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Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 — 1799) : $50 - $149

​Composer, conductor, violinist, and prize-winning fencer, Saint-Georges remains the only world class musician
​to have taught music to Marie Antoinette and to have fought in the French Revolution.
Amy Advocat
Patricia Au
Katherine Balch
Thomas Barth
Kristen Bartucca
Elisa Birdseye
Paul & Althea Bolster
Alexandra Bowers
Marian Brown
Oliverr Caplan
Jeanette Callahan
​​Scott Chamberlin
Greg Childress

Theodore Daiber
Betty A. & Manuel Diaz

Iris Du Pont
​Carole Friedman
Karen Gahagan
Clare Glackin
​Gisela Griffith

Joe & Mary Jane Gruninger
​Jim Haber
Kalya Hamlett Murray
Hillary Harder
Lisa Hasko
Timothy Holley
​​​Frank Impelluso

​Dave Jamrog
Mark Kennedy
Rev. Dr. Xavier Johnson

John Kelly III
Rebecca Kirk
​Emerson Kington

​Kristo Kondakci
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Ben Kulp
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Robert & Margo Lathrop
​
Cherrice Lattimore
​Steven Lewis

Andrew List
Heath Marlow
John McDonald
David McNeeley
​Pamela & Dennis Morris

Mark Mullins
Charles & Emily Murphy
Julia Murphy
Roxanna Myhrum
​​Abigail Norman
Martin & Kathleen Pasqualini
​​Martha Robinson
​Daniel Ross
​Beth Rubin

Susan Ruf
David Sanford

Linda Seaver
Alexandra Sopp
James Sorenson
​​Jennifer Torrence
Valerie Thompson
​Ilya Vidrin
Joplin & Alison Wistar
​
Adam Workman
Deborah Selig Zavracky

Florence Price (1887 — 1953) : $150 - $299

An alumna of New England Conservatory, Price became the first Black woman to have an orchestral work
​performed by a major symphony orchestra, and was also a teacher to Margaret Bonds.
Suzanne Asher
​Victoria Lynn Awkward
​Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis
​Marlanda Dekine
​Emily Doolittle
​Christina English
Steve Farrell

Mary Ferrillo

Becca Hasko

David & Charrisse Howse
​Frederich Johnson

Rev. Dr. Xavier L. Johnson
​​​Phoebe Lindsay 
Cindy & Bradley Maroni
Francesca McNeeley
Sylvia & Ralph Memolo
Denver Miller
​Theodore Murphy
Peggy Pearson

Suzanne Ricco
Meerenai Shim
Marshunda Smith
Margot Schwartz
​Daniel Toner
Lisa Wong

L. Viola Kinney (c. 1890 — 1945) : $300 - $499

​Lady Viola Kinney’s only surviving work, the incredibly moving and prize-winning “Mother’s Sacrifice” for solo piano,
​is among the few works of published music by Black women composers before 1910.
Daniel Callahan
​Kate Dobbins
Dimitra Emmanouilidou
Joshua Hahn

Diana Hunt
Phil Lima
Sara O'Brien
​​Nicholas Shellenberger

William Grant Still (1895 —1978) : $500 - $999

“The Dean of Afro-American Composers,” Still is a prestigious composer-conductor whose career included
​many firsts for Black musicians. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Charles Anderson
​Michael Baum
Mary Bonhag
​Sara O'Brien
​John Carey
J
ohn Clippinger
Courtney Closson
​Maria Finkelmeier, Kadence Arts
Harriet Griesinger
Lynn DuVal Luse

​Patricia & Robert Dixon-Gordon
​Kyle Grimes, WCVB TV5 "CityLine" 
​Lee Koonce
Leona McCarthy, WCVB TV5 "CityLine" 

Mike Peluse & Hannah Weisman
Courntey Miller
Joseph Snodgrass

​​Lorraine & Lee Steele
Marcus Thompson
Phyllis & Bud Wulliman

Marian Anderson (1897 — 1993) : $1,000 - $4,999

Internationally acclaimed contralto, Marian Anderson performed in the world’s most prestigious venues as well as
​on the Lincoln Memorial Steps for an audience of 75,000, and millions more on the radio.
Jonathan Aibel
Elizabeth Bierer
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Herbert Fox
Stephen Symchych

Felipe Venegas & Jessi Rosinski
​
Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music at Columbia University
Harvard Musical Association
Howard & Katherine Aibel Fitch Foundation
​New Music USA


COLERIDGE TAYLOR-PERKINSON (1932 — 2004) : $5,000+​

Composer, conductor, and pianist, “Perk’s” music can be heard in concert halls as well as in films,
​including “A Warm December” (1973), starring Sidney Poitier.


​*From July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022
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