I don't know if this is the right place, or if this will be of interest, but the choir I run with the composer John Duggan (www.sospiri.co.uk) is in the middle of a commissioning project involving texts from the 1st World War. We have the following composers writing for us - Francis Pott, Gabriel Jackson, Cecilia McDowall, Frank Ferko, Colin Mawby, David Bednall, Alex Lestrange, Richard Allain, David Lang, Matthew Martin, John Duggan. We hope that this new collection of pieces will be a significant addition to the current repertoire, and would be very grateful for any help/suggestions regarding fund raising. We have already raised about a third of the money we hope to raise, and have had an award from the PRS. The choir itself is entirely amateur and we all give our time to it without any financial return but we intend to pay all the composers properly so any help would be gratefully received!
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Dear Chris,
This sounds a fascinating project. It is a regrettable state of affairs that in the UK a great proportion of the effort involved in running musical projects (choirs, orchestras/amateur, pro) has to be centred around finance and staying in the black. Musicians on the whole tend to be somewhat unworldly, even heads-in-the-clouds people (I certainly am). The occasional person who has his head screwed on and is willing to take on the onerous business of finance and fund-raising is a terrific boon. Even more of a boon is to find someone who is not a participating musician but who is willing to give endlessly of his/her time to the cause. More often than not this will be someone who has had a career (and therefore knows the way of the world), has maybe taken early retirement and is keen to find a new interest. So my humble advice is find your person. Good luck!
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