Henry Wolking’s Ballet Forever Yesterday
Document Type
Contribution to Books
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Abstract
Fifty years ago the Louisville Orchestra under conductor Robert Whitney embarked on a path of commissioning compositions by contemporary composers with civic and foundation support. One principal offshoot of the endeavor resulted in a historic recording project for new music, funded in part by a ground-breaking grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ten years and over two hundred compositions later, the Louisville Orchestra had established both the basic framework for orchestral commissioning projects and a model for the collaboration of orchestras and private foundations in support of serious new music.1 By the 1990s, such activities are an assumed part of our American musical culture.
Publication Information
Belfy, Jeanne Marie. (2000). "Henry Wolking’s Ballet Forever Yesterday". Music in the Theater, Church, and Villa: Essays in Honor of Robert Lamar Weaver and Norma Wright Weaver, 291-305.