N.C. in Tune
Sing. Play. For Life!
A Resolution
WHEREAS, music touches our lives from early childhood through our adult years in many forms and places – nursery rhymes, operas, work songs, ballads, CDs, and radio; at schools, churches, symphony halls, fiddlers’ conventions, and festivals; and
WHEREAS, more than 1,200 music organizations exist in North Carolina, including 48 performing organizations dedicated to orchestral music; and
WHEREAS, the creative people engaged in the art and business of music – singers, recording engineers, conductors, band and choral directors, songwriters, composers, and musicians – enrich our cultural life and add to what makes our state an attractive place to live, work and raise a family; and
WHEREAS, our blues, gospel and Blue Ridge music traditions are known around the world, and contribute to a creative economy fueled by the growth of cultural tourism in North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, many North Carolina musicians, including James Taylor, Roberta Flack, John Coltrane, Doc Watson, Billy Taylor, Shirley Caesar, Thelonious Monk, Randy Travis, Nina Simone, Earl Scruggs, and Kate Smith, have gone from being citizens of our state to citizens of the world; and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina Arts Council has supported music in all its forms for more than 40 years, including classical, traditional, jazz, blues and bluegrass; and
WHEREAS, the arts have been designated a part of the core curriculum in American education, and music is found in every school in the State -- in classrooms, band rooms, choirs, jazz bands, pep bands and orchestras, taught by nearly 3,000 music teachers K-12; and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina Symphony, the first state funded symphony orchestra in the United States, will celebrate its 75th birthday in 2006-2007; and, as a full-time professional orchestra under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, performs about 170 concerts a year both in the Triangle and around the State; and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina School of the Arts has been educating musicians at the secondary and university level for 40 years; and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources nurtures the cultural life of our State, and oversees libraries with thousands of CDs and volumes about music; historic sites where many programs include authentic music; the office of archives and history, which oversees state highway markers, many of which honor musicians and musical themes; the museums of Art and History, where music is often a feature of their exhibitions; the state archive, where the history of music and musicians is housed; the North Carolina Symphony, which travels the State to bring classical works to our citizens; and the North Carolina Arts Council, which funds orchestras, opera companies, music ensembles and festivals, creates Web based music trails, produces a Touring Artist Directory, organizes an ArtsMarket for booking musicians and other artists, and awards fellowships to songwriters and composers;
NOW, BE IT RESOLVED that 2006 be known as “N.C. In Tune” to honor and promote the vast and gloried tradition of music in North Carolina, and its dynamic and influential future as an art form and a way of life.
LISBETH C. EVANS
Secretary, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord two thousand and five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
The following organizations have endorsed this resolution:
Community Music School, Raleigh, N.C.
Carolina Ballet
Blumenthal Center for Performing ArtThe Sparta Teapot Museum Board of Directors
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