Muni; American Music Festival; Brooklyn Museum Concert & American Symphony Prog. 21
- Collection
- Muni
- Series
- American Music Festival
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-21ghxq4z
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- Description
- Description
- LT 3221 WNYC American Music Festival (2nd Annual) February 16, 1941 American Symphony Program 21. Brooklyn Museum Concert. Guest commentator, David Light talks about February being a historical month focsuing on two great Americans Today's concert is focused on those who labored in the worlrd of music, capture the spirit of America. America is rich is musical talent. From Harvard College is Walter Piston, Assistant Professor of Music. From Columbia University a suite by Daniel Gregory Mason. American composers are gaining more recognition. Attitudes have changed when evaluating new music. Signs of an advancing musical culture. Each new period of music is a result of changing political, social and religious influences. What we consider the standards we use today is itself a phase in musical history. More direct and realistic. Our hearing has been attuned to a standard to which all subsequent music is compared. One sign of a healthy development is the conscious employment of folk song material. Masons 1933 work is taken from English folk songs. Modified suite in 3 movements. Heaps praise on Mason. Cuts off. Announcer returns with some announcements about the Brooklyn Museum. Cuts off. Music begins suddenly during what turns out to be the Black Belt Suite by William Grant Still performed by the NY Civic Orchestra conducted by John Barnet with Joseph Block, piano. The concert was presented in cooperation with the WPA Music Project. George Ward is the announcer. End of 22nd program of 2nd American Festival. ? American Music Festival - American Symphony Program 21 Sigmund Spaeth announces, A Persian Fable by Elliot Griffes. Spaeth talks about the National Association of Composers and Conductors. He then introduces, Henry Hadleys The Entrance of Montezuma from his opera Azora. Recording is interrupted with a disc change. It appears to return in the middle of a selection by Granville English and ends. The announcer returns and says weve heard works by Henry Hadley, Elliot Griffes and Granville English performed by Macklin Marrow.conducting the WNYC Concert Orchestra a unit of the New York City Music Project. (WPA)
- Date
- 1941-02-16
- Genres
- Performance
- Topics
- Music
- Rights
- Owner/Custodial History: Municipal Archives
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Commentator:
Light, David
Composer: Piston, Walter, 1894-1976
Composer: Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1873-1953
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 37925.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: Data CD
Duration: 00:20:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 37925.2 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: Data CD
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 00:20:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 37925.3 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:20:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Muni; American Music Festival; Brooklyn Museum Concert & American Symphony Prog. 21,” 1941-02-16, WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 18, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-21ghxq4z.
- MLA: “Muni; American Music Festival; Brooklyn Museum Concert & American Symphony Prog. 21.” 1941-02-16. WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 18, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-21ghxq4z>.
- APA: Muni; American Music Festival; Brooklyn Museum Concert & American Symphony Prog. 21. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-21ghxq4z