Career Development Grant

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,232

Fund Source

Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Recipient

Tyler W. Kaiser

Recipient Type

Individual

Status

Completed

Start Date

July 2015

End Date

September 2015

Activity Type

Grants/Contracts

Counties Affected

St. Louis

Lake

Koochiching

Project Overview

Career Development Grant

Project Details

"Les Uncomftables" rewrite

Competitive Grant Making Body

Board Members and Qualifications

Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Ken Bloom: Director of Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Peter Pestalozzi: furniture maker, wood worker; David Beard: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth writing studies; Mark King: actor, theater reviewer, musician; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Dana Mattice: Development and Communications Director of The Art Institute Duluth; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Advisory Group Members and Qualifications

John Gregor: photographer, art educator, community art advocate; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Ann Russ: music performer, community song leader, choir director, workshop leader, past director and founder of North Shore Music Association; Moira Villiard: visual artist and student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Erling Ellison: jewelry designer and creator, speech coach and judge, director of Garrison Art Fair; Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist.

Project Details: 2015 Fiscal Year

Legal Citation / Subdivision

Laws of Minnesota 2013, Chapter 137, Article 4, Section 2, Subdivision 3

Appropriation Language

ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage

2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount

$1,232

Other Funds Leveraged

$1,768

Direct expenses

$3,000

Administration costs

Number of full time equivalents funded

Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

When I receive the revised texts I will start recomposing and orchestrating the music. Also, a rehearsal score will be created. Ideally all of this will be completed in the early Spring of 2016 to allow for rehearsal time and continued editing of the music as needed. The production of the score ready to be rehearsed will measure its success.

Measurable Outcome(s)

I have put in about 400 hours of work on rewriting the score to create a new rehearsal score and am about 3/4 done. After that I need to re-orchestrate this rehearsal score into an orchestral score. I anticipate a minimum of another 400 hours of work and more likely twice that for the orchestral score. The rehearsal score should be complete within the next couple of weeks so the Lyric Opera of the North opera crew can get to work on rehearsing when they are done with their latest production. The size of the chorus is an unknown factor at this point but, the number of musicians and others involved in the end will exceed my initial estimate of 40.

Description of Funds

Source of Additional Funds

Other, local or private

Project Manager

Tyler

Kaiser

Tyler W. Kaiser

(218) 341-3528

tyk1451@gmail.com

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