The Presser Foundation Announces Scholar To Write Article on Theodore Presser

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Presser Foundation announces the selection of Dr. E. Douglas Bomberger to write a full-length research article on the life and work of The Foundation's benefactor, Theodore Presser.

The Trustees put forth a request for proposals for a full-length research article to provide a better understanding of Mr. Presser's background, influences, and accomplishments in relation to the events and ideas of his time and place. Dr. Bomberger, chosen amongst a pool of thirteen applicants to receive a $35,000 grant, will complete extensive research. It is the hope of the Trustees that the article will be published in a suitable academic or professional journal.  

Peter Burwasser, Trustee and Chair of the Sub-Committee to select the scholar noted, "The Presser Foundation looks forward to the first major biography of Theodore Presser with great anticipation and excitement. Dr. Bomberger's winning proposal for this project demonstrated superb research capabilities, enthusiasm about the subject, and a fine, lively writing style. We feel confident that we are in very capable hands."

About Dr. E. Douglas Bomberger
Dr. Bomberger, Chairman of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College, is a leading expert on nineteenth-century American music. He is the author of MacDowell (Oxford, 2013) and served as senior editor for nineteenth-century music for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition. He holds a PhD in historical musicology from the University of Maryland-College Park and an MM in piano performance from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before accepting the chairmanship of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College in 2005, Dr. Bomberger taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for eleven years.

About The Presser Foundation
The Presser Foundation was established in 1939 under the Deeds of Trust and Will of the late Theodore Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in the United States dedicated solely to music education and music philanthropy. The Presser Foundation supports music performance and education through undergraduate and graduate scholar awards, operating and program support for music organizations, capital grants for music building projects, and assistance to retired music teachers.  Much of the grant making focus of the Foundation is on organizations and institutions in the 100-mile radius surrounding Center City Philadelphia.  For more information: www.presserfoundation.org

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SOURCE The Presser Foundation