Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras renowned for its wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissioning initiatives, has received a generous $1 million challenge gift, the largest gift in the Orchestra’s 44-year history, from dedicated LACO subscribers and supporters Terri and Jerry Kohl.
The unprecedented challenge has attracted $1 million in additional support from two anonymous donors. The $2 million, raised as a result of the Kohls’ challenge gift and the other contributions, provides the foundation for LACO’s newly established Cornerstone Campaign, a major gifts and endowment initiative to further strengthen the Orchestra’s fiscal health, ensuring its continued artistic advancement and role as an indispensable community resource. Subsequently, two additional gifts totaling $200,000 have been donated to the Cornerstone Campaign.
States LACO Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, “Jerry and Terri’s Kohl’s magnificent gift – and the gifts of the donors who quickly stepped up to match their challenge – are not only a powerful statement of their belief in LACO’s importance as one of the region’s cultural crown jewels, but they also have tremendous symbolic significance at a time when so many orchestras around the country are fighting for survival. All of us at LACO are convinced that these gifts have opened a new chapter in the distinguished history of this great orchestra and that they will inspire many others to follow suit in helping to assure an era of lasting stability and dynamic growth.â€
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