All University Orchestra Budget

Concert Donations (based on recent concert revenue, approximately $75/concert)

Fundraising efforts (primarily bake sales). Based on recent fundraising revenue.

Reccomend you raise another $150 to offset the new $1000 cost for paying section conductors.

$10/member/semester, based on recent membership of approximately 80-85 members.

The membership dues are cut in half to fund the fall and spring concerts, so $800 for each of the fall and spring concerts.

Alumni Contributions

Concert flyers for advertisement. This is our primary advertising method for our concerts. Asking for an increase from $25 so we can upgrade to higher quality advertising (i.e., larger and/or color posters).

Program bulletins (300 programs * $.50 per 18x11 sheet, front and back). Based on previous year costs. Asking for an increase from $100 because we ran out of programs at our previous concert.

Carnegie Music Hall rental. Based on rental price from past several semesters. We are too large to hold our concerts on campus, and have been doing this for many years now.

$550 of dues revenue allocated to rental facilities.

Rental of U-haul for transporting percussion equipment and other large instruments to and from Carnegie Music Hall for the concert.

Sheet music and scores. We will supplement program with borrowed music or music already in our library. Better funding in this category is vital to allow us to perform more interesting and engaging concerts, which is why we request an increase from $1000. Music from the past century and a half is especially expensive, and we've been limited to playing very few recent pieces each year.

$250 of revenue allocated to the increase in costs.

Recording fee for the concert, based on previous recording expenses. Last year, we lost funding for this, and hopefully we can get it back for next year. Perhaps we can contract a CMU organization to do this, such as AB Tech or cmuTV? Either way, it still remains very important for us to record our concerts.

Flute Choir budget for purchasing music and incidentals.

Concert flyers for advertisement. This is our primary advertising method for our concerts. Asking for an increase from $25 so we can upgrade to higher quality advertising (i.e., larger and/or color posters).

Program bulletins (300 programs * $.50 per 18x11 sheet, front and back). Based on previous year costs. Asking for an increase from $100 because we ran out of programs at our previous concert.

Carnegie Music Hall rental. Based on rental price from past several semesters. We are too large to hold our concerts on campus, and have been doing this for many years now.

$550 of dues revenue allocated to facilities rental.

Rental of U-haul for transporting percussion equipment and other large instruments to and from Carnegie Music Hall for the concert.

Sheet music and scores. We will supplement program with borrowed music or music already in our library. Better funding in this category is vital to allow us to perform more interesting and engaging concerts, which is why we request an increase from $1000. Music from the past century and a half is especially expensive, and we've been limited to playing very few recent pieces each year.

$250 of dues revenue allocated to the increase in cost

Recording fee for the concert, based on previous recording expenses. Last year, we lost funding for this, and hopefully we can get it back for next year. Perhaps we can contract a CMU organization to do this, such as AB Tech or cmuTV? Either way, it still remains very important for us to record our concerts.

Flute Choir budget for purchasing music and incidentals.

Concert flyers for advertisement. This is our primary advertising method for our concerts.

Program bulletins (100 programs * $.10/sheet * 2 sheets)

Recording fee for the concert, based on previous recording expenses. Last year, we lost funding for this, and hopefully we can get it back for next year. Perhaps we can contract a CMU organization to do this, such as AB Tech or cmuTV? Either way, it still remains very important for us to record our concerts.

Sheet music and scores. Most of music will come from our library, or will be borrowed. At least one piece will be rented/purchased. String Theory is asking for an increase from $100 for sheet music, for similar reasons as the main orchestra.

$100 of revenue from donations allocated to this increase.

Miscellaneous office supplies (file folders for new music storage, envelopes for collecting donations, among other things). Based on past expenses.

Although we haven't requested this in the past, it would be beneficial to us to have funds to hire professionals to occasionally lead our sectionals. This will certainly help us achieve better improvement as amateur musicians. We are asking for enough funding for approximately 10 professionally led sectionals over the course of the year.

$850 from remainig donations and fundraising efforts allocated to this new cost. another $150 in fundraising and you can find this new cost in full!

For our domain name. Previously cost us approximately $11/year, but the price has increased slightly.

Flyers for Fall and Spring Activities Fair (200 sheets per fair @ $.05/sheet).

2 basses at $35/month for 7 months. Based on last year's costs. (Please see the capital expense request: if we receive funding to purchase one or two basses, this price will go down or be eliminated for this and all future years.)

Conductor honorarium. Current honorarium for the conductor is $7500. We are asking for an increase because Jeff, our new conductor, has been going absolutely above and beyond in his work for the orchestra. His life is devoted to the prosperity and success of this orchestra, and it is certainly producing evident results. Jeff deserves more than we currently give him, and we'd like the JFC to help us make that a possibility.

Harpsichord rental and tuning. Based on previous costs. We often need a harpsichord for one or more of our concerts.

Professional musician hire for joining us in concert. We often need to attract a guest performer for harpsichord, piano, harp, or some other featured instrument in our repertoire.

To help increase and retain membership, we would to have an AUO social event once a semester, to encourage participation. We request $300/semester to hold such an event. (This breaks down to $300/event for 100 person events = $3/person/event)

The JFC will fund $100 per semester for food for rush/recruitment.

We have 11 executive board members working to keep this large organization running smoothly, and approximately 25-50% of the board is newly elected each year. We're asking for $10/officer for our first executive board meeting of the year, for us to purchase food and extend our first meeting into a team-building/bonding retreat of sorts. (Note, we have weekly meetings of the board that run 30-60 minutes, and do not plan to ask for food funding for any of these other board meetings.)

The JFC will fund $5 per person per semester for food for general body meetings. Note that if you made your retreat a seperate event, there is a larger chance you would get seperate funds for it.

Rental costs for 1 bass for 7 months ($35/month)

We have the space to store two stand up basses, and would love to own a pair (or at the very least, one of them). Currently, we rent two of them each year. Spending this money would decrease or remove our future bass rental cost.

Will fund one

Violin/viola string, in case of accidental string break.

Violin mutes, $1/each * 100

Woodwind repair kit.

Brass repair kit.