Taylor Swift hits right notes with $50,000 donation to orchestra
Taylor Swift has continued her campaign to be named pop’s most generous person with a donation of $50,000 (£33,000) to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Swift wrote to Ludovic Morlot, the orchestra’s conductor and music director, explaning that she had been inspired by a recording of John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean, which was commissioned by the Symphony.
The Seattle Times reports that Swift’s donation is to be used to help fund two of the orchestra’s programmes: Link Up, which sends artists into primary schools for a week at a time to teach music, and its musicians’ pension fund.
He added: “We’re especially thankful that she wishes to support our musicians and that she shares our belief that all people should be able to experience symphonic music.”
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