Humanities Program
1998 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
the Performing Arts

1998

Alliance for the Arts, Inc.
New York, New York

Publication support for Lincoln Kirstein: Incidental Writings on Dance

$25,000

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, New York

For writing, printing, and distribution of Dialogues & Extensions, a guide to the orchestra’s concerts

$15,000

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of Eye on Dance, a weekly television show, and the Arts Restoration Campaign to refurbish endangered master videotapes

$10,000

Association for Development of Dramatic Arts, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of Jean Cocteau Repertory’s 1998-99 season

$10,000

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support Messiaen's From the Canyons to the Stars in the 1998-99 season, and a new series, Double Exposure, featuring the works of emerging and lesser-known composers during the 1999-2000 season

$40,000

CSC Repertory Ltd.
New York, New York

For support of Classic Stage Company’s 1998-99 season

$12,500

Dance Theatre Foundation
New York, New York

For support of a revival of the 1970 Alvin Ailey ballet, Streams

$25,000

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center - Lucy Moses School of Music and Dance
New York, New York

For support of Merkin Concert Hall’s Arnold Schoenberg: Conservative Radical, a program of symposia and concerts

$5,000

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, New York

For production support of Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (jointly funded with the Venetian Research Program)

$25,000

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of the Acting Company during the 1998-99 New York season

$15,000

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of the 1998-99 Great Performers series pre-concert lectures, symposia, interviews, and educational programming

$50,000

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support the Robert Irving Guest Conductor's Chair during the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons

$200,000

New York New Music Ensemble
New York, New York

For support of the 1998/99 season

$5,000

New York Shakespeare Festival
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support Shakespeare in the Park during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons

$70,000

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, New York

For support of New York performances at the Joyce Theater during the 50th anniversary season

$5,000

Parnassus Contemporary Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of the 1998-99 season

$5,000

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support documentation and preservation of new works through The Paul Taylor New Works Fund

$50,000

The Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, New York

For special support to enhance development and marketing capabilities

$8,500

Riverside Symphony, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support performances during the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons

$20,000

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, New York

For a three-year grant to support the School's Teachers Fund

$250,000

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, New York

For support of the 1997-98 season

$33,000

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons

$70,000

The Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.
New York, New York

For the production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

$75,000

WNYC Foundation
New York, New York

To support the purchase of WNYC FM and WNYC AM licenses from the City of New York

$25,000

Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
New York, New York

For the stage adaptation of Dante's Inferno, produced by the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center (jointly funded with the Humanities Program)

$7,500