New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the
American Music Center
New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the American Music Center with Meet The Composer on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media program ...
with
Meet The Composer
New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the American Music Center with Meet The Composer on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media progra ...
on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media programs originally created at the American Music Center:
NewMusicBox
''NewMusicBox'' is an e-zine launched by the American Music Center on May 1, 1999. The magazine includes interviews and articles concerning American contemporary music, composers, improvisers, and musicians.
A few interviews include renowned A ...
and
Counterstream Radio.
American Music Center
The American Music Center (AMC) was a
non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
organization which aimed to promote the creating, performing, and enjoying new American music. It was founded in 1939 as a membership organization by composers
Marion Bauer
Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.
As a composer, ...
,
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...
,
Howard Hanson
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981)''The New York Times'' – Obituaries. Harold C. Schonberg. February 28, 1981 p. 1011/ref> was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American class ...
,
Harrison Kerr
Harrison Kerr (b. Cleveland, Ohio, October 13, 1897; d. Norman, Oklahoma, August 1978) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, editor, administrator, and educator.
He studied in Cleveland, Ohio with James H. Rogers, in Paris ...
,
Otto Luening
Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music.
Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conducto ...
, and
Quincy Porter
William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music.
Biography
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David St ...
.
For many years the main activity of the center was the accumulation of a library of American music which accepted score submissions from all composers who joined as members. The center's library, which eventually contained over 60,000 individual scores, featured published materials as well as unpublished manuscripts, many of which were unavailable elsewhere. (On June 29, 2001, the entire collection was transferred to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.)
In the 1950s, the Center created a landmark program funded by the Ford Foundation, to commission, perform, and record new American orchestral works, which resulted in 18 commissioned orchestral works, 72 performances, 12 recordings, and a
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
for
John La Montaine
John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, (March 17, 1920 – April 29, 2013) was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No. 1 "In Time of War" (1958), ...
's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The works also include Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes by Paul Klee, with is among the very first Third Stream orchestra works. In the early 1960s, the Center initiated its Copying Assistance Program, later renamed the Composer Assistance Program, which gave grants directly to composers to assist in the preparation of performance materials. In subsequent decades, the center established additional grant programs including one which funded the live performance of music at dance presentations as well as programs to support recorded music. For many years the American Music Center ran the grant program of the Aaron Copland Fund.
In 1999, the American Music Center launched the web magazine ''NewMusicBox,'' and, in 2007,
Counterstream Radio, a 24-hour online station broadcasting music by United States composers. It had grants for composers and ensembles, and offered professional development resources for new music professionals.
For many years, the American Music Center was run by composer Ray Green. Other directors included Margaret Jory, Nancy Clarke, Toni Greenberg, and Richard Kessler. In 2019
Vanessa Reed Vanessa may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Vanessa'' (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais
* ''Vanessa'', a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole
* ''Vanessa'', a 1952 instrumental song written by Bernie ...
was appointed as the new president and CEO.
Meet The Composer
Meet The Composer was a United States organization founded in 1974 by the New York State Council on the Arts. Initially, it was a program at NYSCA called Composer in Performance, after a few years, the Council then asked the American Music Center to take the project over as one of its own program and
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
John Duffy John Duffy may refer to:
Sportspeople
* John Duffy (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), English football centre half for Bradford City
* John Duffy (footballer, born 1922) (1922–1996), Scottish football right back for Clyde and Norwich
* John Duf ...
was hired as program director. John Duffy then gave it the name: Meet The Composer. In later years, Meet The Composer was spun off by the American Music Center as an independent organization run by John Duffy. It sought to assist composers in making a living through
writing music by sponsoring commissioning, residency, education, and audience interaction programs.
Meet The Composer's mission was, "to increase opportunities for composers by fostering the creation, performance, dissemination, and appreciation of their music."
[EarShot Partners]
", ''EarShotNetwork.org''.
In 2005, Meet The Composer was among 406
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the
Carnegie Corporation
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establis ...
, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner, co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. He was Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a ca ...
.
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References
External links
New Music USA (current official site)Meet The Composer (former site) an
American Music Center (former site)NewMusicBoxAmerican Music Center collection of score manuscripts, 1935-1996Music Division, The New York Public Library.
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1974 establishments in New York (state)
Classical music in the United States
Music organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1974