2008 Fund Grantees: Music
- American Modern Ensemble, Inc., American Modern Ensemble: “Women Who Rock” concert
- To support concerts that celebrate American women composers, with the composers in attendance.
- Children’s Aid Society, The, The Youth Chorus Program’s 2007-08 Future Songs of the City Composer Collaboration
- To support the 7th annual Future Songs of the City composer competition, a collaboration between two New York City-based composers and approximately 40 advanced choristers.
- East Winds, Inc., Taikoza Concert Series 2008
- To support the Taikoza Concert Series
- Ensemble Pi, Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War
- To support a concert at the Cooper Union, featuring the music of Frederic Rzewski, Kristin Norderval, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Lou Harrison, and John Harbison.
- Gotham Performing Arts, Inc., Power, Pride, and Majesty!
- To support the orchestra for the Spring community outreach concert.
- Isle of Klezbos, KlezBiGay Pride Show
- To support KlezBiGay Pride Month concert and multimedia celebration by Isle of Klezbos sextet & friends in the East Village, outdoors in El Sol Brillante Garden.
- Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC, Inc., Spring 2008 Concerts by Melodia Women’s Choir
- To support two performances of a program of rarely heard works for women’s voices on the theme of the natural world, performed by an all-women ensemble.
- Orfeo Duo, What a Neighborhood! 2008
- To support eight concerts by local composers which weave in creative voices of neighbors from a variety of backgrounds.
- Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, MOSA Concerts: 2008 Spring Season/ 2008 Fall Season
- To support twelve concerts in MOSA’s Spring 2008 and Fall 2008 seasons.
- Perspectives Ensemble, Inc., MAYA-New Commission Concerts
- To support a major concert featuring three premiers of commissioned works, with composers present.
- Russian Musical Arts Society of America, Inc. (RMASA), Musical Sunset, Night and Sunrise: Russian Choral Miniatures
- To support the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York’s performance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
- Sound of Spring Chorus, Sound of Spring Chorus
- To support choral performances at hospitals, senior centers and nursing homes, and public parks in Chinatown.
- Vocal Ease, Inc., Vocal Ease Cabaret
- To support cabaret-style performances at Manhattan’s public senior centers.
- Young People’s Chorus of New York City, YPC Concert Series
- To support a year-end Winter Concert, a performance of six new pieces commissioned as part of YPC’s Transient Glory series, and a season-culminating Spring Concert
