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Posted by: Pat Padua
This is the last of a series of blog posts by this year’s Pruett Fellows. The following post is by Catherine Hughes, Graduate Student in Musicology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For my independent research as one of the 2010 Pruett Fellows from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
Today, as will happen every other Friday for the next several months, additional batches of photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection have been uploaded to Flickr . This week’s set is particularly varied, with classic portraits of Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Tommy Dorsey, Doris Day, Nat “King” Cole, and Perry Como. In addition to these portraits are …
Posted in: African American History, Birthdays, Jazz, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following blog post is by Mark Zelesky, recent graduate of the School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University. During our internship, my colleagues and I in the Junior Fellows internship discovered several items that highlight the diversity of materials collected by the Library of Congress. For ten weeks, we processed materials from …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following blog post was written by Daniel Walshaw, Music Division. Wild, passionate, perspiring, and, above all, human – words not typically associated with a man clad in a tuxedo performing great works of the classical repertoire. However, it is nearly impossible to describe the extroverted music-making of Leonard Bernstein without using at least one of …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
My colleague on the Library of Congress blog just waxed eloquent on the storied history of the Coolidge Auditorium. I’ve seen some great shows on that hallowed stage; although I’ve gravitated to the jazz shows, like Cecil Taylor and James Carter, The Mingus Big Band and John Zorn’s Masada, I’ve also spent memorable evenings there …
Posted in: Concerts and Events
Posted by: Pat Padua
Pianist, bandleader, composer, William “Count” Basie was born on this day in 1904. Some of the greatest names in jazz passed through his band, from tenor legend Lester Young to singers like Bille Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, and Joe Williams, just to name three. Basie’s career spanned fifty years and did not shy from whatever music happened …
Posted in: African American History, Birthdays, Composers, Jazz, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Ryan Ebright, Graduate Musicology Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As one of the three Pruett Fellows from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working in the Music Division this summer (more information about our work for the Library can be found in a previous post …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The Mid-Atlantic United States has been hit with a series of furious rainstorms this summer, and this gray day in Washington is no exception. We hope that instead of walking between raindrops and dodging cupcake-sized hail, you, gentle reader, choose to stay inside, cuddle up by the Steinway and sing a few songs – just …
Posted in: Composers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
This post is excerpted from an article written by James Wolf, Digital Conversion Specialist, Music Division. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (named after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) was born in Croydon, England on August 15, 1875. Coleridge-Taylor studied with Charles Villiers Stanford, and at the suggestion of Edward Elgar, was commissioned to write a piece for a …
Posted in: African American History, Birthdays, Composers, Special Collections