New Music USA has announced its ninth round of project grant awards supporting new American music projects in 27 states, a total of $529,420 for 114 awarded projects. The Allentown Symphony Orchestra is among the recipients and will premiere a commissioned work by Christopher Theofanidis marking the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, to be performed in March 2020 and conducted by Music Director Diane Wittry. The work exploring nature and the environment will be performed as a companion to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Also receiving funding are a reimagining of Scott Joplin’s 1911 opera Treemonisha, with a new libretto and expanded musical language, to premiere in April 2020 at California’s Stanford Live series; and a July 14 performance at the Caramoor Festival of John Luther Adams’s songbirdsongs featuring Sandbox Percussion and piccolo players Emi Ferguson and Catherine Gregory, as part of a day of performances of bird-themed music. Click here for more information about the New Music USA grants.
Posted July 15, 2019
