Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader of the Harlem jaunt, as of the entire congress, was tweedy, affable, red-mustached Carleton Sprague Smith,* 34, president of the American Musicological Society. Dr. Smith once studied the flute at the Paris Conservatoire, decided professional flute playing was too uncertain a job, though he had worked his way through Harvard by fluting at weddings, in theatres. Since 1931 Dr. Smith has headed the New York Public Library's music division, a clearing house for musical information used yearly by 50,000 people, from schoolgirls to Cecil B. DeMille...
...Musicologist Carleton Smith, radio commentator at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium concerts...
...must go a great deal of the credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means...
...will be the first of two free public lectures to be held this week. The second will be given by Dr. Carleton Sprague Smith '27, chief of the Division of Music of the New York Public Library. He will speak on the "History of Music in America" at 8:15 o'clock on Friday in the Music Building. The lecture will be accompanied by the chorus of 16 voices...
Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...