A year in motion
from the Columbia Tribune By Aarik Danielsen and Lynn Israel

Columbia is the new Vienna? Hoping to create a Mecca for the composition and performance of new music in Mid-Missouri, Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield donated $1 million to MU in March to fund the Mizzou New Music Initiative. The program, among other things, makes eight full-ride scholarships available to composition majors, furnishes assistantships for a new music ensemble, supports a composition prize and facilitates festivals and camps, centered on new music and composition, for students from kindergarten through college.  READ MORE

Find the article online here: www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/jan/03/year-motion
For more on the New Music Inicitive or the Sinquefield’s, visit the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation website: www.sinquefieldcharitablefoundation.com

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