One day. he received a $10.000 money order from the Rex Foundation. out of the blue. The composer used the grant to help record his ninth symphony. In addition to supporting obscure composers. the Rex Foundation has assisted saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. bought uniforms for the finaciallystrapped Lithuanian Olympic basketball team. set up scholarships that have enabled Salvadoran refugees to go to camp and Sioux women to study medicine. and financed programs to eradicate blindness in Nepal. clean up rivers in Alabama. protect striped bass in California and feed the homeless in Boston. Rex Foundation money was used to record the prison gospel choir of San Quentin. In 1991.
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