Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

General Support

to support five recordings of operas by Black composers on Black historical topics

Advancing African American Opera

to support organizational development for the record label BMOP/sound

Organizational Development - BMOP/sound

to support the Recording New Music for Tomorrow initiative

Recording New Music for Tomorrow Initiative

supplemental award for permanent endowment

Symphony Orchestra Program

to strengthen artistic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 15 small orchestras

Small Orchestra Program

to support the orchestra’s artistic development and to strengthen its administrative capacity

toward costs of a project on the History of Modern Freedom

Modern Freedom Project

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

to support its artistic development and strengthen its administrative capacity

in support of artistic and administrative initiatives

Chamber Orchestra Program

toward costs of the Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

toward costs of filming a presentation by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on the public television network as part of a series of programs aimed at building new audiences for music on television

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Film Presentation

toward construction of additional facilities for musicians and for soundproofing backstage areas of the Music Shed at Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts

Facilities Support

to support the Tanglewood conference on the role of music directors and conductors

Summer Planning Session

to support the Tanglewood Music Center’s Interarts Initiative

Tanglewood Music Center's Interarts Initiative

New Media and Artistic Initiatives

matching grant to develop ways of increasing earned and contributed income

Period Instrument Orchestras

toward costs of participation in the orchestra forum

Orchestra Forum

to support the upgrading and modernization of statistical data collection systems, and research into orchestra pension plans and audience development

Collaborative Data Project and Pension Research

to support costs for one year of interim distribution of the MoMA Digital Design Collection by Luna Imaging, Inc. and for essential updating of catalogue data

Digital Design Collection Project

to support Orchestra Tech, a multi-year initiative to explore the uses of technology in symphonic music

Orchestra Tech

to expand the activities of its Boston Program

Boston Program

to support curatorial research and dissemination about modernist Caribbean visual practices

The Caribbean Modernisms Project

to support a pilot project for conservation documentation in digital form

Conservation Documentation Pilot Project 

to support the development of a database on the activities of British orchestras

Orchestra Research Project

to support the creation of a JSTOR collection of modern language and literature journals

JSTOR Modern Language and Literature Journals

to support the National Orchestral Discovery Network, new music readings, and Orchestra Underground concerts

National Orchestral Discovery Network, New Music Readings, and Orchestra Underground Concerts

to develop its institutional archives program

Archives Project

to support the 2009 Sphinx Chamber Orchestra Tour

Sphinx Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Tour

to support the creation of community-based archiving and digital scholarship in the development of the Boston Research Center

Boston Research Center

to provide for costs related to the Digital Design Collection

to create and promote access to a digital database of the museum’s architecture and Design Collection

to support the interim distribution of the Museum’s Digital Design Collection

to plan new National Faculty programs in school-districts located in Pittsburgh and Boston

Urban Schools - Boston/Pittsburgh

matching endowment for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

matching endowment for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

matching endowment for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Lakota Music Project

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 