This Weekend @ Concerts from the Library of Congress Friday, March 13, 2015 – 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium) KIM KASHKASHIAN (viola) & PÉTER NAGY (piano) An uncompromising advocate for contemporary music, Kim Kashkashian partners with Hungarian pianist Péter Nagy in this recital offering a new work written for them by László Tihanyi. Admired for “a rich, …
The following is a guest post from retired Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about Geraldine Farrar, famed soprano at Metropolitan Opera 100 years ago. I only scratched the surface of her collection at the time, and have learned so much more since then. I will be …
This Weekend @ Concerts from the Library of Congress Saturday, March 7, 2015 – 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium) CURTIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Robert Spano, conductor Roberto Díaz, viola Rachel Sterrenberg, soprano Robert Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, leads the Curtis Chamber Orchestra in an exclusive Washington, DC appearance. Sensational violist Roberto Díaz premieres a …
The HABITAT Technofiles event, originally scheduled for February 21, 2015, has been POSTPONED. We will announce the new date as soon as possible. All tickets for 02/21/15 will be honored for the future date. Please hold on to your tickets. No further information is available at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this has …
This Weekend @ Concerts from the Library of Congress Friday, February 20, 2015 – 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium) CLAREMONT TRIO & MISHA AMORY Winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, twins Emily and Julia Bruskin and Andrea Lam bring their talents to the Coolidge Auditorium. “Their exuberant performance and gutsy repertoire…was the kind of fresh approach …
The following is a guest post from Music Archivist Chris Hartten who will be presenting a High Noon Lecture in the Whittall Pavilion on Tuesday, February 24. The talk is free and open to the public – see the flyer below the post for more details. If ever there was a blue chip prospect among …
This Week @ Concerts from the Library of Congress Wednesday, February 4, 2015 – 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium) CALEFAX REED QUINTET After more than 25 years of touring as an ensemble, the Calefax reed quintet is known world-wide for its unique instrumentation and arrangements. Playing music ranging from early Baroque to Ellington and Gershwin, Calefax has …
On this day in 1925 President Calvin Coolidge signed into law a Joint Resolution from the 68th Congress of the United States of America “To accept the gift of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for the construction of an auditorium in connection with the Library of Congress, and to provide for the erection thereof…” This unique moment …
In the Muse is excited to announce our January film series, The 80s: The Decade that Musicals Forgot. The movie musical was in its death throes in the 1980s, with many of the era’s contributions to the genre considered gaudy jokes. But these films have a vibrant, colorful energy and a core optimism that contemporary musicals …