Project Grant 18570673620

Opera Lafayette received a $198,750 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The award will support the recovery and production of three 18th century French operas in Washington D.C. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Specifically, Opera Lafayette will create educational programming and materials to encourage humanistic interpretation of early music through lecture videos,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to the Michigan Opera Theatre through the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant funds will support infrastructure revisions to improve accessibility and enhance educational spaces at the Detroit Opera House. Specifically, planned modifications will provide better accessibility and patron comfort, increase the number of spaces available for hosting programs, and upgrade dated...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $349,987.00 to develop software tools, datasets, and pedagogical materials for computational musicology analysis. The project, titled "HUMDRUM(R): COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR MUSICOLOGICAL AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH," aims to create new data and expand existing HUMDRUM tools to facilitate the digital study of non-Western music,...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the creation of a critical edition of the works of American composers George and Ira Gershwin. The Regents of the University of Michigan will receive $575,000 to produce scholarly yet practical editions that restore the brothers' artistic intentions for landmark musical scores such as Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess. As part of the Promotion of the Humanities Research program, the University...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $160,000 Project Grant to the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Inc. to support the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for high school students from March 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. This funding supports the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to provide opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education. Through this award, the National Alliance for...

This federal Project Grant award of $514,757 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) will enable the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) to preserve, digitize, and increase public access to its historical collection of conductor scores and performance sets dating from the early 20th century to 1980. Project activities include cataloging, transporting, digitizing, storing, and publicly sharing this important collection,...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Colour Of Music, Inc., doing business as Colour Of Music Festival, to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and...

The Philadelphia Orchestra Association received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), with a completion date of August 31, 2023. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all...

The Klezmer Institute Inc. will receive $297,120 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the Kelisegof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions. This project aligns with the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) by making available early 20th century European Jewish music manuscripts to broaden accessible resources and contextualize the work of renowned ethnomusicological researchers. Specifically, the Institute will edit and publish...

This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) to the New York Shakespeare Festival, doing business as The Public Theater, a nonprofit arts organization in New York City. The grant funding will be used for plaster and finish repairs to the organization's historic theater facility, ensuring the conservation of this culturally significant property in accordance with the Secretary...