Charles Leonhard: American Music Educator

Abstract

Charles Leonhard (b. 1915) was a pivotal figure in music education history. His career bridges the gap between the singing classes of the 1920s and the aesthetic education of the 1990s. Heller synthesizes a large amount of information from primary sources, interviews, archival materials, photographs, and teaching materials. He treats Leonhard's youth, his career in public school music in Oklahoma, and his work at Illinois. An outstanding contribution to the study of American music and education and to 20th-century American social and cultural history.