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Posted by: Pat Padua
It’s been an especially busy week here in the Music Division, and In the Muse will soon bring you exclusive pictures of last night’s all-star ASCAP concert in the Coolidge Auditorium. But it has come to our attention that Google is paying homage to Martha Graham on her birthday with an animation of the iconic dancer. …
Posted in: Dance, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Mark Eden Horowitz, Senior Music Specialist, and curator for the Larson Collection. On Monday, May 9th at noon in the Whittall Pavilion, I will be discussing the Larson Collection and showing some of the rare and surprising treasures it holds. The special collections of the Music Division …
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater, Staff
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Music Archivist Chris Hartten. Morton Gould delighted American audiences for over seventy years with his impressive array of original symphonic compositions and arrangements. Born in New York in 1913, Gould quickly established himself as a tour de force on the radio and was recognized as one of the …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
This week’s featured picture is from the Herta Moselsio Collection, a remarkable body of work that can be found in our Martha Graham presentation. In 1939, film maker Moselsio worked with Martha Graham to film her work Lamentation, which premiered in New York in 1930. This iconic work of Graham places the solo dancer on …
Posted in: Dance, Pic of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
Next week, the Music Division’s popular jazz film series returns to the Mary Pickford Theater. Senior Reference Specialist and In the Muse blogger Larry Appelbaum curated the series and provided program notes. Monday evenings at 7:00 pm – Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building. No tickets or reservations needed. Limited seating begins at 6:30pm. …
Posted in: Film Music, Jazz
Posted by: Pat Padua
Continuing Wednesday’s puppy theme and expanding our range of species is this week’s featured sheet music, from the composer of last week’s “Baby Elephant Waltz.” The August 1921 Etude, a serial issued by music publisher Theodore Presser, tells us that Pierre Latour was the nom de plume of one E. Mack, who presumably thought the …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
A frenzied woodland gathering beneath a full moon; no, it’s not the thrilling conclusion to the Nicolas Cage vehicle Drive Angry 3-D but the subject of the unusual cover art (best viewed large) of this week’s featured sheet music. My research behind the pages has frequently taken me places I did not expect to virtually …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The Music Division is proud to announce Coast to Coast: The Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939, a new on-site exhibition that presents materials from one of our most popular collections. The Federal Theatre Project was established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration, and marked the only time that the United States federal government …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
In the Muse has been under the weather lately, but has been dragged out of sick bay to bring sheet music to a readership clamoring for songs to sing. This week’s humorous tale of childhood disease is brought to you by a husband and wife songwriting team that is little known today, Irene Franklin and …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections