Guggenheims go to four composers of "jazz beyond jazz"
Posted: April 11th, 2015, 3:25 pm
On April 9, 2015, The Guggenheim Foundation wrote:Fellowship Awards in the United States and Canada, 2015
In its ninety-first competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation has awarded 173 Fellowships . . . to a diverse group of 175 scholars,
artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise,
the successful candidates were chosen from a group of over 3,100 applicants.
Among the recipients, Howard Mandel wrote in his blog Jazz Beyond Jazz, are
four stellar jazz-beyond-jazz musicians — orchestra composer-leader Darcy James Argue,
trumpeter Etienne Charles, saxophonist Steve Lehman and scholar-composer/improviser-
electronics innovator-trombonist George E. Lewis, all practiced [at] stretching the definition of
“jazz” without breaking it.
- Category: Creative Arts | Field of Study: Music Composition
From the current version of the Guggenheim Foundation's FAQs:
What is the amount of a grant?
The amounts of grants vary. . . . Working with a fixed annual budget, the Foundation strives
to allocate its funds as equitably as possible, taking into consideration the Fellows’ other
resources and the purpose and scope of their plans.
Mandel cites statements about the average amounts in recent years, but the
amounts stated by various sources online are all over the map and may have
been derived by different means.
A complete list of the Guggenheim Fellows in the United States and Canada—
2015 can be viewed here (where clicking a Fellow's name yields a link to the
Fellow's website, if any), here (with title and affiliation), or here (arranged
by field).
Sources:
The Guggenheim Foundation's website
This entry in Howard Mandel's blog Jazz Beyond Jazz