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Show ah Symphony Receives 3 To 1 150,000 Grant - Mellon , ! New York City . ltd 'he Utah ' ' L lllree-to-one !-em grant of ;:.;ouncement of m by Wen- Symphony , . ""Tibutions ;. : ,. three years, I,e orchestra's ment mphony is ,r?'he select V "' said Mr. Slidentall hgra"' can be W"1 "e time '2ng their grant MeMon J'.; :!irnce 'heir ong. 4 lParatl ,:' ' M ?Ia Period the il e end of : Hiteometrom m ' ,ree of any Ah a7ravanel, 1--r mented when informed of the grant, "I am delighted that the Utah Symphony was chosen by the Mellon Foundation Foun-dation for this grant. It will undoubtedly be a tremendous help in achieving the long range goals of our orchestra both financially and artistically." artis-tically." The Mellon grant comes at a most opportune time," notes Shirl H. Swenson, manager of the Utah Symphony, "since it can be used as matching money for the recently announced Challenge Grant of the National Na-tional Endowment for the Arts." MR. SWENSON also noted that because the entire $150,000 Mellon grant and the matching $450,000 must go into the orchestra's permanent per-manent endowment, in effect it means having to raise $450,000 of "new" contributions contribu-tions between now and Sept. 30, 1980, when the matching period ends. Executive Director Herold L. Gregory added, "The Utah Symphony is proud of its longstanding policy of pay-as-you-go budgeting and has never resorted to deficit spending. "WITH our move into the new Symphony Hall in 1978, however, and with constantly escalating costs of operating the orchestra we are certainly going to need these additional funds to help offset increased costs." |