The Jory Copying Assistance Program provides support to American composers
who are members of the American Music Center for the expenses of copying and
reproducing parts for premiere performances.
The performance must advance the professional career of the applying composer.
Deadlines
Completed applications, signed and submitted by the composer, must be
received at the American Music Center by February 1, May 1, or October 1 and
before the premiere performance. Decisions will be announced within 6 weeks
after each deadline. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
How to apply
Applications must include the following:
1. Completed application form, signed;
2. A brief statement of the significance of this performance to the
composer's career;
3. Brief professional resume, with a list of other performances over the
past 3-5 years;
4. Completed score for which support is requested. (Partially completed
scores with a sketch of the remainder of the work are acceptable. However,
it is in the composer's best interest to provide as much of the completed
score as possible.)
5. Written confirmation from the performing organization of the exact
premiere performance date or recording date;
6. Background on the performing or recording organization: a brief history,
previous/upcoming performances, reviews, etc.;
7. Written estimate from a professional copyist (or the composer if he or
she is doing the copying) of the cost of extracting and reproducing parts.
The estimate should stipulate what work is being done and the rate being
charged.
8. If the request is for computer software or hardware, a price quote from a
vendor.
Applicants are encouraged to request the full amount needed. However, most
grants will cover only a portion of the expenses assumed by the composer.
If granted, payment will be made directly to the composer.
Criteria
Factors considered by the panel include:
1. Of principal importance, the significance of this performance to the
composer's career. For example, factors that make an application less
competitive may include previous performances by the same or a similar
ensemble or recording label. Further, projects with recording companies
deemed to be vanity labels are unlikely to be funded.
2. The composer's professionalism;
3. The appropriateness of the estimate;
4. Whether copying costs have been assumed by a party other than the
composer (i.e. performer, publisher, etc.);
5. Whether the work was commissioned. (Although commissioned works are
eligible, priority will be given to non-commissioned premieres.
Additionally, the size of the commission in relation to the copying estimate
will be considered.) The Center believes it is the responsibility of the
commissioning organization to assume at least a portion of the copying costs
in addition to the composer's fee;
6. Priority is given to composers who have not received significant amounts
from the Copying Assistance Program in the past.
Recipients must acknowledge the Jory Copying Assistance Program in printed
material associated with the supported work. Also, they are required to
deposit a bound copy of the final score for the Center's library.
The Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program is funded by the Mary
Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Helen F. Whitaker Foundation, the Chase Manhattan Bank as well as individual
contributors and general operating funds of the American Music Center.
Support for the American Music Center's activities comes from members' dues,
the sale of Center publications, individual contributors, Arts Forward Fund,
ASCAP, Aurora Music Foundation, Inc., BMI, BMI Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary
Charitable Trust, Chase Manhattan Bank, City of New York Department of
Cultural Affairs, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., Eleanor Naylor
Dana Charitable Trust, Dayton Hudson Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation, Aaron Diamond Foundation, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation,
National Music Publishers Association, National Endowment for the Arts,
National Endowment For the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts,
New York Times Foundation, Edward John Noble Foundation, The Pew Charitable
Trusts, Target Stores, the Department Store Division and Mervyn's, by the
Dayton Hudson Foundation, Virgil Thomson Foundation,the Helen F. Whitaker
Fund, and other corporations and foundations.