Scrapbooks and concert reviews, 1925-1986.
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Goldberg, Albert (Conductor)
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Albert Levi Goldberg was born on June 2, 1898 in Shenandoah, Iowa, attended Univ. of Nebraska (1915-16) and Chicago Music College (1920-22); M. Music, Gunn School of Music, 1923; also studied privately; became music critic of Chicago herald examiner, 1925-36; served as Illinois State Director of the Federal Music Project in the Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935-43; music critic, Chicago tribune (1943-47) and Los Angeles times (1947-65); lecturer, UCLA, beginning in 1948; became music sta...
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...
