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American music foundation
The Alice M. Ditson Fund , founded in 1940,
[1] supports contemporary American music.
[2] Significant ongoing awards include the
Ditson Conductor's Award .
In its early years, the fund supported notable 20th-century musicians such as
Bela Bartok ,
[3]
Benjamin Britten ,
Aaron Copland ,
Gian Carlo Menotti ,
Virgil Thomson ,
[4] and
Walter Piston .
[5] From 1945 to 1952, the Fund sponsored the week-long Columbia Festival of Contemporary American Music.
[6] The Ditson Fund was also active in supporting the Composers' Forum concerts in New York.
[7]
The fund's namesake, Alice Ditson, was the wife of music publisher Charles Healy Ditson and daughter-in-law of
Oliver Ditson , founder of the publishing house that bore his name.
[8] She was a supporter of American classical music during her lifetime, and her will bequested $400,000 (equivalent to $8.7 million in 2023) to
Columbia University
[9]
[10] for "the encouragement and aide of musicians."
[11]
External links
References
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"On the Money: New Music Funding in the United States" . NewMusicBox . Retrieved 2020-04-10 .
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ISSN
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^ Peyser, Joan (1995).
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ISBN
978-0-912483-99-3 .
^ Tommasini, Anthony (1997).
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle . W. W. Norton & Company. p.
379 .
ISBN
978-0-393-04006-7 .
^ Steinberg, Michael (1995).
The Symphony: A Listener's Guide . Oxford University Press. p.
420 .
ISBN
978-0-19-512665-5 .
^
"About the Ditson Fund Recordings Archive" .
^ Patterson, Nick (2011).
"The Archives of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center" . Notes . 67 (3): 483–502.
doi :
10.1353/not.2011.0008 .
ISSN
0027-4380 .
JSTOR
23012776 .
S2CID
191585272 .
^ Ardizzone, Heidi (2007).
An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege . W. W. Norton & Company.
ISBN
978-0-393-05104-9 .
^
"About the Fund" . The Alice M. Ditson Fund . Retrieved 2021-02-20 .
^ Beardslee, Bethany; Proctor, Minna (2017).
I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music . Boydell & Brewer.
ISBN
978-1-58046-900-5 .
^
"Columbia Receives Trust to Aid Music" .
The New York Times . 1940-05-16. p. 31. Retrieved 2021-02-20 .