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The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project [collection]

Title

The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project [collection]

Dates Created

Span: 1935-1948

Bulk: 1936-1941

Language

English

Form

collection

Physical Description

91 ft.

272 boxes

Abstract

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 educate the public in the appreciation of musical opportunities. Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, former conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, was appointed Director of the Federal Music Project.

Contents Note

Other Federal Music Project materials can be found in the Federal Writers' Project, which is housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and in the Federal Theatre Project, which is in the Music Division. WPA recordings of performances of various musical groups sponsored by the Federal Music Project are housed in the Recorded Sound Division of the Library. Materials from the Federal Arts Project are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library. Additional FMP materials are in the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 69, Washington, DC.

Preferred Citation

The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project, Music Division, Library of Congress

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Copyright

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Subjects

Chamber Music

Choral Music

Folk Music

Opera

Orchestral Music

Songs

Foster, George Allen

Seeger, Charles

Sokoloff, Nikolai

U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Finding Aid

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009011

Last Updated: 08-24-2012