Partnering with organizations across the northwestern United States, the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust provides grants that span educational, cultural, spiritual, and research programs. Among the arts organizations that the Murdock Trust has supported for more than four decades is the Oregon Symphony, which stands out as the first US orchestra west of the Mississippi.

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2. Introduction
■ Partnering with organizations across the northwestern United States, the M.J.
Murdock Charitable Trust provides grants that span educational, cultural,
spiritual, and research programs. Among the arts organizations that the
MurdockTrust has supported for more than four decades is the Oregon
Symphony, which stands out as the first US orchestra west of the Mississippi.
The initial grant went toward arranging orchestral performances in schools,
which reached approximately 42,000 students. The most recent partnership
centered on enabling the symphony to set in place digital ticket scanners for
the concert hall, and to bring its website up to date.This has made it easier for
people to purchase tickets and attend concerts, and saved on time that
previously went into processing paper tickets by hand.
A concurrent grant aim is to enable the Oregon Symphony to expand its
programming in ways that reach the next generation of classical music lovers.
One noteworthy example of this was a production of Persephone that featured
puppetry in tandem with Stravinsky’s seminal work.