How You Can Help Us ...
Roane Choral Society is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors elected from both the chorus and the local community. Funding for our season comes from individual and corporate contributions. The Board and choral members work diligently to raise these funds ourselves in a continuing effort to bring our community the very best in musical performances. Generous contributions from sources such as those listed in our program enable us to continue the pursuit of our goals.
We hope you will consider joining the supporters of Roane Choral Society. Given the drastic reduction in monies from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Tennessee Arts Commission, we are increasingly dependent on contributions and ticket sales to enable us to continue our musical offering to Roane County and East Tennessee. As you consider your donation to our cause, please reflect a moment, if you would, on the words of actor Richard Dreyfuss:
“For some strange reason, when it comes to music and the arts, our world view has led us to believe they are easily expendable. Well, I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.
Perhaps we’ve all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts, in the first place. It is not only so a student can learn the clarinet, or another student can take an acting lesson. It is that for hundreds of years it has been known that teaching the arts, along with history and math and biology, helps to create The Well Rounded Mind that western civilization, and America, have been grounded on.
America’s greatest achievements - - in science, in business, in popular culture, would simply not be attainable without an education that encourages achievement in all fields. It is from that creativity and imagination that the solutions to our political and social problems will come. We need that Well Rounded Mind now. Without it, we simply make more difficult the problems we face”