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Featured Stories: Legacies that Nurture the Arts

Oscar Williams portrait

Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood

Poet-anthologist and poet-artist lived ascetically in a “cold-water penthouse.” Left legacy at The Trust for emerging artists. Oscar Williams (1899-1964)…

A gavel rests on an open law book with a justice scale in the background.

Henry Holbrook Shepard

He had a law office on Wall Street, but who was Henry H. Shepard? His Fund at The Trust supports…

Kate Stephens portrait

Professor fired for her gender and religious beliefs, rallied for women’s rights. Kate Stephens (1853-1938) It was a warm June…

Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Flagstad

A tribute to a soprano sustains opera. Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) Kirsten Flagstad made her American debut at the Metropolitan Opera…

Featured Stories: LGBTQ+ Donors

Nico Muhly and Coco Lazaroff sitting in a green old car outside The Metropolitan Opera. Photography by Nico Iliev.

A Staten Island dentist to transgender opera patron. Her fund at The Trust supports transition surgery for young people. Coco…

A black and white sketch of a large shed outside by Adam Patrick Joseph O’Connor.

Adam Patrick Joseph O’Connor

Writer and editor of scholarly music journal, his life was cut short by AIDS. Fund at The Trust dedicated to…

Portrait of Annie Tinker

Annie Rensselaer Tinker

A forward thinker, wartime volunteer, and fearless advocate for women’s rights. A native New Yorker, Annie’s short life was defined…

A dedicated advocate for the LGBTQ community. Today, his generosity supports LGBTQ youth and elders in New York. Sam Wilner…

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