Accomplishments

In addition to organizing and supporting a host of musical events, workshops and seminars, funding scholarships and grants, and awarding composition and performance commissions, JMCLA works with other organizations to provide funding and support for musical performance. We dedicated major funding for the Jewish Creative Arts Festival, Bezalel, at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in 2002 and 2003, and helped underwrite Hallelu presented by Synagogue 2000 at the Universal Amphitheatre. The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, (Dr. Noreen Green, artistic director) has received support from JMCLA, as has the Jewish Music Foundation, (Neal Brostoff, director) for its 2002 series Beyond Bim-Bom. We have also given grants to the UCLA Foundation for Jewish Studies and to the California Traditional Music Society for the work in concertizing new Jewish folk music.

Throughout our history, JMCLA has received numerous honors and accolades from other organizations. From 1984 through 1986, JMCLA was the recipient of a three-year grant for the Council on Synagogue Life of the Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles. In 1987, we received the coveted Solomon Schechter Award for Music at the National convention of the United Synagogue of America. In 1988, the Silver Angel Award was presented to JMCLA for its recording of the winning composition A Test of Faith, by Lawrence Goldberg and Marcia Hain. We are proud recipients of the 1995 Cultural Arts Award of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles for creating and presenting a cultural project that benefits the community.