Mr. Gardiner and his band, along with the Monteverdi Choir he founded, are scheduled to present two concerts of Beethoven monuments at Carnegie Hall in the week ahead.
Like Benyamina and Amamra, nearly all of "Divines" 's actors grew up in the banlieue; many of them came up through 1000 Visages, an organization that Benyamina founded, in 2006, to present filmmaking workshops for young people.
But Mr. Schulz — who founded Unsound both to present international artists in Krakow and to place Polish artists among their international peers — also wants to foster an international audience for deserving Eastern European artists.
He also helped bring jazz to predominantly black neighborhoods with Jazzmobile, an organization he founded in 1965 to present free outdoor concerts by nationally known musicians at street corners and housing projects throughout New York City.
Mr. Doran, an Irishman who had been recruited from the Perth International Arts Festival in Australia, came under fire earlier this year when he announced that productions by the company, which was founded in 1931 to present opera in English, would be accompanied by supertitles.
He had arrived in the United States in 1923 as a member of Serge Koussevitzky's entourage, then split with Koussevitzky in 1927, when he founded the Chamber Orchestra of Boston to present new works.
When news of Paradox's impending closure was announced in February, old-school organizers Sarah Origin and Scott Herman connected with Fever's founding creators, Scott Henry and Charles Feelgood, to present one last reunion party.
Instead, together with Mr. Salonen and other young Finnish composers — including another figure now prominent, Kaija Saariaho — Mr. Lindberg founded Ears Open, a society to present and promote new music.
When Le Poisson Rouge opened, in June, the two recent conservatory graduates who founded it said they planned to present classical music as part of a wide-ranging, eclectic schedule.
Those in revolt founded so-called independent theatres to present a more critical or scientific view of the workings of society or so-called art theatres to rise above vulgar materialism with the establishment of aesthetic standards.
