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Carl Engel. Mock-up program for first Coolidge Foundation Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress, 1925.
Program for the Library's First Festival of Chamber Music
While Coolidge traveled to Europe during the summer of 1925, Engel oversaw preparations for the first festival of chamber music, which would take place that fall. Engel drew a mock-up program for the festival, including a logo for the concert series -- a patriotic eagle carrying a lyre in its talons instead of arrows. As he described to Coolidge in a letter, "All the world knows that the American Eagle has a voice . . . what will be news to most people, is that the Eagle's voice has of late acquired suaver and more melodious accents." |