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LA school gets $16.6m donation for Salonen program

LA school gets .6m donation for Salonen program

The Colburn School in Los Angeles, host to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s conducting Fellowship, has received a huge $16.6 million donation from an Illinois-based foundation.

Salonen said: ‘I am deeply grateful to The Negaunee Foundation for supporting this program from the very beginning. With this new and generous gift, we hope to make the Negaunee Conducting Program into the foremost conducting apprenticeship, finding talented individuals, regardless of their age or where they are in their studies, and nurturing that talent to share with the world.’

The School will also house Salonen’s 1,400 annotated scores within a new Frank Gehry-designed campus.

Salonen, who is quitting the San Francisco Symphony after a falling out with the board, is quoted in today’s NY Times saying: ‘I’m not rushing into anything…I just want to get my priorities right.’

The post LA school gets $16.6m donation for Salonen program appeared first on Slippedisc.

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