Douglas Moore

This is a recording of the 1954 awards ceremony of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The host, Archibald MacLeish, begins the ceremony with an address about the trial of art-making in America in terms of community, censorship and its complicated relationship to science.

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Opening concert for the 15th Annual American Music Festival.

Seymour Siegel introduces the program by discussing WNYC's role in opening a "channel of communication in a democracy" and ...