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Archive: October 2011 (10 Posts)

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Five Questions: Florence Barber

Posted by: Pat Padua

The Music Division congratulates Florence Barber, who is leaving the Library after a long and storied career.  Cait Miller posed Five Questions to Florence. Florence, how many years have you worked for the Library of Congress? How long have you been in the Music Division specifically? Well, I have been employed by the Library of …

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Pic of the Week: Lisztomania Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post from Senior Reference Specialist Kevin LaVine. Please note that tickets are still available for events in our Franz Liszt Bicentennial Project, with concerts in the Coolidge Auditorium from October 19-November 5. Please visit our Concert page for information on specific events.   For some events, tickets may be reserved …

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“I Love Lucy” at 60 Years Old

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Senior Music Specialist Ray White. Sixty years ago, on October 15, 1951, America met Lucy and Ricky Ricardo for the first time.  She was a housewife with dreams of a career in show business, and her bandleader husband was as determined to keep her out of show business …

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Pics of the Week: Old Friends — Simon and Garfunkel at 70 Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post from Music Division Contract Archivist Janet McKinney. Can you imagine us years from today, Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be seventy… Old friends Seventy years ago today on October 13, 1941, Paul Simon was born. Three weeks later, Arthur Garfunkel was born on November 5th. …

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Pic(s) of the Week: Prohibition Songbooks

Posted by: Cait Miller

  Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary, “Prohibition,” aired this week on PBS and I’m sure that many of you have seen it already (if you haven’t caught it on TV yet, you can watch it online here!). In the film, Burns and Novick explore the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to …

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Sheet Music of the Week: The Birth of Cinema Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

This week’s featured sheet music celebrates one of the pioneers of  cinema.  The aptly named Louis Lumière was born on this day in 1864.  In 1895 Louis and his brother Auguste patented the cinématographe, a device that worked as a film camera, developer and projector.  This was in contrast to Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, first demonstrated in 1891, …