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Arts Entrepreneurship - Navigating the 21st Century

Arts Entrepreneurship - Navigating the 21st Century

…We discussed a variety of job opportunities centered around, but expanding outward from an undergraduate degree in music education… I particularly enjoyed sharing some experiences to do with my experiences as a church Music Director. My position is that instrumental music teachers benefit immensely from coming to better understand choral music repertoire and the mechanics of the voice…

Arts Advocacy Day 2017

Arts Advocacy Day 2017

Dear Representative Cummings,

I am writing to urge you to support FY17 and FY18 funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA is a critical component in the network of public, private, corporate, and philanthropic support. Total direct grants by the agency are anticipated to reach more than 33 million people attending live arts events through NEA-supported programs. Grants to orchestras build innovative and civically vibrant communities such as ours by supporting arts education for children and adults, providing citizen access to performances, preserving great classical works, and nurturing the creative endeavors of contemporary classical musicians, composers, and conductors.

Jordan Randall Smith is the Music Director of Symphony Number One.