General Motors Foundation Donates $400,000 To Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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Thanks to a $400,000 grant from the General Motors Foundation, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will head south to perform with Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist Olga Kern during a tour of Southern Florida.
The GM Foundation has donated more than $84 million to various Detroit non-profit organizations and cultural institutions over the last decade, including a nearly $2 million grant to the DSO in order to help it bring its performances to Detroit and New York’s Carnegie hall, where it played in May of this year.
“Touring, domestic or otherwise, is an imperative part of sharing this orchestra’s art with a broad and diverse audience,” said DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin. “Thanks to the generosity of the GM Foundation, the DSO will be on the road for the third time in a year. We’re really looking forward to seeing our friends in Florida again.”
The tour will take place from February 25 to March 4, 2014.
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I like when people say GM wastes money, most of the time people are just trying to bash GM! But in this case those people would be right, what a waste of resources, time, effort, energy, ect!
They donate money to make people feel good about themselves in the hope that those people will one day buy a GM car or truck! With zero indication that any of these people are die hard GM fans or will ever return the favor of being a loyal GM customer because of this!
Why not use that money to promote loyal GM customers?
If you don’t promote the arts (in this case music) then you don’t promote a civilization.
All you seem to care about is weather or not the guy working the kettle drums is going to buy from GM.
The GM foundation does not siphon off ANY money from GM. This is an independent philanthropic organization. And Grawdaddy is correct- there is benefit to society in general from supporting worthwhile causes. Classical music and mathematics are closely linked- maybe they will help inspire innovations from our engineers!