Abstract
THE AUTHOR is a music educator who lives in Darlington, near Baltimore, Maryland. Mother of five children, she became interested in improving musical opportunities for young people in Maryland and founded the ‘Young Audiences’ Maryland project in 1950, which she directed for six years, and also lent her leadership to its national program. She is the producer of the “Music for Young People” film series and serves as executive director of Arts & Audiences, Inc., a national non-profit audio-visual agency engaged in developing music teaching films for school and college level. In February 1957, she was selected as one of seven to receive a Marshall Field National Award for outstanding services to children (the bnly award to be given in music) for her achievement in creating the Young Audiences movement and the films based on its teaching approaches. The films have won a number of citations and now that they are available for classroom purposes, have received increasing attention.
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