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Robert Donaldson Darrell (1903–1988) – a former student at Harvard (1922) and composition student at the New England Conservatory (1923–1926) – became editor of the PMR. He took interest in jazz after hearing Ellington in 1927 and wrote positive reviews of his and other artists' work. In 1939, Darrell received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

It amazes and astonishes ... Dr. Stokowski senses to the utmost the opportunity each climax, of each of the striking orchestral effects, and spurs on his men realize every possibility as richly and as vividly as their abilities allow. And under Stokowski's baton their abilities are apparently unlimited!

Darrell, who also wrote for Disques, by 1927, in PMR, was writing jazz reviews. According to James Lincoln Collier, in the "Jazz" entry in the 1994 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, "Darrell was the first writer on jazz to make judgements in print that generally hold up today." And, "he was the first writer to single out Ellington's Black and Tan Fantasy for extended comment."

Selected work

• Darrell, Robert Donaldson (1903–1988) (1936). The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music (forward by Lawrence Gilman) – via Internet Archive .{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 36-27366; ISSN 2771-7879; OCLC 598224 (all editions).

1. Supplement. n.d. LCCN sv91-49863.
2. Supplement. 1938. LCCN 2022-204029

Family

• Emma Cartwright Bourne (maiden; 1906–1986), born in Norfolk, Connecticut, a painter and etcher, designed a new cover for PMR, beginning with Vol. 5, No. 1 (October 1930), issued days after marrying – on September 30, 1930, in Arlington, Massachusetts – PMR's managing editor, Robert Donaldson Darrell. She was a 1927 graduate of Vassar College, her mother's alma mater (class of 1900). She had studied art with Richard Andrew (1869–1956) of the Massachusetts School of Art. Her design, in an art deco style, features abstract images of phonographic discs with an acoustic tonearm and soundbox, rather than an electrical pickup. Bourne also, in April 1932 drew a sketch of Isaac Goldberg for Disques magazine.

Smith College holds a lithographic portrait of an African-American man attributed to her and dated ca. 1940.

Bourne's work is in several public collections throughout the nation, including The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland and the Five College Consortium. From the Collection of the Abernethy Family, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. High-resolution photos are available at LelandLittle.com

Emma was a 3rd great grandchild of Shearjashub Bourn (1721–1781), Associate and Chief Justice of Rhode Island.

Bibliography

References

• True List of Persons Seventeen Years of Age or Older Residing in the Town of Arlington Massachusetts.

1. "Bourne, Emma C., 22 Lakeview". 1928. p. 17.
2. "Bourne, Emma C., 22 Lakeview". 1929. p. 18.
3. "Bourne, Emma C., 22 Lakeview". 1930. p. 17.

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.

1. "Appel, Richard Gilmore" (revised & enlarged 4th ed.). G. Schirmer. 1940. pp. 26–27 – via Internet Archive (Friends of the San Francisco Public Library). LCCN 40-29670.
2. "Darrell, Robert Donaldson" (completely revised by Nicholas Slonimsky 5th ed.). G. Schirmer. 1958. p. 350 – via Internet Archive (ARChive of Contemporary Music). LCCN 58-4953.
3. "Darrell, Robert Donaldson" (revised by Nicholas Slonimsky 7th ed.). Oxford University Press. 1984. p. 543 – via Internet Archive (Arcadia Fund). LCCN 84-5595; ISBN 0-0287-0270-0.

• Darrell, Robert Donaldson (1903–1988) (1936). The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music (forward by Lawrence Gilman) – via Internet Archive .{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 36-27366; ISSN 2771-7879; OCLC 598224 (all editions).

1. Supplement. n.d. LCCN sv91-49863.
2. Supplement. 1938. LCCN 2022-204029

• New York Times (The) (May 7, 1988). "R. D. Darrell, 84, Dies; Recorded-Music Critic".

1. New York Times blog. . May 6, 1988.
2. New York Times blog. . May 7, 1988.
3. Permalink. Vol. 137 (47497): 31 (col. 1, middle) (Late ed.). May 6, 1988 – via TimesMachine.
4. Permalink. Vol. 137 (47498): 33 (col. 4, middle) (Late ed.). May 7, 1988 – via TimesMachine.

PMR references

• Johnson, Axel B. (ed.). "Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review". Jamaica Plain, Boston: The Phonograph Publishing Co., Inc. (publisher). {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help) LCCN unk84135656; OCLC 11380159 (all editions), OCLC 1762297 (all editions) & 499264168.

• PMR; Darrell, Robert Donaldson (October 1930). ""America's Premier Recording Orchestra – The Philadelphia Symphony"". Vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 16–19 – via Google Books . {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

• PMR; Darrell, Robert Donaldson (October 1930). "The Theremin". Vol. 5, no. 1. pp. 3–5 – via Internet Archive . {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

• PMR; Blackmur, Richard Palmer (1904–1965) (January 1931). "Necromancy – Embodying a Review of the Strawinsky Capriccio". Caricature of Stravinsky by Emma Cartwright Bourne (attribution is published in the March 1931 issue of PMR. p. 188). Vol. 5, no. 4. pp. 121–122. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

• PMR; Darrell, Robert Donaldson (March 1931). "Reviews of New Records" → "Capriccio". Caricature of Stravinsky by Emma Cartwright Bourne. Vol. 5, no. 6. pp. 185–195. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

Emma Cartwright Bourne

• "Background". The Vignette. Vol. 5, no. 2. Massachusetts School of Art. December 1927. pp. 19, 21, 28 – via Internet Archive.

• "Photographs" → "Class of 1929". The Vignette. Commencement Issue. Vol. 5, no. 5. Massachusetts School of Art. June 1928. p. 43 – via Internet Archive.

• Bourne, Emma. America – A Nation of One People From Many Countries. New York: Council Against Intolerance in America. OCLC 51509501 (all editions).
  CAIA was a New York group active from the late 1930s through the mid-1940s founded by James Waterman Wise (1901–1983), a son of Stephen Samuel Wise and Louise Waterman Wise and brother of Justine W. Polier. James, among other things, is known for having warned of the dangers of Nazism in several books as early as 1933.

• Bourne, Emma. (work not identified). St. John's College World War II Poster Collection. Part One: Posters, 1940–1945 bulk 1942–1945. OCLC 32055738 (all editions)

• Disques; Darrell, Robert Donaldson (April 1932). "Jacob and Isaac (and Daniel)". Vol. 3, no. 2. pp. 64–68 – via Internet Archive. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

• Smith College Museum of Art. Head of a Man, by Emma Cartwright Bourne (ca. 1940).

• Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Falk, Peter Hastings; Lewis, Audrey; Kuchen, Georgia; Roessler, Veronika (eds.). Entry → "Bourne, Emma Cartwright". Vol. 1 (of 3) "A–F". Sound View Press. p. 397 – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 2001-271878; ISBN 0-9320-8755-8; OCLC 42517882 (all editions).

• Who's Who in American Art. ISSN 0000-0191.