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 Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html 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.mu2005.wp.0042 IHAS 080813 loc.natlib.scdb.200033720