National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

New York City. Engagement activities will include Conversations with the Creators series, and Do You Hear What
I Hear? series. Concerts will be broadcast live on WCRB-FM as well as available online on WGBH's BSO Concert
Channel and on the BSO's website.
Bowdoin International Music Festival (aka Bowdoin International Music Festival)
$12,500 Brunswick, ME
To support the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Repertoire for the resident teaching festival will include
works from the standard repertoire as well as new music. Within the larger music festival, new music will be
programmed during the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, which may include works by Kenji Bunch,
Anne Akiko Meyers, and Ellen Zwilich. Community engagement activities may include student concerts in public
libraries, social service agencies, and senior centers.
Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail)
$15,000 Vail, CO
To support Bravo! Vail, an annual music festival. The summer festival will feature orchestral concerts by the
Dallas Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as chamber music
performances and open rehearsals. Educational and community engagement events may include Little Listeners
@ the Library, instrument petting zoos, and Bravo! Vail After Dark, which will present concerts in nontraditional
venues. Related project activities may include pre-concert lectures led by musicologists and free concerts
throughout the Vail Valley.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. (aka Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO))
$10,000 Buffalo, NY
To support An American Siddhartha, a program of music and dance. Based on Hermann Hesse's novel, the
collaborative project will be developed in partnership with the Lehrer Dance Company. The program will
represent a re-imagining of a dance concept explored previously by Founder and Artistic Director Jon Lehrer
with new choreography set to orchestral music drawn from existing repertoire. Led by Music Director JoAnn
Falletta, the performance will take place at the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North Campus in
Amherst, New York.
Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (aka Carnegie Hall)
$90,000 New York, NY
To support the series Three Generations, an exploration of the changing direction of concert music. Curated by
composer Steve Reich, the programs will trace the development of new music from the generation of his
contemporaries including John Adams, Philip Glass, Arvo Part, and Terry Riley to composers associated with the
Bang on a Can collective, and finally to voices of the next generation, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly. Musicians
scheduled to perform include Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, JACK Quartet, violinist Todd Reynolds,
and violist Nadia Sirota, among many others. Educational activities will include discussions with the composers
during the performances.
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc. (aka Orchestra Iowa)
$10,000 Cedar Rapids, IA
To support Orchestra Iowa's Jazz & Beyond Celebration festival. The week-long festival will include presentations
by local jazz artists and ensembles, programs for local high school and college jazz bands, community lectures,
panel discussions, and a master class. The festival will conclude with performances featuring saxophonist and
NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis. The performances will take place at the newly reconstructed Hancher
Auditorium in Iowa City and at the Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.