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Archive: February 2012 (9 Posts)

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Cataloger’s Corner: The Geraldine Farrar Collection

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. As a cataloger, I don’t generally become intimate with the Library of Congress’s special collections, but sometimes magic happens. Several years ago, I encountered American soprano Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) quite by accident in the course of creating a bibliographic record for her collection. …

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Pic of the Week: Contemplative Caruso Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

Iconic tenor Enrico Caruso was born on February 25, 1873 in Naples, Italy.   Over a career spanning 25 years, he performed at the world’s great opera houses, including nearly 900 appearances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone.  In this age of the mp3 we take recorded music for granted, but Caruso was one of …

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Pic of the Week: Politics and the Dancing Body Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The Music Division is proud to announce a new exhibition in the lobby of the Performing Arts Reading Room.  Choreographers have long used the medium of dance to express America’s cultural diversity.  Politics and the Dancing Body also explores the way choreographers employ the body as a tool in the fight against injustice.  The exhibit …

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Sheet Music of the Week: Aching Heart Edition

Posted by: Cait Miller

The past couple of years we’ve taken time out on Valentine’s Day to highlight love songs and love letters from the Music Division’s collections; however, Valentine’s Day is not exactly everyone’s favorite day of the year. I scoured our digitized sheet music for a selection that might speak to those who are not in love, the …

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Happy 200th, Mr. Dickens!

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Head of Acquisitions & Processing Denise Gallo. It’s not often that the Music Division dedicates a blog to a literary giant, but today we wish a happy 200th birthday to Charles Dickens, one of the greatest British authors of the nineteenth century. When he penned his novels, myriad …

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Sheet Music of the Week: Roses of Picardy

Posted by: Cait Miller

I’m sure there are plenty of In the Muse readers who share my love for the hit series Downton Abbey airing on PBS (am I right?). Every week I tune in to the addictive British period drama and a couple of weeks ago I swooned during that wonderful closing scene where Lady Mary sings “If …