75th Anniversary Supplement
MPTF TIMELINE
1948
Agreement signed by 375 phonograph record and 70 electrical transcription manufacturers founded the Recording Musicians Performance Trust Fund with Samuel Rosenbaum serving as trustee
1952
350 Pennsylvania high school students awarded scholarships
1958
First matching grant awarded to Young Audiences Arts for Learning
1967
First American Folklife Festival with the Smithsonian Institution during Jazz Appreciation Month
1970
MPTF receives Certificate of Appreciation from the New York City Mayor John Lindsey
1979
Grants awarded for $1 million in performances
1980
First National Veterans Creative Arts Festival
1983
Music 4 Kids program began (now Music in the Schools)
1993
First Broadway on Broadway Festival (now Curtain Up Broadway Festival)
2000
MPTF sponsors 100 concerts in coordination with Louis Armstrong’s 100th birthday
2001
Following 9/11 attacks, MPTF co-funds a Broadway tour, led by Sandy Duncan, visiting 14 cities in 16 days to draw theatergoers back to New York City
2005
MPTF sponsors performance at Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl
2015
First year of MPTF MusicianFest in senior centers (4,699 performances, $1.2 million+ in funding to date)
2019
MPTF Never Too Old documentary released (finalist at The Cutting Room International Short Film Festival)
2020
First MPTF livestreamed event sponsored (1,500+ events to date)
2021
March Women in Song Festival in Toronto (co-sponsored with FabCollab) sets MPTF streaming record of 3,500 viewers
