Followng is a listing of all Alfred Nash Patterson grant recipients. This file was constructed on January 21, 2007 and is updated periodically (last update January 11, 2010). Grant statistics will be added as time permits.
In some cases, information is not available or is incomplete about the grant recipient, amount, or purpose. Hopefully these gaps in knowledge will be filled in as the proper records are located. Please let us know of any errors!
—Peter Pulsifer, Choral Arts New Enghland
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Heron Renaissance Choir Auburndale, MA | $1,000 | For a program at St. Paul Church in Cambridge on October 16 (with a second performance in New York City) of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks. |
| Concord Women's Chorus Concord, MA | $2,000 | For a concert of works by women composers on May 8, 2010 to include a commission of a work by Libby Larsen based on poems by Concord women poets. |
| Connecticut Early Music Society New London, CT | $2,000 | For a concert entitled “Grand Motets in the Era of the Sun King” to include compositions by Lully and Rameau. |
| Counterpoint Montpelier, VT | $1,750 | For a free concert in Burlington on September 26 entitled “Sing for Peace,” which will involve six other Vermont choruses: Bella Voce, Essex Children's Choir, Sounding Joy, Syrinx, Maple Jam, Pumpkin Hill Singers. |
| Crescendo Inc. Lakeville, CT | $1,750 | For a concert of little known treasures of Latin American Renaissance and Baroque choral music. |
| New Haven Chorale New Haven, CT | $2,000 | For a concert on May 16, 2010 featuring the Alturas Duo and Central and South American choral and folk music with indigenous instrumentation; the concert will include Ariel Ramirez's Missa Criolla. |
| New Haven Oratorio Choir and Orchestra New Haven, CT | $1,500 | For organizational restructuring to include a consultant in Arts Management (with the additional help of the Kennedy Center's Arts in Crisis Program). |
| Pro Arte Singers Stamford, CT | $1,000 | For a concert performance of Frank Martin's Songs of Ariel. |
| Zamir Chorale Boston, MA | $1,000 | For an Open Sing in December of Handel's Judas Maccabeus and choral music for Chanukah. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Amare Cantare Durham, NH | $1,100 | To present the Romancero Gitano by Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco, a chamber work for chamber chorus and guitar. Performances will be given in Exeter, Newington and Durham, NH. |
| Cappella Clausura Newtonville, MA | $2,000 | For two concerts of secular motets by Vittoria Aleotti together with the sacred motets of the nun, Rafaella Aleotti, arranged for female voices, with 10 professional singers and three instrumentalists. |
| Chorus of Westerly Westerly, RI | $2,000 | For two performances of Charles Villier Stanford's rarely performed Stabat Mater. The chorus, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will provide a free master class for voice students from local high schools and colleges. |
| Da Camera Singers Amherst, MA | $1,000 | To commission and perform "Elephant Rocks" by Lewis Spratlan, a setting of a poem by Kay Ryan, as part of the group's 35th anniversary season. Performances will be given at Amherst College and as part of the inaugural year of the Rhodes Arts Center at Northfield Mount Hermon School. |
| Emmanuel Music Boston, MA | $1,000 | To support, as part of the Craig Smith Memorial Season, a concert in April 2009 that will include the complete choral motets of J.S. Bach in one evening. |
| The Main Street Singers New Britain, CT | $1,500 | To support establishment of a Junior Choir for children in grades 3–5, a new program that will broaden the scope of the existing chorus, which is an auditioned community chorus for grades 5–8. While the Junior Choir will be open to all children in the New Britain area, the target populations will be boys and African-American and Latino children of both genders. |
| Master Singers Lexington, MA | $2,000 | To support the commissioning of a new work by William Bolcom in honor of the group's 40th anniversary. |
| New Haven Oratorio Choir New Haven, CT | $2,000 | To support a mentorship program, hiring four professionally-trained ensemble singers who will serve as enhanced section leaders and mentors to the group's volunteer singers for the entire 2008–09 season. |
| The Providence Singers Providence, RI | $2,500 | To support the New England premiere of Dominick Argento's Jonah and the Whale and the first commercial recording of that work. The performances will include a children's matinee to introduce choral music to children, particularly those with limited access to performing arts education. |
| Spectrum Singers Cambridge, MA | $1,500 | To support a performance of Franz Schubert's late choral works, called “A Life's Journey Assessed.” In an effort to reach new audiences, a special $15 introductory ticket price has been introduced for new patrons. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bella Voce Womens Chorus of Vermont Essex Junction, VT | $3,000 | To commission a holiday work by Robert De Cormier for women's voices and instrumentation, based on African-American spirituals. |
| Boston Secession Boston, MA | $1,500 | To support the world premiere of Cambridge composer Ruth Loman's Testimony of Witnesses. Based on the poetry of Holocaust victims and survivors, the work is scored for chorus, orchestra and SATB soloists. |
| Brookline Chorus Brookline, MA | $1,500 | To help support the performance Duke Ellington's Sacred Service. |
| Cantemus Lynnfield, MA | $1,500 | To fund the winning entry in a choral composition competition for New England university students. The work eventually will be performed by Cantemus, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary year. |
| Chatham Chorale West Dennis, MA | $1,500 | To support the commission and premiere of Why I Wake Early by Ron Perera. Based on a text by Cape Cod resident Mary Oliver, the work is being co-commissioned by the New Amsterdam Singers of NYC. |
| King's Chapel Concert Series Boston, MA | $1,000 | To help support a year-long homage to Daniel Pinkham. Events will include performances of Pinkham works and commissions of new choral pieces by Carson Cooman and Kevin Siegfried. |
| New England Classical Singers Andover, MA | $1,500 | To partially fund a collaborative performance of the Fauré Requiem with area high school students. Preparation will include master classes at each high school conducted by NECS artistic director David Hodgkins. |
| Oratorio Chorale Brunswick, ME | $1,200 | To cover expenses associated with the Chorale's performance with the Portland Symphony of Vineet Shende's Three Longfellow Poems, a Symphony commission. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bella Voce Womens Chorus of Vermont Essex Junction, VT | $1,000 | To record six works for women's voices in collaboration with Gwyneth Walker. The CDs will be distributed to choral conductors to give the Vermont composer national exposure, and sold to help support the chorus. |
| Capella Clausura Newton, MA | $1,000 | To support an unusual program of music for women's voices, “Dialogues: Opera in the Convents.” In addition to examples of the 16th-century concertato style, the program will include excerpts from Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutem and two selections by contemporary women composers. |
| Convivium Musicum Somerville, MA | $1,000 | To hire six professional instrumentalists for a program of music from 16th-century Spain and Mexico, including a motet for double chorus and instruments, with cornet, trombones, bajŪn, organ and harpist. |
| Coro Allegro Boston, MA | $2,500 | To defray music production and duplication costs for the fall 2006 world premiere of Shofar, an oratorio for soprano, tenor, two bass-baritones, mixed chorus and orchestra by Dr. Robert Stern. |
| Counterpoint Belmont, VT | $1,500 | To support the participation of professional artists in day-long workshops to be held in March and April 2007 at three New England high schools. The culmination of each workshop will be a joint rehearsal and evening concert of multi-cultural works. |
| Nashua Symphony Orchestra and Choral Society Nashua, NH | $1,000 | To launch “The Ripple Effect” program for the creation of new vocal music from student poetry set by professional composers, to be performed by the chorus and orchestra. |
| The New Hampshire Master Chorale Meredith, NH | $3,250 | To support the cost of soloists and collaborative musicians for a major concert in May 2007, to include the U.S. premiere of Qinisela Sibisi's Zulu Mass. |
| The New Haven Chorale New Haven, CT | $2,000 | To support the commission of a new, reduced orchestration of Bloch's Sacred Service, to be premiered in March 2007. |
| Winchester Community Music School Winchester, MA | $1,000 | To fund artistic salaries for a new intergenerational community chorus. With seniors and home-schooled students a special focus, the chorus would combine group vocal training, Dalcroze eurythmics and performance. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Back Bay Chorale Boston, MA | $2,750 | An Artists in Residence Program, with up to eight choral and vocal music students from Boston area music schools, to provide emerging musicians with experience in educational technique and performance and to strengthen relationships between the music education community, chorus, and audience. |
| Boston Cecilia Boston, MA | $3,000 | A concert featuring Handel's dramatic one-act cantata The Choice of Hercules, in only its second performance in the U.S, to be performed with period instruments at Jordan Hall on November 5, 2005. |
| Boston City Singers Dorchester, MA | $1,000 | A commissioned work, Vietnamese Journey, an arrangement of five Vietnamese folk songs for children's chorus by composer Margaret King, to be premiered in the chorus's winter holiday concerts in December 2005, with additional performances during a summer tour in 2006. |
| Cambridge Community Chorus Cambridge, MA | $2,000 | Premiere of a commissioned work by Argentinean composer Luis Bacalov based on the Psalms of David, with text in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, and English, at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, May 21, 2006. |
| Community Chorus at South Berwick South Berwick, ME | $1,300 | A commissioned work from Kevin Siegfried based on writings of Sarah Orne Jewett, to be premiered in an April, 2006 concert called “A River Runs Through Us” that celebrates the region's heritage and the chorus's 30th anniversary. |
| Souhegan Valley Chorus Amherst, NH | $1,500 | Assist in purchasing music for a concert at Souhegan High School Auditorium in May, 2006 of music by, for, and about children. The concert will include children from a local Middle School and is part of an effort by the multi-generational chorus to increase youth membership and expand its audience. |
| Westford Chorus Westford, MA | $1,000 | A commissioned work by composer Stephen Peisch on an “Americana” theme and based on text by American poet/author, to be premiered in the chorus's “Pops” concert in June, 2006. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| The Boston Secession Boston, MA | $1,500 | Live concert of choral music to accompany Jean Cocteau's 1949 film, Orphée, at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA, March 12, 2005 (two performances). |
| Brattleboro Music Center's Repertory Singers Brattleboro, VT | $1,500 | Performance of works by 18th century Cuban composer Esteban Salas, whose music blends Baroque and Caribbean influences and is not generally available in the U.S. |
| Concora New Britain, CT | $1,000 | Concert of “Remembrance and Hope” featuring Donald McCullogh's newly composed Holocaust Cantata, based on Polish folk music and poetry from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archives, to be performed in the Hartford area November 13 & 14, 2004. |
| Concord Chorale Concord, NH | $1,000 | Two holiday performances of Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, to include a treble choir of students from area middle/high schools, December 11 & 12, 2004, in Concord. |
| Coro Allegro Boston, MA | $1,750 | Premiere performance of a commissioned work by composer Patricia Van Ness, a Requiem for SATB chorus, baritone soloist, strings, oboe, and French horn, to be performed in Boston November 4, 2004. |
| Danbury Concert Chorus Danbury, CT | $1,500 | Performance of the Brahms Requiem to be presented free of charge to the Danbury community, May 2005. |
| Newburyport Choral Society Newburyport, MA | $1,000 | Two performances of a commissioned oratorio on an American theme by Charles Fussell, written in celebration of the group's 70th anniversary. To feature soloist Stephen Salters and to include community outreach efforts centered around the piece, including particular effort to enroll high school students in the chorus and public lectures by the composer and soloist. May, 2005. |
| PALS Children's Chorus Brookline, MA | $1,750 | Commission of piece for children's chorus to celebrate PALS's 15th anniversary, to be performed at Jordan Hall on April 3, 2005. |
| Portland Concert Association Portland, ME | $1,000 | Choral Residency Program, a three-day series of education events in October, 2004, to be conducted by University of Michigan Professor Jerry Blackstone (this year's Resident) and to include clinics for local choirs, a recertification workshop for educators, and high school honor choir rehearsals and concert; offered in collaboration with the University of Southern Maine School of Music. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Amare Cantare Durham, NH | $1,000 | Performances March 27 and 28, 2004 of Bach Cantatas No. 21 and No. 131, an event that will enrich the cultural climate of the New Hampshire seacoast region, draw upon various branches of the artistic community, and expand the horizons of this 25-member group. |
| Boston Cecilia and Coro Allegro Boston, MA | $2,500 | Support for a strategic, two-year collaborative partnership for large-scale performances such as Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem in March 2004, and later in the spring the Poulenc Gloria and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. |
| Cambridge Madrigal Singers Cambridge, MA | $1,000 | Support a joint venture with the MacDowell Colony to perform and promote a broad cross-section of 20th century American a cappella choral music and enhance awareness and outreach opportunities for both organizations. |
| Cantemus Ipswich, MA | $2,000 | Annual free Family Concert, designed to educate and excite young audiences about music and its possibilities for them, to introduce new audiences to choral music, and to build this 40-member group's audience and funding base. |
| Greenwich Choral Society Greenwich, CT | $2,500 | To support an effort to bring chorus and community closer through a program of traditional and classical Latin American music to be performed May 2, 2004 with participation from a local children's choir and Latino soloists. |
| The Providence Singers Providence, RI | $1,000 | A new eight-week annual program that will raise the profile of choral education in Rhode Island and nurture young talent. The “Junior Providence Singers @ the Music School” program will culminate in an inaugural performance February 29, 2004. |
| The Seraphim Singers Malden, MA | $1,000 | Commissioning of three new sacred choral works from Boston area composers to be premiered in three sacred spaces during the 2003–2004 season. |
| Women in Harmony Portland, ME | $1,000 | To support marketing, outreach, and audience-building for this 50-member women's chorus that seeks to provide learning opportunities for women, to make choral music accessible to the community, and to promote the work of women composers. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Mad River Chorale for Counterpoint Waitsfield, VT | $1,500 | To assist with artistic costs during a period of new repertoire development and for the inaugural performances of new works for high school audiences by this small, 11-member group under the direction of Robert DeCormier. |
| New England Classical Singers Andover, MA | $2,000 | Provide seed money for launch of a professional support structure for publicity, development and choral arts management. |
| Newton Choral Society Newton, MA | $1,500 | Commission Charles Shadle of New England Seasonal, a cantata of poems of Dickinson, Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau and Frost, to be performed in March 2003. |
| Youth pro Musica West Newton, MA | $2,000 | Contribute to a commission fund for a premiere performance of new works by women composers, to be performed in March 2003. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Brattleboro Music Center Community Chorus Brattleboro, VT | $1,500 | Commission Vermont coposer Paul Dedell to arrange original settings of Shaker songs for chorus and chamber orchestra, to be performed in January 2002. |
| Cantilena Cambridge, MA | $1,500 | Commission a work from Kenneth Seitz and perform a concert of wworks for women's voices from the Second New England Schjool of American Art Music. |
| The Heritage Chorale Framingham, MA | $1,000 | Performance of Thomas Oboe Lee's Mass for the Holy Year 2000, which was premiered at Boston College in April, 2000. The performance will celebrate the chorus's 65th year and John Finney's 15th anniversary as music director. |
| The Master Singers Lexington, MA | $1,500 | To develop a strategic plan and brochure to be used for marketing and development. |
| PALS Children's Chorus Brookline, MA | $2,000 | Commisioning and performance of a work by Turkish-American composer Mehmet Sanlikol, entitled Ergenekon, the performance to be at Jordan Hall in winter or spring of 2002. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Burlington Choral Society Burlington, VT | $1,000 | Performances of Mendelsson's Elijah and J.S. Bach's Saint Matthew Passion during the 2000–2001 season. |
| Coro Allegro Boston, MA | $2,000 | Edit, produce and market a second commercial CD. |
| Keene Chorale, Inc. Keene, NH | $1,000 | Support for hiring orchestra and soloists for one performance during the 2000 concert season. |
| Masterworks Chorale Lexington, MA | $2,000 | For professional soloists who will perform in the “Celebrating Our Chorale Heritage” concert. |
| Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus Greenfield, MA | $1,500 | A performance of Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, at the fine arts center of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
| Providence Singers, Inc. Providence, RI | $1,500 | To support the move to a new venue, the Veterans Memorial Auditorium. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| The Cantata Singers Boston, MA | $1,500 | Commissioning and premiere of a new work by Andy Vores to mark the turning of the millennium. |
| Manchester NH Choral Society Manchester, NH | $1,500 | Performances of the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé on the chorus's 40th Anniversary. |
| Elm City Girls' Choir New Haven, CT | $1,300 | Development of a marketing plan to promote the choir as a premier girls ensemble. |
| Newton Choral Society Newton, MA | $1,200 | Commissioning and premiere of a new work by Patricia Van Ness to mark the 20th Anniversary of David Carrier's tenure as Director of the chorus. |
| Portland ME Community Chorus Portland, ME | $1,000 | The “Festival of Choruses and Beyond” Project in Maine. |
| Spectrum Singers, Inc Cambridge, MA | $1,000 | Support marketing of the Spectrum Singers' 20th Anniversary Gala Commemorative Concert in Jordan Hall. |
| Vermont Symphony Chorus Burlington, VT | $1,500 | Performances of Mozart's Mass in C minor and other works in concerts next season. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Chorus Pro Musica Boston, MA | $4,000 | Opening concert of the 50th Anniversary Season. |
| CONCORA/Connecticut Choral Artists Hartford, CT | $1,000 | A concert of works by Ned Rorem. |
| Providence Singers Providence, RI | $1,000 | The world premier performance of The Passion of Mary Magdalene by Providence composer Elaine Bearer. |
| Portsmouth Women's Chorus Portsmouth, NH | $1,000 | Two performances of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. |
| Northern Harmony Plainfield, VT | $1,000 | Commissioning of a work for a double chorus by Erik Nielsen, to be performed by Northern Harmony on tour in conjuction with local choruses. |
| New Haven Chorale New Haven, CT | $1,000 | A free concert of choral works by two African-American composers. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Baroque Cambridge, MA | $2,800 | A concert of Moravian music, and the research required to develop the concert program. |
| Chorus of Westerly Westerly, RI | $1,000 | A summer choral workshop in New Hampshire directed by the noted English choral conductor, Sir David Willcocks. |
| Convivium Musicum Somerville, MA | $990 | Out-of-state concerts of Renaissance music in Portland, Maine and Providence, Rhode Island. |
| Monadnock Chorus and Orchestra Peterborough, NH | $1,000 | Commissioning of a work by composer John David Earnst, associated with the MacDowell Colony, for a performance to celebrate the MacDowell Colony. |
| P. A. L. S. Brookline, MA | $1,000 | Commissioning and performance a work for children's chorus by Boston composer Bret Silverman, in Winter 1997–98. |
| Zamir Chorale Newton, MA | $1,000 | Commissioning of a work from composer Meira Maxine Warschauer to document the 50th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, to be premiered in spring 1998. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $1,100 | To help the library buy large numbers of copies of 1–2 of the most frequently requested choral works that the library is not able to lend at present. |
| Boston Cecilia Boston, MA | $1,300 | Commissioning and world premiere performance of a new sacred work with a Christmas theme, by Boston composer James Woodman |
| Boston Gay Men's Chorus Boston, MA | $1,000 | Support of a New England regional festival of gay and lesbian choruses. |
| The Master Singers Lexington, MA | $1,000 | A concert that will include the Boston Composers String Quartet. |
| Russian Chamber Chorus Framingham, MA | $1,800 | To help produce the musical scores for, and present the Boston premiere of, Alexander Katalsky's Requiem (Memorial for Fallen Heroes). |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Blanche Moyse Chorale Brattleboro, VT | $2,300 | Two of the concerts of the October, 1995 New England Bach Festival: Bach’s St. John Passion and Bach motets, and the Mass by Frank Martin. |
| Cambridge Madrigal Singers Cambridge, MA | $925 | A concert of polychoral works, “From Venice to Boston,” including a newly-commissioned work by a Boston composer. |
| Coro Allegro Boston, MA | $1,850 | Commissioning a work in celebration of the chorus' fifth anniversary |
| Maine Gay Men's Chorus Portland, ME | $925 | Commissioning a work from Daniel Pinkham for four-part men's chorus and string quartet, for perfomance in July, 1996. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Cecilia Boston, MA | $1,000 | Program of J.S. Bach cantatas that were later incorporated into the Mass in B minor. |
| Boston Gay Men's Chorus Boston, MA | $1,000 | Engineering and producing a recording project of choral works by ten American composers, none previously recorded and seven commissioned by the BGMC. |
| CONCORA/Connecticut Choral Artists Hartford, CT | $1,000 | A concert on October 15, 1994 by the combined chamber choirs of five high schools joining the professional Concora chorus |
| Zamir Chorale Newton, MA | $1,000 | A November, 1994 performance of local premieres of choral works composed in the Terezin concentration camp. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| A Cappella Singers Natick, MA | $1,000 | Thirtieth anniversary concert featuring a cantata by Mrs. H.A.A. Beach. |
| American Choral Directors' Association MA | $1,000 | Festival of community choruses, including commission of a work for the festival by Daniel Pinkham. |
| Blanche Moyse Chorale/New England Bach Festival Brattleboro, VT | $1,000 | Performances of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for the 25th anniversary of the festival. |
| Cambridge Madrigal Singers Cambridge, MA | $795 | Special concerts for children in June 1994. |
| The Master Singers Lexington, MA | $900 | April 94 program of works by Schütz, Stravinsky and Schoenberg. |
| The Chorus of Westerly Westerly, RI | $1,000 | Fifth annual choral workshop, led by Sir David Willcocks. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Assabet Valley Mastersingers Northborough, MA | $500 | A “Meet the Conductor” lecture delivered by Music Director Robert P. Eaton, on Orff's Carmina Burana. |
| Back Bay Chorale Boston, MA | $1,000 | Spring 1993 performance of Robert Kyr's Unseen Rain, revised by the composer for this chorus. |
| Northeast Kingdom Chorus Hardwick, VT | $900 | Funding for a small baroque orchestra to perform with the Chorus in the Christmas 1992 concert entitled “In Dulci Jubilo: A Baroque”. |
| Alice Parker Choral Festival Hawley, MA | $1,000 | Choral festival in celebratation of the bicentennial of the Town of Hawley, Massachusetts. |
| Portsmouth Women's Chorus Portsmouth, NH | $900 | Support research on Early American Music for women's voices-work songs, parlor songs, songs about women's rights, temperance and slavery. |
| Old Stoughton Musical Society Stoughton, MA | $800 | November 1992 concert entitled “Masterworks of Romanticism in American Music,” featuring landmarks of 19th Century choral music. |
| Youth Pro Musica West Newton, MA | $1,000 | Support Youth Pro Musica's participation in Day of Discovery in Massachusetts as host to a choral event in Boston open to inner-city school children. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Cecilia Boston, MA | $800 | to support the presentation of two world premiers: Boston composer Robert Sirota's Mass, and Love Canzonets by Cambridge composer Richard St. Clair |
| Russian Chamber Chorus Framingham, MA | $800 | Performance of the complete Rachmaninoff Vespers sung in Russian |
| Bagaduce Music Lending LIbrary Blue Hill, ME | $800 | Purchase of additional choral works of Mozart to meet increased demand for rentals |
| Rhode Island Civic Chorale Providence, RI | $400 | Marketing and distributing scores and tapes of Paul Nelson's Cantata Psalmorum, a performance funded by ANPF last year |
| Jubilate Chorale Brockton, ME | $600 | Performance Mozart's Grand Mass in C minor with orchestra |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $1,000 | Support compilation of three new choral catalogs, expanding the listing to 7,000 titles of multiple copies. |
| Chatham Chorale West Dennis, MA | $600 | Commission and perform a new choral work by Ron Perera to honor retired music director, Marjorie Bennett Morley. |
| CONCORA/Connecticut Choral Artists Hartford, CT | $1,000 | Four performances of a birthday tribute to composers of the 20th century. |
| Newton Choral Society Newton, MA | $750 | Commissioning of a choral work by Alan Fletcher, Professor of Theory and Composition at New England Conservatory, on texts of Yeats. |
| Rhode Island Civic Chorale Providence, RI | $800 | Commissioning an original work by Paul Nelson on the occasion of his 60th birthday |
| Chorus of Westerly Westerly, RI | $850 | American premiere of Mass of the Sea by British composer Paul Patterson, on May 19, 1990 |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Acadia Choral Society Franklin, ME | $800 | Performance of Brahms's German Requiem with full orchestra with success in a small community (10th anniversary concert). |
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $800 | Acquisition of ten Bach oratorios and cantatas, which have been in great demand. |
| Chorus Pro Musica Boston, MA | $800 | For its 40th anniversary concert and celebration. |
| Musica Sacra Cambridge, MA | $800 | Commissioning and performing a new work by its accompanist, Terry Halco, based on poems of Rilke. |
| Portsmouth Women's Chorus Portsmouth, NH | $700 | A centennial concert of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with another chorus and dance group. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $750 | Towards updating their catalogs. |
| Cambridge Chorale Cambridge, MA | $380 | Two spring concerts of rarely performed works for women's voices. |
| Guilford Chamber Singers Guilford, VT | $300 | To publish a Requiem Mass for six voices by Tomas de Vittoria. |
| Lawrence Choral Arts Natick, MA | $580 | To expand their concert series in a musically deprived area (for an anniversary season). |
| Onion River Chorus VT | $420 | World premere of Primavera |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | To support continuing efforts to establish and expand the library | |
| Chorus Pro Musica Boston, MA | $700 | Innovative programming of rarely-heard contemporary music, to include John Harbison's Flower-Fed Buffaloes and Schoenberg folk-song settings |
| Concord Chorale Concord, MA | $600 | Preparation and performance costs for the Monteverdi “Vespro della Beata Vergine", to be performed with period instruments |
| New Haven Chorale New Haven, CT | $460 | To enable the organization to join the Arts Computer Consortium |
| Pro Arte Society Osterville, MA | $470 | In recognition of innovative programming and to support extension of performances to a wider Cape audience |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $1,075 | Specialized catalogues essential to keep choral societies informed of music categories available to borrowers. |
| Cantata Singers Boston, MA | $600 | Commissioning Flight Into Egypt by John Harbison. |
| Guilford Chamber Singers Guilford, VT | $575 | Performances of the little-known Missa Scala Aretina by Francisco Valls (1672–1747) in Brattleboro and Amherst. |
| North Country Chorus Wells River, VT | $500 | A week-long choral workshop beginning August 3, conducted by Robert Page, assistant conducor and director of choruses of the Cleveland Orchestra. |
| Spectrum Singers Cambridge, MA | $700 | For the Organization Development Project, which aims to present more challenging works to sophisticated audiences throughout the region |
| Youth Pro Musica West Newton, MA | $550 | Commisioning of Street Music by Jeffrey Fischer, for the fall of 1986. |
| Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Bagaduce Music Lending Library Blue Hill, ME | $780 | for support of its non-profit choral music lending service |
| John Oliver Chorale Cambridge, MA | $590 | to assist its second recording project onto CD, including Pinkham's Christmas Cantata, Feb 1985 |
| Onion River Music Festival VT | $750 | to provide partial support for the Sixth Annual Vermont Choral Festival, Randolph, VT |
| Assabet Valley Mastersingers Northborough, MA | $560 | to help underwrite a series of unusual concert programs and workshops |
| The Greater Middletown Chorale Middletown, CT | $500 | to assist underwriting cost of its JS Bach 300 Festival, Concert and Symposium, Oct 1984 |