The Arts Community Alliance funds Lumedia Musicworks series
SOURCE: PATCH
The Arts Community Alliance recently awarded a second $3,500 resiliency grant to Lumedia Musicworks, supporting the organization's Stories. Stories a comedic short documentary-and-performance series about selected women composers.
The Dallas-based nonprofit performance organization, committed to showcasing and performing early music - music composed before 1750, received the funding as part of TACA's second round of resiliency grants. The grants are designed to support Dallas arts groups demonstrating resiliency in creatively fulfilling their mission, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lumedia was one of 37 arts organizations to receive the funding. It will use the grant to cover the costs of this year's series, which includes the current installment about the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, a French composer who had a close relationship with King Louis XIV, and Barbara Strozzi, part of the rival family of the Medicis.
"We're highlighting early women composers because they broke a bit of the glass ceiling back then," said Julianna Emanski, Lumedia's artistic director. "What these women accomplished in the 17th and 18th centuries was unheard of at the time."