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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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