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- From: Dave.Leibold@f730.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Dave Leibold)
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- Subject: AT&T Reaches Out to the Arts
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:38:24 GMT
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- AT&T has a reputation for supporting arts, especially during these
- risky recessionary times. AT&T Foundation recently pitched in $50,000
- to support the Canadian Opera Company's productions of the operas
- Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung. The COC will also be doing this
- double feature at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (an institution in
- which AT&T has some long-standing ties).
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- AT&T is reportedly the largest sponsor of American non-profit
- performing arts. This latest sponsorship of Canadian arts comes at a
- time when AT&T's presence in Canada is growing (ie. the part-ownership
- of Unitel Communications).
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- ref: {Toronto Star}, Eye on Entertainment
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- Dave Leibold - via FidoNet node 1:250/98
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- [Moderator's Note: AT&T has always been generous to service organizations
- and charities as well. In the 1960's when AT&T and the Bells were one,
- they gave a lot of financial assistance to the civil rights movement.
- This being the 25th anniversary year of the asassination of Dr. M.L. King,
- I am reminded that when he came to visit us (the trustees of the
- Chicago Temple invited him to speak once a year, sometimes twice), his
- honorarium was always paid back to us by AT&T and the program for the
- occassion would note, "Dr. and Mrs. King's personal expenses during
- their visit have been met with a gift from Illinois Bell Telephone Co."
- AT&T also endowed the telephone exhibit at the Museum of Science and
- Industry here for perhaps thirty years. PAT]
-