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Name of Applicant: Amount Requested: Category: Score: <br />Omar Avalos $5,000 Artist 87.0 —1" Place <br />Brief Description of Project: <br />This is a proposal for the establishment of a new seasonal winter or summer community <br />chamber orchestra, to be offered to Santa Ana musicians free of charge, to be called <br />the Santa Ana Camerata, tentatively. This ensemble will perform, especially but not <br />exclusively, Mexican and Latin - American "art," or, "classical," music for orchestra and or <br />chamber ensembles. The ultimate size of the ensemble will depend on the amount of <br />musicians taking part in it. The project includes a culminating concert to be shared with <br />the public, free of the price of admission into Phillips Hall Theater at Santa Ana College. <br />This proposal asks for the use of City of Santa Ana Public Space, specifically the use of <br />a room for rehearsals at the Corbin Center, and if music stands are required, the stands <br />will become property of the City of Santa Ana, purchased with Santa Ana grant money. <br />Community Benefit: <br />The project is intended to provide a supplemental, educational experience through <br />music repertory alternative to what's taught at Santa Ana schools and Santa Ana <br />College, for the benefit of Santa Ana youth and the larger community. The project is <br />designed to invite Santa Ana Unified School District musicians, those referred by their <br />music directors, to perform with Santa Ana College musicians, but all musicians are <br />welcome to participate, provided they have a musical background in orchestral band, <br />string orchestra, or symphony orchestra performance. <br />The intended repertory for the project is part of a larger cultural patrimony that is very <br />relevant to the Santa Ana community. The repertory also serves as an educational tool, <br />to edify all people of Santa Ana, regardless of ethnicities, in addition to new coming <br />people to Santa Ana, about the sophistication of the cultural patrimony of their <br />neighbors of Mexican and Latin - American descent. Truly, for the City to aide in this <br />project would be reflective of its cultural sophistication. Mexican and Latino - Americans <br />excel in art music, as is evidenced by the examples of Gustavo Dudamel, who conducts <br />the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sonia Marie De Leon, who conducts the St. Cecilia <br />Orchestra in Los Angeles, and Alondra de la Parra, who founded the Philharmonic <br />Orchestra of the Americas in New York City. Their examples are coupled with the <br />examples of many composers throughout history, like the ones listed in this project's <br />proposed repertory. <br />25J -15 <br />