[WPA Southern California Music Project scores]. [1935-1942?]

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[WPA Southern California Music Project scores]. [1935-1942?]

175 boxes (ca. 550 scores with parts) : music ; 40 x 32 x 27 cm. + 1 loose-leaf notebook index.

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Southern California Music Project.

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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...