Philip James papers

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Philip James papers

1929-1960 (majority 1929-1936)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/4927

Philip James (1890-1975) was an American music educator, conductor, and composer of over 300 choral and orchestral music works. In 1922 James co-founded and became the first conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In 1923 James began a long teaching career at New York University, serving as head of the music department from 1934-1956. His students at NYU included Milton Babbitt, Bernard Herrmann, and Marvin David Levy. From 1929 to 1936, James was conductor of the Bamberger Little Symphony, broadcast weekly over radio station WOR in New York. In 1932 he won a $5,000 prize from NBC for his satirical composition Station WGZBX, which subsequently received performances by many major orchestras. Other prize-winning compositions from the 1930s include his Bret Harte Overture, Suite for String Orchestra, and Song of the Night. The collection documents his career in music broadcasting.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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WOR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

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James, Philip, 1890-1975

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Incorporates themes from incidental music to Iphigenia in Tauris (1937). Composed 1952. First performance Kilbourn Hall of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 6 May 1967, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture to a Greek play / Philip James. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52433031 Based on the Welsh folk song Morfa Rhuddlan. Originally composed for ...

James, Philip

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Philip James, (1890-1975), American composer of choral and orchestral music, was born on May 17, 1890 in Jersey City, N.J., to a Welsh father and German mother. At an early age, he began piano, violin, and theory lessons, and served as choirboy in several New Jersey churches. He was deeply involved in the liturgy and music of the Episcopal Church and composed his first hymn at the age of ten. From 1904 to 1909 he studied organ with J. Warren Andrews and in 1907 began advanced harmon...