The School of Music at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
In Tuesday’s (10/28) Triad Business Journal (Greensboro, North Carolina), Anna Blumenthal writes, “The University of North Carolina School of the Arts has received more than $15 million in gifts, contributing to transformational changes to the university, including the launch of a new program and updates to the university’s library. For its School of Music, UNCSA received the university’s largest lead gift in its history of more than $10.1 million from Winston-Salem residents Randall and Kamalakshi Dishmon to establish the American Roots Music Institute. When fully launched, UNCSA will offer a Bachelor of Music in American Roots, alongside a minor for undergraduates and opportunities for students in its high school. School of Music Dean Saxton Rose said that the university had been working with the Dishmons in the past couple of years about developing a program in which students who play instruments involved in American roots such as the banjo, the mandolin, or the fiddle, would have a place to study in the same way that there is a place to study for classical musicians in a structured conservatory training environment…. Rose … hopes that this program adds to the school of music students’ range of performance abilities to be able to secure jobs and be marketable.”
