Mr. Bolcom's Symphony No. 9 is on the way, commissioned by 11 university concert bands.
It was, in a way, commissioned by the President's Space Policy Directive-1, which directed NASA to focus on expansion and exploration throughout the solar system.
A three-way commission unites Chanticleer, the a cappella male vocal group; the venerable Handel and Haydn Society of Boston; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the East Coast premiere of a work by the prolific John Tavener.
The 2% one-way commission amounts to $6 an ounce, less than the markup for coins and bullion.
Planners are typically paid in one of three ways: commission and fees, salary plus bonus, or fee only.
A wooden figure carved by Johannes Maswanganyi is traditional in other ways: commissioned by an African healer, it is designed to be spiritually active.
It's presented in a striking way COMMISSIONING I recently commissioned a hand-tooled cowboy belt from Bill Briggs at Lone Tree Leatherworks in Montana.
Kickstarter has become a very popular way to commission pieces in the last two years or so -- this is how my group Time Travelers commissioned Andy Akiho to write his percussion quartet.
But that is the way the commission usually does business.
To fundamentally change health outcomes, we need to change the way we commission.
