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Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff was the director of the Federal Music Project. Before the Federal Music Project, Dr. Sokoloff was the conductor for the original Cleveland Orchestra from 1919-1933. Sokoloff appointed a staff of five Regional Directors, twenty three State Directors, and five administrative staff. In 1936, the Works Progress Administration ...
"Ballad for Americans" (1939), originally titled "The Ballad for Uncle Sam", is an American patriotic cantata with lyrics by John La Touche and music by Earl Robinson. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project production, Sing for Your Supper that opened on April 24, 1939. [1] Congress abolished the project on June 30, 1939.
National director Hallie Flanagan with bulletin boards identifying Federal Theatre Project productions under way throughout the United States. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States.
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 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1939 films. It includes 1939 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for musical films released in the year 1939 .
They Shall Have Music: Archie Mayo: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds: Musical: Samuel Goldwyn, United Artists: Those High Grey Walls: Charles Vidor: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens: Drama [9] The Three Musketeers: Allan Dwan: Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers, Gloria Stuart: Musical comedy: 20th Century Fox: Three Smart Girls Grow Up: Henry Koster
In 1939, Winter worked for the Federal Music Project in New York City, and assembled an exhibit on "Art Scores for Music" at the Brooklyn Museum, [6] called "the first international exhibition of scores for cabaret and concert hall music". [7] In the 1940s, dance historian Lincoln Kirstein solicited Winter to write for Dance Index, a magazine ...