Remembering Relief: The Federal Music Project

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• Children's Festival for Pupils
  This black-and-white photograph captures four children singing into a microphone, surrounded by other children at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, New York City. The children are participants of a Federal Music Project Children's festival for pupils. The digital image is part of the National Archives exhibit, A New Deal for the Arts and the National Archives Records of Works Projects Administration. The photograph is taken from an unknown photographer at an unknown date.
• Free Band Concerts at the Bronx County Building
  This WPA poster for the Federal Music Project concert advertises free band concerts at the Bronx County Building, Grand Concourse and 161st Street in New York. The poster itself displays an illustration of a blue conductor from the waist up in front of a music stand.
• Russian Symphony Series
  This WPA poster for the Federal Music Project poster advertises a concert with Eugene Plotnikoff conducting Russian symphonic music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff & others at the Federal Music Theater at 254 W. 54th Street in New York City. The poster itself includes a design of blue and white instruments in front of a red background.
• Victory Concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  This WPA poster for the Federal Music Project advertises free concerts on Sunday afternoons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 5th Avenue and 82nd street in New York City. The concerts are sponsored by the New York Public Library, the Juilliard School of Music and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The poster itself includes an image of the Greek statue, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and musical notation on a green background.
• Second Series of the Composer's Forum Laboratory
  This WPA poster for the Federal Music Project advertises the second series of the Composer's Forum Laboratory, a project that featured music from new American composers with audience-involved question-and-answer discussions throughout the program. The forums were free to the public and occurred every Wednesday at the Federal Music Project headquarters at 110 W. 48th St. in New York City. The poster itself includes an illustration of musical notation behind text.