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Causes: Arts & Culture, Music, Professional Societies & Associations
Mission: The League of Composers/ISCM seeks to have “new music” (20th and 21st-century music) play a more prominent role and obtain a more appreciated place in the lives of the concert music-loving public. The League’s mission is to engage audiences by presenting performances of new music of the highest caliber written by emerging and established living composers in the context of 20th and 21st-century masterpieces.
Target demographics: composers, musicians, and the music-loving community
Direct beneficiaries per year: Keith Fitch and Wang Jie by awarding them both commissions and premiering their new compositions
Geographic areas served: and around NYC
Programs: reasonably priced concert series featuring the commissioned new works of emerging and established living composers, a growing membership, and an annual composers' competition with cash prize and possibility of NY premiere performance.