MEMBERSHIP/SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM:
- For the Basic Membership/Subscription of $60 per year, participants receive 2 volumes of
the CMS Archive Selection CDs annually, as well as insider updates on the Archive Project,
notices and discounts on CMS events and workshops, including Oral History events and access
to music online.
- For the Premium Membership/Subscription of $95 per year, in addition to the basic member
benefits, participants become Sustaining Members with special credit listings in CD liner notes,
and exclusive full access to the CMS Online Archive, including webstreams of unreleased tracks
and videos, blogs and new concert recordings.
Please send your pledge to creativemusicstudio@gmail.com
All additional contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law:
the Creative Music Foundation, Inc is a 501©(3) tax-exempt organization,
incorporated in New York State.
- Please make checks payable to “Creative Music Studio” and
send to CMS, POB 671, Woodstock, NY 12498.
- Or simply make your pledge by email to creativemusicstudio@gmail.com,
stating your postal mailing address.
The inaugural CD’s will be sent directly to the address you provide with additional information
on how to access online streaming, event info, etc.
The Membership/Subscription program helps ensure that the digital remastering and distribution
of these singular recordings will continue.
DONATIONS / SPONSORSHIP
Your support is needed for the monumental and exciting start of the Creative Music Studio (CMS)
Archive Project. This historically important project will result in an international treasury
of jazz, world music, and new music from the 1970’s and 1980’s. Re-mastering music from
CMS concerts performed by world-famous musicians is the beginning point. The project will publish
rich oral histories from these history-making musicians, a collaborative effort between CMS
and Columbia University, New York City.
Why? History is an important tool for the birth of new music. CMS in Woodstock, New York
is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of world-jazz. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times
recently wrote about CMS: “.. a definite history of jazz in the 1970s – a book yet to be written –
ought to give it central importance.”
The CMS Archive Project includes:
Twelve Compilation CDs.
Selection from 400 concerts based on artistic excellence,
this musical collection exists nowhere else.
Oral History Project.
A book will be published with first-person accounts as they are still available today,
guaranteeing vibrant and vital histories of the evolution of jazz, world music and new music.
Columbia University Jazz Studies Online to Stream the Music.
This is a significant educational resource and important public venue.
Sales from the CDs and Book.
These will provide support for current CMS educational program and scholarships.
Internationally significant and historically urgent, your support will make this project possible.
Of the $250,000 needed for this project, CMS has collected s $49,500. We need your help today.
Our suggested levels of support provide some tokens of our appreciation.
Friends of CMS
Individual donations of any amount are greatly appreciated.
Premium Archive Supporter
For your gift of $100 or more, you are entitled to pre-release copies of 4 Archive CDs
and your name will be listed as an Premium Archive Supporter in the CD case booklets.
Archive Patron
For your gift of $1,000 or more you will receive
Robert Sweet’s book Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio,
describing the history of CMS in the 70s and 80s
2 CDs from each of the Archive Project’s first 12 CDs
1 set of the 12 CDs will be signed by several of the musicians
Your CDs will be sent to you pre-release.
Your name will be listed as an Archive Patron in the CD case booklets.
We hope you share our enthusiasm for this unique legacy project and that you’ll give generously.
If you would like more information, we would be happy for you to email, write or give us a call.
Please make checks payable to CMS (or Creative Music Studio).
The Creative Music Studio is part of the Creative Music Foundation, Inc.,
a 501©(3) charity incorporated in New York State.
Or simply make your pledge by email at creativemusicstudio@gmail.com, indicating
your postal mailing address.
Again, please note that our new email address is creativemusicstudio@gmail.com