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Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Music Cataloger Laura Yust. One hundred years ago, on April 14, 1912, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg and sank within just a few hours. Over 3,000 passengers and crew members were on board, and just over half of them died. It was one of the worst …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Daniel Walshaw, Music Division. Scream with uncontrollable, horrific shrieks! Schoenberg is coming to the Coolidge Auditorium! Perhaps that was a tad overly dramatic, but for those who would react in such a manner, and for those who are members of the dodecaphonic cognoscenti, the Music Division lecture this …
Posted in: Composers
Posted by: Cait Miller
Sometimes it’s hard not to get lost in our collections here at the Library, and when the National Jukebox launched about a year ago, I had a whole new resource full of wonderful early 20th-century recordings to explore. After writing a blog post last month on popular music in World War I-era England, I featured …
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. As a cataloger, I don’t generally become intimate with the Library of Congress’s special collections, but sometimes magic happens. Several years ago, I encountered American soprano Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) quite by accident in the course of creating a bibliographic record for her collection. …
Posted in: Special Collections, Women in Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Archivist Janet McKinney. Before becoming an archivist I had the privilege of working as a Junior Fellow contributing records to It’s Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen, our database of excerpts from operas, musicals, revues, and films. As part of the Junior Fellow program, we were able …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The past couple of years we’ve taken time out on Valentine’s Day to highlight love songs and love letters from the Music Division’s collections; however, Valentine’s Day is not exactly everyone’s favorite day of the year. I scoured our digitized sheet music for a selection that might speak to those who are not in love, the …
Posted in: Holidays, Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Head of Acquisitions & Processing Denise Gallo. Today marks the 192nd birthday of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Born into an Ohio family steeped in law and politics, Sherman was at various points in his life a banker, lawyer, and president of a streetcar company. He is remembered above …
Posted in: Birthdays, Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Head of Acquisitions & Processing Denise Gallo. It’s not often that the Music Division dedicates a blog to a literary giant, but today we wish a happy 200th birthday to Charles Dickens, one of the greatest British authors of the nineteenth century. When he penned his novels, myriad …
Posted in: Birthdays, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
I’m sure there are plenty of In the Muse readers who share my love for the hit series Downton Abbey airing on PBS (am I right?). Every week I tune in to the addictive British period drama and a couple of weeks ago I swooned during that wonderful closing scene where Lady Mary sings “If …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week