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Delaware Symphony Orchestra recieves challenge grant

Delaware Symphony Orchestra

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra has received a $300 thousand grant to help expand its programs throughout the state. The grant from the Longwood Foundation is contingent on the DSO raising at least an additional $150 thousand dollars. 

Executive Director Alan Jordan is confidant they can reach that mark. “The Longwood Foundation requires us to achieve this by next April. I think we’re going to beat that by many months," Jordan said.

He said the challenge grant will help the DSO meet its ultimate goal of "becoming Delaware’s Symphony Orchestra, not just the New Castle or Wilmington orchestra.”

After folding in 2012, Jordan said the DSO wants to expand its programs to include family concerts, outdoor performances and more educational programs.

The Longwood Foundation is based in Wilmington and invests in the education, healthcare, and civic sectors, as well as the arts.

This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

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