The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project
Span: 1935-1948
Bulk: 1936-1941
English
collection
91 ft.
272 boxes
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.
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.
The U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project, Music Division, Library of Congress
Federal Music Project
Working papers of the WPA Federal Music Project
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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
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009011
IHAS
120824
loc.natlib.scdb.200033720