MONTAGE Receives Major Grant from Argosy Foundation's Contemporary Music Fund - Continued

"This generous award brings us substantially closer to meeting our fundraising goal for this unique and exciting project", states MMS president Richard Schaul-Yoder. "We are very grateful to the Argosy Fund for this significant vote of confidence."

MMS designed the Starry Night Project to broaden the contemporary music audience by involving the public that frequents galleries and museums, but perhaps seldom attends concerts. Making connections between music and visual art forms, projecting the artwork during concerts, and engaging this expanded audience in discussion with the composers about how the art and music relate will encourage active listening and stimulate fresh, new insights into the musical creative process.

MMS board member Greg DePrince has commissioned the new work to be premiered as part of the project. Composer Andrew List's composition for violin, clarinet and piano is based on Gauguin's famous "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?", a painting in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) collection. MFA will be involved in helping to launch the new composition.

MMS has also secured the commitment of recording companies interested in releasing the Starry Night project recording. MMS plans to release the recording by the end of 2008.

For further information on contributing to the Starry Night Project, contact Debra Ayers, 617-864-9660, debralayers@earthlink.net.

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