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Hartman Foundation pledges $1 million to Austin Symphony Orchestra
Austin Symphony Orchestra announced late Thursday that Austin arts patrons Claudette and David Hartman and the Hartman Foundation have pledged $1 million to endow the orchestra’s annual free summer summer concerts.
The Hartman gift will provide permanent endowment for the 12-week series of one-hour casual concerts performed on the terrace of the Long Center for the Performing Arts. The summer concert series began in 2002 and was first presented in Wooldridge Park before the Long Center opened in 2008. The Hartman Foundation has been the sole sponsor of the summer concert series since its inception.
“It is our hope that these free and very informal outdoor events will provide an opportunity for Austinites to become acquainted — or reacquainted — with a classical music experience at Austin’s new gathering place for the arts,” stated Claudette Hartman in a release from the orchestra.
Read a recent story on the orchestra’s summer concert series “Sunday in the park with the symphony.”
Photo by Jarrad Henderson/American-Statesman.
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