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词条 Michael P. Hammond
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  1. Early life

  2. Education and medical studies

  3. Musical career

  4. National Endowment of the Arts and death

  5. References

Michael P. Hammond (June 13, 1932 – January 29, 2002) was an American musician, educator, and eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.[1]

Early life

Hammond was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and spent much of his childhood in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended Appleton High School, where he graduated in 1950. He was selected to attend to the American Legion's Badger Boys State program and then went on to represent Wisconsin as one of three senators Boys Nation program in 1949 where he was elected President. Upon returning to Appleton, he was welcomed back by a parade from the train station to city hall.[2]

Education and medical studies

In 1954 he graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin with a degree in classics and philosophy. He then studied at Delhi University, where he studied Indian music and philosophy. He took lessons in the sitar from Ravi Shankar. Hammond won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1956 to attend Oxford University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, and physiology at Oxford's Oriel College. He stayed on at Oxford to study pre-medicine, planning on entering a career in medical research.[3][3]

After completing his work at Oxford, Hammond returned to Wisconsin and spent a year on the Menominee Indian Reservation, learning to speak Menominee and studied the clash between whites and the native population.[3]

Hammond then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he worked at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an instructor in physiology and anatomy and a researcher in neuroanatomy. At the same time he also taught neuroanatomy and physiology at the Marquette Medical School.[6]

Musical career

He also served as the director of the Wisconsin Academy of Music in Milwaukee from 1966 to 1968.[4][5]

In the 1968, Hammond moved to New York to serve as the dean of music for the newly created State University of New York at Purchase. In 1977 he became the college's president, working in that role to 1980.[6] While in New York, Hammond served as an associate conductor with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and as music director and conductor of the Dessoff Choirs.[6]

Hammond served as the dean of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University from 1986 to 2001.[7]

National Endowment of the Arts and death

Hammond was appointed by President George W. Bush to head the NEA, and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 20, 2001. He began working at the NEA on January 22, 2002 but died a week later in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 2002. He was 69.[8]

References

1. ^{{cite news|author=Jame Auer |title=Hammond just began NEA tenure |work=Journal Sentinel |url=http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/jan02/16345.asp |date=30 January 2002 |accessdate=2008-05-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228052226/http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/jan02/16345.asp |archivedate=February 28, 2006 }}
2. ^"[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19490806&id=zfQZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2254791 Appleton Cheers Its Boy President with Big Parade]" Milwaukee Journal, August 6, 1949 at 8.
3. ^Willie Morris, [https://books.google.com/books?id=a23mDli2JqUC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq="mike+hammond" Shifting interludes] University Press of Mississippi, 2001. p. 132-33.
4. ^"Michael P. Hammond: Eloquent American polymath whose talents ranged from music to neuroscience." The Times (London) February 20, 2002.
5. ^"NEA Chief Michael Hammond is Dead, One Week after Taking Office {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604191539/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/67490-NEA-Chief-Michael-Hammond-Is-Dead-One-Week-After-Taking-Office |date=2011-06-04 }}" Playbill, January 29, 2002.
6. ^"[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/classified/paid-notice-deaths-hammond-michael-p.html Paid Notice: Hammond, Michael P.]" New York Times, January 31, 2002.
7. ^"Rice remembers Hammond at service on campus"Rice University, March 21, 2002. While dean, he directed a performance of the opera The Rake's Progress
8. ^Robin Pogrebin, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/arts/michael-p-hammond-is-dead-new-arts-chairman-was-69.html Michael P. Hammond is Dead; New Arts Chairman was 69]". New York Times January 30, 2002.
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