... Black Mountain College Crawford Ruth Guggenheim fellows musical culture Sessions Roger Still William Grant philanthropy Guggenheim Foundation racism antisemitism contemporary music scholarship Circle of Winners has been a work-in-progress since the spring of 2008...

... Publishing Institute Corporation EPIC EPIC Educational Publishing Institute Corporation “Furia” Fiorillo Kirkpatrick Ralph “Madonna and Child” Fiorillo “Music of Youth” Fiorillo Surette Louis Athanase Black Mountain College Guggenheim Foundation Aydelotte family John Rice Thomas Whitney Surette...

...This chapter focuses on Beyer's plan for an opera called Status Quo, for which she decided to apply for a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in the summer of 1937. In her Guggenheim proposal, Beyer explained that she wished for the opera to be significant to the “modern age...

... Guggenheim composition fellows Hanson Howard modernism musical musical styles Pan American aesthetic Sowerby Leo Surrealists Thompson Randall Watts Wintter Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau Guggenheim Foundation Silver mining Senator Simon Guggenheim John Simon Guggenheim Pan-Americanism...

... Randall Juilliard Musical Foundation Crawford Ruth Guggenheim fellowships Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Scholars selection process Educational Advisory Board Guggenheim Fellowships in Music Research Haskins Charles Homer Guggenheim Foundation Thomas Whitney Surette Extension Service...

...The Concluding Thoughts provide space to reflect on lessons learned from a study of the early years of the Guggenheim Foundation, one of the first institutional philanthropies dedicated to supporting composers. It reviews the impact of Thomas Whitney Surette as advisor, the significance of Aaron...

... Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau Guggenheim Foundation Aaron Copland Roger Sessions George Antheil Ruth Crawford William Grant Still Carlos Chávez Between 1925 and 1940 the foundation awarded thirty-five different composers a total of fifty-five fellowships for creative work in music. Through...

..., and Columbia University. It concludes with discussions of Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, Ruth Crawford, William Grant Still, and Carlos Chávez and the ways their selection, encouragement, and promotion by the Guggenheim Foundation shaped their lives, their professional careers, and the nation’s...