Archive for the Instruments Category (17 posts)

Connecting Culture and Community: Newly Available Webcasts

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As part of our global mission, Concerts from the Library of Congress preserves all public programs for the national digital collections through film and audio recordings. Several webcasts of concerts, lectures and panels from the 2012-2013 season have recently been made available. Stay tuned to In the Muse for the release of even more webcasts in the coming months!

Concerts from the Library of Congress 2012-2013

How to View Webcasts

Death and the Civil War (Discussion)
February 27, 2013 – Coolidge Auditorium
Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University
Ric Burns, Steeplechase Films
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Presented in association with The Civil War in America

Music in the Lincoln White House  (Panel Discussion)
February 9, 2013 – Whittall Pavillion
Elise K. Kirk, White House Historical Association
Christian McWhirter, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, National Archives
MGySgt D. Michael Ressler, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band
Loras John Schissel, Music Division, Library of Congress
Presented in association with The Civil War in America

David Shoenbaum on The Violin (Pre-Concert Lecture)
December 18, 2012 – Whittall Pavilion
David Schoenbaum, Author, The Violin: A Social History of the World’s Most Versatile Instrument

The Musical Worlds of Victor Herbert (Pre-Concert Lecture)
December 3, 2012 – Whittall Pavilion
Alyce Mott, Victor Herbert Source
Loras John Schissel, Music Division, Library of Congress

La Risonanza (Concert)
November 29, 2012 – Coolidge Auditorium
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni, director
Yetzabel Arias Fernández, mezzo-soprano

20th Century Masters: Britten’s Coolidge Commission and Shostakovich’s Soviet Redemption (Pre-Concert Lecture)
November 13, 2012 – Whittall Pavilion
Nicholas Alexander Brown, Music Division, Library of Congress

A Conversation with Ron Carter (Interview)
October 17, 2012 – Whittall Pavilion
Ron Carter, bass
Larry Appelbaum, Music Division, Library of Congress

Daniel Hope, violin and Jeffrey Kahane, piano (Concert)
October 12, 2012 – Coolidge Auditorium
Works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Muhly (McKim Fund Commission) and Ravel
Daniel Hope, violin
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Nico Muhly, composer

Dvořák, Schoenberg and Brahms (Concert)
October 6, 2012 – Coolidge Auditorium
Works by Dvořák, Schoenberg and Brahms
Pamela Frank and Alexander Simionescu, violin
Dmitri Murrath and Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
Peter Wiley and Edward Arron, cello

For more information about Concerts from the Library of Congress, visit loc.gov/concerts.

 

A Rameaukin of Rameau’s kin

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On Saturday afternoon the Coolidge Collective (my new name for our dedicated audience) will descend on the Library for a fête du clavecin, served by the great harpsichordist and founder/director of Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset. The program will include a delectable assortment of harpsichord works both familiar and less so, featuring music by François …

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PagaNewni: Composers Rise to the Paganini Challenge–A Paganini Project Update

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Friday, February 1, 2013. The following is a guest post provided by Peter Sheppard Skærved, who recently appeared at the Library in events dedicated to its Paganini holdings and collection of Cremonese instruments. I am powerfully aware of the constant dialogue between past and present. Working as a violinist equally involved with the discovery of …

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Pic of the Week: Whistle While You Bike Edition

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The third annual Washington Tweed Ride (the autumnal iteration of the Seersucker Social, which we mentioned in the late spring) is upon us again, in which local hipsterati don their finest and pedal vintage bicycles around our increasingly bike-friendly town. In honor of the dapper velocipedists primed to pedal among the hills of our great …

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Five Questions: Intern Edition

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Thanks to Sharon McKinley, Senior Cataloging Specialist, for conducting these interviews with Carolyn Turner and Rachel Weiss, two of this summer’s crop of interns. What made you want to do a volunteer internship at the Library of Congress? Carolyn: My older sister Jessica was a Junior Fellow when I was twelve years old and she …

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Pic of the Week: Birth of the Sax Edition

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On this date in 1846, Belgian-born Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe”  Sax patented the family of instruments that bear his name.  The saxophone was originally developed in two categories,  an orchestral group and a band or military group, of seven instruments each.  Only a handful of these varieties are in common use today, although composer/musician Anthony Braxton, who …

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Arf Musica

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Today the blogosphere celebrates National Puppy Day. In the Muse throws their august paw into the ring with this unusual whistle made by an unknown crafstman.   According to the item’s description, “the dog’s neck contains a threaded hole indicating this was a handle for something, possibly a small walking cane.”  We do not know if …

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And the Strads Play On…

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The Strads. They make string players salivate, and everyone knows the name to be synonymous with excellence. But how much do you really know about these pristine creatures of sound? Let’s start with the name – “Stradivarius”. Many are at least familiar with the fact that these string instruments were created by the famous violin …

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