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Announcement, May 5th 2025
 

HELP Roosevelt Island Concerts RECOVER THE Terminated $20,000 NEA Grant funds 

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If you've been following Roosevelt Island Concerts this year, we were recently honored to receive a grant for $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2025. This was a significant step forward for Roosevelt Island Concerts, recognition of our growth and expansion. 

 

Unfortunately we were just informed that this grant has been terminated.

 

We are determined, however, to keep bringing first-rate classical music to Roosevelt Island, and wanted to let you know that you, our loyal audience, matter to us. With your help, we will make every effort to put on the rest of the programs we proposed for this year as planned.

 

We are asking 200 people to give $100 to help recover the full amount of our recently- canceled NEA grant of $20,000. No amount is too small, however, so please give as much as you are able. Let’s prove together what we know to be true: The arts are kept alive by the community that surrounds them.

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With warmest wishes and gratitude,

The Roosevelt Island Concert Team

Marc, Iris, Ralph, Benjamin, Yi-heng 

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Contribute by check payable to R. I. Concerts, and bring it to one of our concerts.

​or mail to RI Concerts, 30 River Road, apt 18C, New York, NY 10044

Contributions are tax-deductible.

Our tax ID number is  27-3152518.

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Friend  $50

   • recognition in our programs and website

 

 
Supporter  $100

   • two reserved seats to 1 concert

   • recognition in our programs and website

 

 
Benefactor  $250

   • signed CD of Mr. Hochman’s 2019 ECO recording*

   • two reserved seats to 3 concerts

   • recognition in our programs and website

 

 
Sustainer  $500

   • invitations to orchestra dress rehearsals

   • two reserved seats to all concerts

   • all preceding benefits

 

 
Patron  $1,000

   • invitations to post-concert receptions

   • all preceding benefits

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Primary Funders

 

$5,000

   • recognition in our print and online ads

   • all preceding benefits

 

$10,000

   • Title Presenter of a chamber concert

   • all preceding benefits

 

$25,000

   • Title Presenter of an orchestra concert

   • a chamber concert in your home or at your venue

   • all preceding benefits

 

60,000

   • Title sponsor of the concert season for a year

   • a chamber concert in your home or at your venue

   • all preceding benefits

 

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*A signed, complimentary CD of Benjamin Hochman’s London recording of two Mozart piano concertos, as guest conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and as pianist

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We thank our generous individual and corporate donors

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Primary Funders
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$10,000 or more

Musicians Emergency Fund

Martha Lou Henley

National Endowment for the Arts

Roosevelt Island Public Purpose Funds

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$5,000 – $9,999

Judith Pisar

Jane Maxwell

Hudson/Related’s Riverwalk Crossing

Lower Manhattan Community Council
 

 
 
Patrons

$1,000 – $4,999

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Stephen Blank, in memory of Lenore

Pierre Courmont and Raymond M. Wapner

Ruth and Steven E. Frieder

Michael and Deborah Goldberg

Sandra King

Suzanne Lubell

Isaac Nahem and Erin Feely-Nahem,
in memory of Margot Feely

For Munin and Olivier with love

The Roosevelt Island Business Association

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Sustainers

$500 – $999

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Manuella Gray

Linda and Donald Hunt
Naomi and John Landau

Carole Kleinknecht

Susan Lees

Rachel N. and James C. Austin

Hana Arie Gaifman

 

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Benefactors

$250 – $499

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Susanna Briselli Boxenbaum and Charles Boxenbaum​

Michael Friedmann
Daniel Gardner and Esther P. Gardner

Laszlo and Zsuzsa Hamos

Matthew M. Katz and Sherie Helstien

Albert and Daniele Novikoff

 

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Supporters

$100 – $249

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​Joan Afferica

Sara Allen

Lorraine Altman

Dmitriy Aronov

Alyssa Bautista

Margaret K. Brooks

Robert and Sheila Chazin

Judy Connorton

Sande and Mitch Elinson

Mary Clare Eros and James J. Eros

Vicky Feinmel

Bonnie Goodman

Annie Gottlieb

Mary S. Holland

Ray F. Lee

Lisa Matricardi

Richard & Janis Meyer

Stephanie H. Pincus

Jane Poole

Michael J. Rindler and Janet L. Falk
Donald J. Semenza

Margie Smith
Margaret Tsu

Jacqueline H. Van Gorkom and Marty Kohli

James D. Vance

Barbara G. Vickrey and Martin F. Shapiro

Sara & Stamos Metzidakis

Anonymous (many)

 

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Friends

$50 – $99

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Jaromy Arpad

Qais Al Awqati

Linda Becker​

Alex Carballo-Dieguez

Aniruddha Das

Marvin Forman

Irina Hage

John L. Hammond

Devjani Huggins

Darcy Brisbane Kelley

Jane Lobbenberg

Anne A. McDonald

Richard Meyer

Jack Norton

Nicole P. Pell

Mary B. Welch

Suzanne Wolf

Zachary Woolfe

Anonymous (many)

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