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Ted Libbey is the Director of Media Arts programs for the National Endowment for the Arts. In that capacity, he supervises the panel selection and grantmaking process for media arts (film, television, and radio) and provides professional leadership to the field. Libbey supervises media production for the NEA National Initiative the Big Read. He also manages the partnership with XM Radio to produce the "NEA Literary and Jazz Moments" series. Prior to joining the National Endowment for the Arts in September 2002, Mr. Libbey was a well-known commentator on National Public Radio's "Performance Today." In 1992, he was a programming consultant and coordinator for the John F. Kennedy Center's "Tribute to Germany," a multi-venue festival of German music, theater, dance, and film. From 1984 to 1996, Libbey was consultant to the United States Information Agency's Artistic Ambassador Program, conducting competitive auditions for hundreds of musicians who played in U.S. embassies around the world. He received the USIA's Award for Outstanding Service in 1988. In the 1970's, Libbey helped administer the NEA's Composer/Librettist Program. Mr. Libbey has served as an editor of Schwann Inside, High Fidelity, and Musical America magazines, and as a music critic for the New York Times and the Washington Star. His published works include The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection; Symphonic Portraits: A Classical Portfolio; Isaac Stern: A Carnegie Hall Tribute; histories of Carnegie Hall and the National Symphony Orchestra. His latest book, NPR Encyclopedia of Classical Music, was published in April 2006. Libbey attended Yale University as a Yale National Scholar majoring in history, the arts, and letters and graduated with honors in 1973. He then pursued graduate studies in music at Yale and Stanford University.
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