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Archive: February 2011 (11 Posts)

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Gottlieb on Flickr: The Final Touches

Posted by: Cait Miller

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been seven months since we announced the Music Division’s William P. Gottlieb Collection joining the Library of Congress Flickr project. Clearly time flies when you’re having fun checking out Gottlieb’s stellar photographs, and here we are today uploading the last images in the collection. This week’s final batch …

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“Mr. President”: Words That Will Live On

Posted by: Cait Miller

In recognition of President’s Day, I thought I would join NPR’s classical music blog, Deceptive Cadence, in highlighting the newly recorded choral cycle, Mr. President, commissioned in 2004 by Judith Clurman (renowned choral conductor and NPR’s Artist in Residence for the month of February). The cycle consists of 13 choral settings of quotations from various …

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Johanna Beyer: A Composer Forgotten

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post by Music Cataloger Laura Yust, who recently researched composer Johanna Beyer in a seminar about American Modernist composers. Laura is pursuing her M.A. in Musicology at The Catholic University of America. Many people know of the composer Henry Cowell and his innovative compositions, but the name Johanna Magdalena Beyer …

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Remembering the Schumanns’ Love Through Letters

Posted by: Cait Miller

It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air! As this blog has revealed to us over the last 14 months, the Music Division holds a plethora of materials in its collections including manuscript scores, correspondence, business papers, iconography, and yes – even love letters. There’s not a romance in the history of classical composers …

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Get Your Gottlieb Here

Posted by: Pat Padua

Today we release the penultimate set of photographs from the William Gottlieb Collection to Flickr.  This set includes classic portraits of jazz legends like Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron, Ray Nance, and Buddy Rich.  There are also striking images of lesser known figures, like a Kodachrome portrait of singer Dottie Reid.  Her isolation in the frame – …

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Victor Herbert: From Babes in Toyland to Suite of Serenades

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist Ray White. Victor Herbert’s 152nd birthday is this month.  If you recognize his name, you might recall that he composed operettas.  Perhaps Babes in Toyland comes to mind.  Its best-known number, “Toyland, Toyland, little girl and boy land…,” recorded by Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, the …