Pandit Pran Nath La Monte Young Marian Zazeela Jung Hee Choi Charles Curtis Terry Jennings Angus Maclise Richard Maxfield Just Alap Raga Ensemble The Theatre of Eternal Music Kirana Center Teaching Program

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Become a Contributing Member of MELA Foundation

In addition to supporting the work of the Foundation, your membership entitles you to discounts on everything in the catalog, reduced or free admission to concerts and advance notice of new releases and publications. All members, starting at the Student level, receive merchandise discounts. Other benefits vary according to the level of your gift. There is never a shipping charge for standard shipping of your membership benefit.


$50 - Student Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& One Member's Rate Season Concert Pass
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$100 - Friend Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& One Member's Rate Season Concert Pass
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$250 - Associate Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& Pandit Pran Nath CD: Ragas Todi and Darbari
& Two Member's Rate Season Concert Passes
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$500 - Fellow Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& Newly Released Double LP of Terry Jenning's
Piece for Cello and Saxophone (1960)
& Two Member's Rate Season Concert Passes
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$1000 - Sponsor Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
Original Photo-Offset Print Concert Poster by Marian Zazeela
& Two Member's Rate Season Concert Passes
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$2000 - Donor Membership Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& Catalog, Marian Zazeela Drawings, Polling, 2000
& Two Member's Rate Season Concert Passes
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2023 Year End Special
$3000 - Contributor Membership
Unlimited Free Access to MELA Dream House
& Signed LP Set of La Monte Young's Trio for Strings, 2021
& Four Member's Rate Season Concert Passes
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$5000 - Patron Membership Signed Copy of Historic, Now Out-of-Print Publication An Anthology (1970)
Edited by La Monte Young, 1963
& Four Complimentary Tickets to ALL Concerts
& Open Invitations to Special Previews & Receptions
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Mailing Address: 275 Church Street #2, New York, NY 10013





Limited-time Log Cabin Fundraiser

The Bern, Idaho log cabin where La Monte Young was born and spent his early childhood made an indelible mark on the composer. Years later, he would cite listening to the wind whistle through the logs of the cabin's walls as one of his earliest musical memories. The sonic influence of the log cabin—the solitary drone of the plain, the electric buzz of a lone telephone wire—is particularly evident in the extended-duration compositions that cemented Young as one of the most significant composers in modern music history.

Today, however, the log cabin is in desperate need of repair. The roof has been severely compromised, and resultant water damage will soon render the structure irreparable without immediate intervention.

To raise the funds necessary for these pressing repairs, MELA Foundation is selling a limited number of archival postcards featuring Marian Zazeela's 1979 photograph of the cabin and signed by La Monte Young; 100% of the proceeds will go towards MELA's restoration efforts. For further information about the campaign, or to donate directly, please click here.

To purchase a limited-edition signed postcard from the MELA archives to support the Log Cabin's restoration, visit MELA's store page →





Become a Volunteer Monitor at Dream House

You can also help support Dream House's mission to provide Sound and Light by volunteering as a "Monitor"; for more information, please see below.



MELA FOUNDATION

Call for Volunteer Monitors

MELA Foundation is seeking interns for unpaid, volunteer positions of Monitor for the Dream House exhibition.

In the current collaborative Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, the new configuration of the Young and Choi collaborative sound environment is presented within the ongoing Zazeela and Choi site-specific light environment. In the light environment Zazeela presents three works: Abstract #1 from Quadrilateral Phase Angle Trvaersals, Ruine Window 1992 from Still Light and Dream House Variation I. Choi presents two works: Environmental Composition 2017 #1 and Color (CNN), live realization.

Description Monitor will open or close exhibition; turn on electronic sound equipment and turn up light environment; make sure all technical equipment is running properly; greet visitors; distribute information; answer questions concerning the environment; sell books and recordings.
Hours Exhibition is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight. Time slots from 1:30 to 6:30pm and 6:15pm to Midnight need to be filled on each of those days.
To Apply Please send an e-mail to mail@melafoundation.org, or visit Dream House in person at 275 Church Street #3 and speak with the monitor on-duty.
Click here to send an e-mail expressing your interest in monitoring Dream House.