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Archive: June 2014 (4 Posts)

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Braille, and Haüy, and Howe, Oh My!

Posted by: Katie Rodda

The Music Section at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has the largest collection of braille music in the world, with music from numerous national and international braille producers. One of the best represented publishers in the music collection is Howe Press, a braille publisher that was the in-house braille …

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Opera Fans Know What’s Happening, but the Devil is in the Details or…Libretti for Everybody!

Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins

Some of the Music Section’s most ardent patrons are operagoers.  This comes as no surprise to other opera aficionados, but blind/low vision operagoers are usually not able to pick up a program in braille or large print and read a synopsis when they arrive at the theater; that is, until they (or the opera companies) …

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Blues, Folk, and Fame

Posted by: Amanda Smith

Recently, on May 4, 2014, musician Happy Traum was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame.  Here at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, we are quite familiar with Happy because of his work in establishing the audio music company, Homespun Tapes.   As a local New Yorker and musician during …