NEA grants $30,000 to music dept. for 'Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight'
May 13, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to the Department of Music to support a musical response to Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements. The grant, co-written by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, interim director of the Vocal Program, and Martha Guth, Ithaca College, will provide foundational support for Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight, an ambitious musical project commissioned and administered by the art song organization Sparks & Wiry Cries, resulting in the premiere and subseq...
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