Reminiscences of Eric Clarke : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Documentary film producer; author, MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Staff, Metropolitan Opera.

Scope and Contents

Initial impressions of Carnegie Corporation; organizing Carnegie music grant program, selecting albums for inclusion in Carnegie music sets, 1933-1934; MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Andrew Carnegie Centenary concerts; move to Association of American Colleges, 1935-1936; Carnegie grants to Peabody Institute, Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Saskatchewan; Library of Congress music program; Baltimore Department of Education music grant; American Council of Learned Societies, Community Musical Study, 1939-1944; coming to work at Metropolitan Opera; Federal Arts Program projects. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, John M. Russell, Robert M. Lester, Walter A. Jessup.

Subjects

• American Council of Learned Societies.
• Arts--Endowments.
• Association of American Colleges.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Clarke, Eric, 1890-1968--Interviews.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Music--Instruction and study.
• Oral histories (literary works)