of the Choral Society, Inc., Concert for Peace: Choral and Orchestral Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
- To support the public performance of choral-orchestral music in one of New York City's finest architectural landmarks
- Hadfield, John, 2nd Annual Capital M World Premiere Extravaganza
- To support a concert of seven works by classical and jazz composers, including five world premieres written for Capital M's unique electric chamber instrumentation
- Melodia Women's Choir of NYC, Inc., Spring 2007 Concert by Melodia Women's Choir
- To promote the Melodia Women's Choir 2007 Concert, celebrating women's vocal ensembles throughout the centuries, and including a work in-process performance of excerpts from a new commissioned work by Becca Schack
- New York African Chorus Ensemble, Inc., A Night of African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music
- To support artist fees for nine guest artists in the production of the New York African Chorus Ensemble Inc. summer 2007 annual concert titled A Night of African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music
- Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church, Music at OSA Concert Series
- To support artistic fees for five concerts
- Polyhymnia Music Foundation, Mexican Baroque Concert
- To support a concert of Mexican Baroque music
- Valtchev, Greorgy, An Evening of Bulgarian Chamber Music
- To support an evening of Bulgarian chamber music to New York's Bulgarian and U.S. community, featuring works by lesser-known Bulgarian composers, performed by recent Julliard graduates from Bulgaria
- Wallace, Ishmael, Voices of the Neighborhood II
- To support three concerts celebrating neighbors' voices in greater West Harlem, to include a cantata setting neighbors' words, a musical play created in collaboration with homeless senior citizens and gospel songs by children
- Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initative, Inc., New Indigenous Voices
- To support five staged readings/performances and post-show discussions of new plays/works by indigenous writers/artists (including workshops by visiting artists at theater institutes, colleges, universities and public schools) at a variety of Manhattan venues including United Nations Headquarters during the annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
