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John Tasker Howard papers

Title: John Tasker Howard papers, 1869-1995.
Author: Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 29	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-9 Box 29	Offsite
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Description

12 linear ft. (29 boxes)

Summary

The papers of John Tasker Howard document his professional life from the early 1920's until his death in 1964.

Uniform Title

Our American music (Radio program)
America in music (Radio program)
Music in America (Radio program)
Name that tune (Television program)

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Genre/Form

Scores.
Radio scripts.
Clippings.

Biography (note)

John Tasker Howard was a noted American music expert, radio host, writer, lecturer, and composer.

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Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.

Processing Action (note)

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Call Number

JPB 03-9

OCLC

NYPT04-A9

Author

Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964.

Title

John Tasker Howard papers, 1869-1995.

Biography

John Tasker Howard was a noted American music expert, radio host, writer, lecturer, and composer. His early involvement with piano, and his subsequent study of composition with Paul Tidden, Howard Brockway and Mortimer Wilson, provided him with the proper background for the numerous positions held over the course of his life. Some of his more noteworthy positions were: managing editor of the Musician (1919-1922), music editor of McCall's magazine (1928-1930), music editor of Cue magazine (1936-1938), curator of the American Music Collection at the New York Public Library (1940-1956), and secretary for American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP). Howard wrote numerous piano, choral and orchestral arrangements. Still, it was primarily as a writer that he came to the public's attention. His books Our American music and Stephen Foster, America's troubadour established him as an eminent writer on American music and a Stephen Foster expert. He later wrote Ethelbert Nevin (1935), Our contemporary composers (1941), This modern music (1942) and Music in America (1957, with G.K. Bellows). During the 1930s to the 1940s, Howard wrote and hosted radio programs such as America in music, Music in America and Our American music and was involved with the Name that tune television quiz show from 1955-1959.

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