$21,000 DONATION FOR ARTS SCHOOL
The Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts will receive a $21,000 donation from singer Barry Manilow, the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences and the James Nederlander Organization.
The contribution marks the first significant source of outside funding for the school, located on the Cal State L.A. campus.
According to Ron Kramer, president of the recording academy’s Los Angeles chapter, the money, which was generated by Manilow’s Oct. 5 concert at the Greek Theatre, will go toward a scholarship fund.
The academy, which bought a block of tickets for Manilow’s concert at $30 each, sold its tickets for $50, $100 and $200 and raised $7,000. It then added an extra $1,000.
Manilow, who visited the school while he was in town, matched those funds, and Nederlander, which operates theaters including the Greek, contributed $5,000 to the fund.
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