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The International Symphony Orchestra will be able to continue its artistic advancement this year thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Facing
financial challenges as a result of declining corporate support and decreased
bingo revenues, the organization was concerned that the artistic integrity of
the 47-year-old cultural group could be negatively affected.
“Our artistic costs represent our
heaviest expenditure each season”, notes Anne Brown, the International
Symphony Orchestra’s Executive Director.
“We have been slowly and steadily building the orchestra’s artistic
level by expanding our professional musician base.
Jerome Summers (the International Symphony Orchestra’s conductor and
music director) has worked artistic miracles with this orchestra – skillfully
merging a large community musician element with an ever-growing professional
component. The results of his
efforts are clearly evident. The
orchestra has never sounded better”.
There
was concern that funding shortfalls would result in a reduction of services for
the musicians, and a step back artistically, for the organization.
Brown states that, “To eliminate services of our contract and per
service musicians would have a damaging effect on artistic quality, jeopardize
audience growth and negatively impact the local economy – in short, halt the
progress so many individuals have worked hard to accomplish.
We are grateful that the Ontario Trillium Foundation recognizes the
significant role that the Arts and Culture segment plays in the overall
well-being of a community – culturally, socially, spiritually and
economically”.
The
Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, annually
receives $100 million of government funding generated through Ontario’s
charity casino initiative. The
Foundation allocates grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit
organizations in the arts and culture, environment, human and social services,
and sports and recreation sectors.
For
more information, please contact:
Anne
Brown
Executive Director, International Symphony Orchestra
(519) 337-7775, (810) 9984-8857
iso@rivernet.net
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