Federal Music Project Collection 1935-1948 (bulk 1936-1941)

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Federal Music Project Collection 1935-1948 (bulk 1936-1941)

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The Federal Music Project (FMP) Collection consists of agency reports, programs, catalogs, index cards, lists, correspondence, questionnaires, clippings, some music scores and parts, a few writings and the papers of George Allen Foster, regional director for New York and New England. The George Allen Foster Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, programs, clippings and reports.

111,190 items; 277 containers; 93 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Music Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357852

Library of Congress. Music Division

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Federal Music Project (U.S.)

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The prime objective of the Federal Music Project (1935-1939) and the subsequent WPA Music Program (1939-1943) was "...to give employment to professional musicians registered on the relief rolls." The project employed these musicians as instrumentalists, singers, concert performers and teachers of music. The general purpose of the Music Project was to establish high standards of musicianship, to rehabilitate musicians by assisting them to become self-supporting, to retrain musicians and to educat...

Federal Music Project (U.S.) George Allen Foster collection. 1935-1948.

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Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979

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Musicologist. From the description of Ballad of Hattonchatel : manuscript and typescript poem, 1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981474 Seeger was born on Dec. 14, 1886 to American parents in Mexico City; graduated from Harvard University, 1908; taught music at UC Berkeley (1912-19), the Institute of Musical Arts, N.Y. (1921-33), and the New School for Social Research, N.Y. (1931-35); served as asst. director, Pan American Union (1941-53); visiting prof., Yale Univ. (19...

Music Program (U.S.)

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Composers' Forum (U.S.)

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Frank Wigglesworth (1918-1996) was an American composer, educator, and champion of new music. From the guide to the Frank Wigglesworth papers, 1895-1996, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) The Composers' Forum was founded in New York by Ashley Pettis in 1935. Funded by the Federal Music Project (a division of the Works Progress Administration), its goal was to present the work of emerging American composers; in its early years it was also known as th...

Sokoloff, Nikolai, 1886-1965

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Foster, George Allen

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Foster, George Allen. George Allen Foster collection. 1935-1948

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