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Robert Donaldson Darrell (1903–1988) – a former student at Harvard (1922) and composition student at the New England Conservatory (1923–1926) – became editor of the PMR. He took interest in jazz after hearing Ellington in 1927 and wrote positive reviews of his and other artists' work. In 1939, Darrell received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 * It amazes and astonishes ... Dr. Stokowski senses to the utmost the opportunity each climax, of each of the striking orchestral effects, and spurs on his men realize every possibility as richly and as vividly as their abilities allow. And under Stokowski's baton their abilities are apparently unlimited!


 * Darrell, who also wrote for Disques, by 1927, in PMR, was writing jazz reviews. According to James Lincoln Collier, in the "Jazz" entry in the 1994 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, "Darrell was the first writer on jazz to make judgements in print that generally hold up today." And, "he was the first writer to single out Ellington's Black and Tan Fantasy for extended comment."

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Family

 * Emma Cartwright Bourne (maiden; 1906–1986), born in Norfolk, Connecticut, a painter and etcher, designed a new cover for PMR, beginning with Vol. 5, No. 1 (October 1930), issued days after marrying – on September 30, 1930, in Arlington, Massachusetts – PMR's managing editor, Robert Donaldson Darrell. She was a 1927 graduate of Vassar College, her mother's alma mater (class of 1900). She had studied art with Richard Andrew (1869–1956) of the Massachusetts School of Art. Her design, in an art deco style, features abstract images of phonographic discs with an acoustic tonearm and soundbox, rather than an electrical pickup. Bourne also, in April 1932 drew a sketch of Isaac Goldberg for Disques magazine.

Smith College holds a lithographic portrait of an African-American man attributed to her and dated ca. 1940.

Bourne's work is in several public collections throughout the nation, including The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland and the Five College Consortium. From the Collection of the Abernethy Family, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. High-resolution photos are available at LelandLittle.com

Emma was a 3rd great grandchild of Shearjashub Bourn (1721–1781), Associate and Chief Justice of Rhode Island.

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 * . CAIA was a New York group active from the late 1930s through the mid-1940s founded by James Waterman Wise (1901–1983), a son of Stephen Samuel Wise and Louise Waterman Wise and brother of Justine W. Polier. James, among other things, is known for having warned of the dangers of Nazism in several books as early as 1933.








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