Joe Maddy of Interlochen

by Norma Lee Browning

Overview

Music lessons, Joe Maddy has always felt, should not be painful. They are an exciting experience at the Interlochen Arts Academy or any of the other thousands of schools around the world to which Doctor, Professor and conductor Maddy’s influence has extended during the past forty-five years.

Joe Maddy of Interlochen is the lively story of one of America’s best-known, best-loved, and most colorful pioneers in music. Joe Maddy came to Interlochen, Michigan in 1928 to found the first national summer music camp. A Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, he was short on financial support, but not on enthusiasm and skill. In 1961 the music camp was reorganized as the year ‘round Interlochen Arts Academy....

The activities at Interlochen now embrace art, drama, dance, and other academic subjects, but the teaching of music remains the primary purpose. His success at teaching was highlighted in August, 1962, when an Interlochen delegation of 103 musicians and 14 ballet dancers had the honor of entertaining President Kennedy and a large audience on the lawn of the White House....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787208865
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Norma Lee Browning (November 24, 1914 - June 11, 2001) was an American reporter, feature writer and columnist. In a career that span four decades, she who won national acclaim for her skill in investigating social issues, and was profiled in Time, Newsweek and the New Yorker for her work covering southern white migration, drug addiction and crowded military hospitals after World War II.

Born in Spickard, Missouri, she received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri in 1937, followed by a master’s degree in English literature from Radcliffe College. She wrote for the Los Angeles Herald Express before joining the Chicago Tribune as a feature writer in 1944. She was assigned to Hollywood in 1966, where for the next decade she wrote a syndicated column about celebrities.

Her stories were illustrated by photographs taken by her husband, Russell J. Ogg, whom she married in 1938. When his eyesight failed, the couple retired from The Tribune in 1975 and moved to Palm Springs, Florida.

Browning was the first woman to win the paper’s Edward Scott Beck Award for a series on medical quackery in 1949, which she followed with a similar well-received series in 1961. In her later career, she wrote more than a dozen books, including “The Other Side of the Mind” with W. Clement Stone.

Browning died in Palm Springs, California in 2001, aged 86.