YourSun.com<\/a> (Sarasota, FL), Carrie Seidman writes, \u201cIn the latest step toward the realization of its future home, the Sarasota Orchestra on May 18 announced a gift of $11.7 million from an anonymous donor toward its new music center project \u2026 The donation brings the publicly announced total of fundraising for the center, which is estimated to cost from $375 to $425 million in total, to nearly $87 million\u2026. In February of last year, the orchestra received a gift of $60 million from another anonymous donor \u2026 That was followed in May by a $10 million gift from Jack and Priscilla Schlegel \u2026 Arts philanthropists Tom and Sherri Koski contributed an additional $5 million \u2026 Tom Koski serves as president of the Orchestra\u2019s Board of Directors\u2026. Joseph McKenna, the orchestra\u2019s president and CEO, said the recent gift was from a family that \u2018really loves what the orchestra is doing\u2019 and was interested in supporting a concert hall that is both state-of-the-art acoustically and more protected from climate impacts. In addition, he said, the donation underscores in general patrons\u2019 support for the orchestra\u2019s musicians, who currently contend with multiple logistical challenges due to a lack of space.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source symphony.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Sunday\u2019s (6\/14) YourSun.com (Sarasota, FL), Carrie Seidman writes, \u201cIn the latest step toward the realization of its future home, the Sarasota Orchestra on May 18 announced a gift of $11.7 million from an anonymous donor toward its new music center project \u2026 The donation brings the publicly announced total of fundraising for the center, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2462281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[389691,484307,484308,23362],"class_list":["post-2462280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-business-and-finance","tag-climate-and-sustainability","tag-grants-and-funding","tag-venues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Sarasota-Orchestra-Receives-Anonymous-117-Million-Donation-for-New-Music.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462282,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462280\/revisions\/2462282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}