Music Alive
Music Alive [Past Program] was a steward and partner in a multitude of projects that fostered strong working relationships between American orchestras and accomplished composers across the country.
Launched in 1999 as a joint program between Meet The Composer (now New Music USA) and the League of American Orchestras, Music Alive was a steward and partner in a multitude of projects that fostered strong working relationships between American orchestras and accomplished composers across the country. In its 20 years, the program supported 110 composers, 76 orchestras, and 114 distinct residencies.
MUSIC ALIVE: KEY OBJECTIVES
- The composer-orchestra relationship is a vital symbiosis, with strong benefits for both partners and rich possibilities for enhancing an orchestra’s ability to deliver public value to its community.
- Extended involvement between composers and orchestras including residency is a powerful structural tool to realize those benefits and possibilities.
- A key goal for systemic change is to secure a vital role for living artists as key factors in the orchestral world of the future.
Music Alive was made possible through a lead grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with additional support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, The Amphion Foundation, and The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund.
Featured Music Alive Composers
Berkeley Symphony 2016-2019
Detroit Symphony Orchestra 2013-2016
Philadelphia Orchestra 2016-2019
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2016-2019
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019
Pacific Symphony 2013-2016
Albany Symphony 2013-2016
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 2013-2016
Seattle Symphony 2013-2016
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2018-2019
Music Alive Program Participants
Seattle Symphony 2007-2008
Albany Symphony 2000-2001
Springfield Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013
American Composers Orchestra 2003-2004
Berkeley Symphony 2009-2013
Boston Modern Orchestra Project 2011-2013
Berkeley Symphony 2016-2019
Chautauqua Symphony 2014-2016
American Composers Orchestra 2003-2004
Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra 2007-2008, New Haven Symphony Orchestra 2009-2012
Stockton Symphony 2011-2013
Greater Boston Youth Symphony 2001-2002
Denver Young Artists Orchestra 2007-2008
Seattle Symphony 2000-2001
New Jersey Symphony 2005-2008
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra 2014-2016
Albany Symphony 2005-2008
Cincinnati Symphony 2006-2007
Seattle Symphony 2003-2004, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009
Stockton Symphony 2004-2005, 2006-2007
National Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003
Boston Landmarks Orchestra 2014-2016
Albany Symphony 2019-2013
Tucson Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016
Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2005-2006
Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009
Milwaukee Symphony 2000-2001
Nashville Chamber Orchestra 2005-2008
Green Bay Symphony 2005-2006
Delaware Symphony 2006-2007
Vermont Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004, 2006-2009
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra 2003-2004
Albany Symphony 2001-2002, Westchester Philharmonic, 2002-2003, American Composers Orchestra, 2006-2009
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 2014-2016
Albany Symphony 2003-2004, 2005-2008
Grant Park Music Festival 2014-2016
InterSchool Orchestras of New York 2004-2005
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra 2006-2007
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2011-2013
Seattle Symphony 2005-2006, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra 2011-2013 Detroit Symphony Orchestra 2013-2016
Albany Symphony 2005-2008, 2009-2012
Chicago Modern Orchestra Project 2009-2013
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2016-2019
Colonial Symphony 2007-2008
Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003
Music in the Mountains Orchestra 2001-2002
South Florida Youth Symphony 2009-2013
Milwaukee Youth Symphony 2006-2007
Pittsburgh Symphony 2005-2006, The Philadelphia Orchestra 2007-2008, Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019
New Haven Symphony Orchestra 2009-2012
Princeton Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016
Utah Symphony 2005-2006
Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013
Brooklyn Philharmonic 2007-2008
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) 2002-2003, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005
South Bend Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003
Alabama Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013
American Composers Orchestra 2009-2013
Music Foundation of Spartanburg 2009-2013
Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004, 2005-2008
Cornell University Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013
Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008
Cornell University Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013
Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2016-2019
Boston Modern Orchestra Project 2006-2009
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra 2009-2012
Phoenix Symphony 2007-2008
Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2011-2013
Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003
Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2001-2002
Colorado Symphony Association 2001-2002, West Shore Symphony 2005-2006, Pacific Symphony 2009-2012
Atlanta Symphony 2006-2007
Albuquerque Youth Symphony 2005-2006
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008
Westfield Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra 2014-2016
Berkeley Symphony 2003-2004
Pacific Symphony 2013-2016
Los Angeles Philharmonic 2000-2002
American Composers Orchestra 2000-2001
Albany Symphony 2005-2008
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005
Eugene Symphony Orchestra Association 2004-2005, Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 2002-2003
String Orchestra of New York City 2007-2008, Fulcrum New Music Project 2009-2012
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra 2014-2016
Westfield Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005
Vermont Youth Orchestra Association 2009-2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra 2000-2001, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005, Puerto Rico Symphony 2006-2007
American Composers Orchestra 2009-2013
Meridian Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004
Albany Symphony 2013-2016
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 2013-2016
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra 2000-2001
Berkeley Symphony 2011-2013
National Symphony Orchestra 2001-2002
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016
Tucson Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2018-2019
Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003
American Composers Orchestra 2001-2002
Helena Symphony 2002-2003
Seattle Symphony 2013-2016
San Jose Chamber Orchestra 2004-2005
San Diego Youth Symphony 2004-2005
Seattle Symphony 2001-2002, Westfield Symphony 2006-2009