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"Midsummer Night Symphonies", Southern California Federal Music Project, WPA, ca. 1937. The Federal Music Project (FMP) was a part of the New Deal program Federal Project Number One provided by the U.S. federal government which employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression. [1]
A significant aspect of the Works Progress Administration was the Federal Project Number One, which had five different parts: the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Historical Records Survey. The government wanted to provide new federal cultural support instead of ...
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...
The Federal government disbanded the Federal Emergency Relief Corporation in 1935 and instead began a larger program called the Federal Music Project (FMP). This project was a subdivision of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the New Deal. Many orchestras in the United States were born out of the funding from this project. To the ...
Federal Music Project, a New Deal program of the United States federal government; Fren Melanesian Party, a political party in Vanuatu; Fronte Marco Polo, a defunct political party in Italy; Portuguese Maximalist Federation (Portuguese: Federação Maximalista Portuguesa), a defunct revolutionary movement in Portugal
Between 1935 and 1938 he directed the Federal Music Project, a New Deal program that employed musicians to educate the public about music. From 1938 to 1941 he directed the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and in 1941 founded the Chamber Music Society (now known as the La Jolla Music Society) in La Jolla , California.
The Federal Music Project was created as part of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression to support musicians by paying them to write music, provide music instruction, and participate in public performances. [8] The Sound Recording Act of 1971 extended copyright protections to digital recordings of music. [9]
John Manley Barnett (3 September 1917–6 December 2013) was an American orchestral conductor and musician. He played cornet, trumpet, violin and piano. In 1939, he became the youngest professional symphony conductor in the United States.