Jan . 18 The mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne celebrated her 75th birthday and the 15th anniversary of her foundation.
"We'd like to have a hands-on role," she said of her foundation.
In a statement, Ms. Horne said Carnegie Hall's assumption of her foundation's duties was "a natural path".
Indeed, she now talks of her foundation's grants as investments to create sustainable change — a "portfolio," in her words, in which risk is balanced, dispersed and hedged.
Mrs. Dodge lived in Morris County, in Madison, from 1916 until she died in 1973, and made supporting the county one of her foundation's missions.
With documents showing the charity allegedly dispensed only $5,000 (£3,000) to outside organisations, Gaga insisted that critics have misunderstood the form and function of her foundation.
In a statement on the Web site of her foundation, Raising Malawi (raisingmalawi.org), Madonna, who has adopted two children from that country, said two innocent men were being sent to prison.
She wants to be able to start a family with Konstantin and expand the work of her foundation, and she still has huge ambitions for herself as a performer.
She has given as much of herself as she has of her foundation's money, and she kept a freshness in her giving when it would have been all too easy to be overburdened with the job she took on.
"I'm not dismissive of classical music and the Western canon," Ms. Oliveros said during a wide-ranging interview at the office of her foundation in Kingston, N.Y., where she lives with her longtime partner, Ione, a writer and performance artist.
