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Alice Tully Circle - Planned Giving

Share the power of chamber music with generations to come.

Leave a Legacy  

Become a permanent part of our mission and share the power of chamber music with generations to come.  

Turn your passion for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center into a lasting legacy ensuring the future of this important art form with a planned gift. When you declare that CMS is included in your estate plans, you are invited to join the Alice Tully Circle, named for our visionary founder Alice Bigelow Tully. Planned gifts of any size are welcome.

Planned Giving Options  

Your planned gift can take a variety of forms. Some of the vehicles you might consider include:  

  • Bequest: Add a provision in your Will for unrestricted funds of a particular amount or as a percentage of the whole to CMS, or you may direct your estate gift to support a particular program.  
  • Beneficiary: Name CMS as a beneficiary in any of the following:
    • IRAs and retirement plans
    • Life insurance policies
    • Donor advised funds
    • Commercial annuities 

Benefits of Membership 

  • Private link to view livestreams of Open Rehearsals 
  • Special Member E-Newsletter 
  • Annual CMS Member Calendar 
  • Invitation to the annual Brandenburg Holiday Celebration (with purchase of a concert ticket) 
  • Access to the Hauser Patron Salon for Intermission Receptions at all Alice Tully Hall mainstage concerts (with purchase of a concert ticket) 

Did you take any of these steps already but do not see your name on the Recognition Page? Let us know by calling 212-875-5354. You may also fill out this Declaration of Intent and send it to us.

To share your decision to make a planned gift, or talk about joining the CMS Alice Tully Circle, please contact the Development team at 212-875-5354. 

Alice Tully

About Alice Tully, Founder of CMS   

Alice Tully was an American singer of opera and recital, a music promoter, a patron of the arts and philanthropist from New York. She also happened to be a second cousin of the American actress Katharine Hepburn. Miss Tully donated much of her income to arts institutions, often anonymously, throughout her life. Upon the launch of Lincoln Center, two of the groundbreaking arts complex founders—Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., Miss Tully’s cousin, and John D. Rockefeller III—approached her. They invited her to shape the ideal chamber music space and then convinced her it be named Alice Tully Hall in her honor. Under her visionary leadership, along with co-founders Charles Wadsworth and William Schuman, CMS grew to be the world’s premiere institution devoted solely to chamber music.

 

Main Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima