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Your Legacy: Supporting Chicago’s Future Musicians
For more than three decades, Cedille Records has been committed to a singular mission: preserving and sharing the artistry of exceptional musicians through recordings that stand the test of time. Each album we produce is more than a moment in performance — it is a lasting document, ensuring that great music and great artists continue to inspire long into the future.
As we look ahead, Cedille’s organizational goal is sustainability: building the resources needed to continue recording, promoting, and preserving music for generations to come. While annual gifts make an immediate and meaningful impact, planned gifts play a uniquely powerful role in securing this future. They allow us to think beyond the present moment and ensure that Cedille’s work endures.
For musicians, a recording is a legacy — an artistic statement that lives on well beyond a single performance. It captures each musician or ensemble’s unique interpretation, expression, and voice in a way that audiences can revisit and rediscover for decades. In much the same way, a planned gift allows you to create your own enduring legacy.
“Just performing sometimes feels temporary. You perform, it’s out there, [then] it’s gone. But when you record, you’re creating something that’s going to exist like a visual work of art. It’s a permanent thing you have. [Recording] puts a stamp on it.”
— Anthony McGill, clarinetist
By including Cedille in your estate plans — whether through a bequest in your will or by naming Cedille as a beneficiary of a retirement account or life insurance policy — you extend your support beyond your lifetime. These gifts are usually simple to arrange, yet profoundly impactful. They help ensure that future artists will have the opportunity to record their work and that listeners everywhere will continue to experience the richness and diversity of classical music.
Your legacy can be one that champions artistry, preserves culture, and sustains an organization you value. With thoughtful planning today, you can help ensure that Cedille’s music — and your commitment to it — continues to resonate for generations to come.
For questions or more information, please contact Julie Polanski (julie@cedillerecords.org, 773.989.2518).
Recommended
From Chicago-based composter Stacy Garrop comes INVICTUS, Latin for “unconquered.” The work unfolds across four movements and an interlude, moving between lyrical introspection, fierce determination, and triumphant resolve, with Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian and the Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of Artistic Director Scott Speck. Available 5/8.
Haymarket Opera Company presents early-18th-century master Leonardo Vinci’s rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci’s three-act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring his father’s murderer to justice amidst betrayal, deceit, and mistaken identity.
To celebrate Stacy Garrop‘s piano concerto, INVICTUS (5/8 release), based on a poem about perseverance and resilience in adversity, a playlist of Cedille tracks that represent struggle against prohibitive odds — explicitly in words or as program music, or inherently in their musical nature.
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