 Its composer-in-residence program, known as the Copland House Residency Awards, began in November 1998 and is an official project of the federal "Save America's Treasures" program.It awards six to nine emerging or mid-career American composers the opportunity to work and reside, one at a time, at Rock Hill.Composers who apply and are approved, are afforded three-to-eight-week stays in the house, with an allowance for food and the use of a car, while they work.