The Return of How I spent my summer Fellowship: Walter Damrosch

31 August 2010, Pat Padua Walter Damrosch. Bain News Service, unknown date. Prints and photographs Division.

This is the final set, this year the next Pruett Fellows blog posts. inscription to Catherine Hughes, Graduate student in musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

My independent study as one 2010 Pruett Fellows from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill switch Walter Damrosch role to study music Appreciation of the movement of the early in the United States. Damrosch committed itself to reveal his audiences, as well as the European "masterworks" American composers new composition.For a short period of time he served as Chairman of the Board of the company's own Opera impresario, the journeys made in the United States throughout the 1880s was also only. Damrosch in 1928, with the New York Philharmonic, the conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Society merger company with the 1890s and the New York Symphony Society from 1885 conductor. He shall carry out the George Gershwin an American in Paris and his piano concerto, Taylor and Charles Loeffler John Alden Carpenter works premieres.

at the end of the 1920s to extend his efforts to disclose Damrosch American audiences "Best music" concert hall. He began a regular radio broadcasts of classical music.In 1927 a lecture concerts NBC Damrosch and 1928 Damrosch began his Music Appreciation Hour for children on the same network. MAH continue until the spring of 1942. Damrosch designed his broadcasts for children so that they can be part of the curriculum of a school on a regular basis, and NBC are produced in the teacher's manual and the student notebooks for each period is used in the classroom. These Best Dog Ramps broadcasts, which were divided into different age groups designed four series, was the opening music for the younger generation "… and start their masters of music into the largest and most important works of the beauties in the area" (the instructor's manual Music Appreciation Hour 1929-1930, Broadcasting Materials section 15 folder 1, Damrosch Blaine Collection).

This project I worked mainly Damrosch Blaine site collection. I am interested in what song Damrosch programmed as part of his "masterworks" that music Appreciation of his audiences to justify any regression in relation to the presentation of and how he used these to illustrate and explain the essentials of concepts. Damrosch's broadcasts, and on his teacher manuals and student notebooks Damrosch Blaine collection transcripts reveal Damrosch decided to works and an important connection between his methods. Damrosch programmed primarily romantic orchestral pieces. He used to Beethoven's fifth and ninth symphonies Wagner's Ring Cycle, and Tristan on an annual basis, and he regularly programmed, Berlioz and Mendelssohn Brahms works. At the same time he turned later composers, arguing that "children should not be confused with the trials.Only that which is addressed to the value must be used as a basis for them. " Teacher manuals and student notebooks in the collection corresponding to the Damrosch's continuous process his teaching methods to clean the radio of his students.Damrosch was a systematic approach to teaching is listening. recognition of the instruments of the orchestra, he started and broad categories such as "fun in the music or" fairy tales for the music ".He is an example of these broad categories of different music more advanced students each year. Damrosch presented complex forms and historical styles listening. He alijäämässä these series parts were more consistent on an annual basis.

Damrosch, in order to supplement the Blaine site collection I also worked in Damrosch Mannes and collections, as well as Do Van Damrosch NBC history files recorded sound area held by the papers.NBC collection contains recordings from the many Damrosch's broadcasts and internal reports successes and weaknesses MAH.

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