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Posted by: Pat Padua
Like the tale of the blind men and the elephant, an artifact of popular culture as vivid as today’s featured sheet music at right has a variety of angles worth pursuing. What of the career of Austrian composer Heinrich Reinhardt, or lyricist Robert Bache Smith? And what of that fantastic cover art, which features besotted …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections, Theater
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the third in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. Mark Baker (Junior Fellow Summer Intern, 2007) has been very busy in school, both as an Adjunct Professor and a grad student at the University of Maryland University College. He completed his MBA degree in 2010 and his …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Daniel Walshaw, Music Division. Danny Kaye’s contributions to American culture and entertainment are unmatched. He mastered nearly every aspect of show business – stage, film, television, radio, recordings, and even orchestral conducting. Despite his demanding performance schedule, he was also one of the most generous celebrity humanitarians donating …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Film Music, Guest bloggers, Women in Music
Posted by: Pat Padua
Today is a date on which we celebrate not only the mathematical constant used to determine circular measurements, but the delicious treat whose circular shape comforts us from the cooling windowsill to our growling stomach. Yet all is not rosy in the august lore of piedom. Hubbard T. Smith’s “The little pie” tells the antiquated …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from retired Senior Music cataloger Sharon McKinley. The Academy Awards are over, and I was definitely rooting for Lincoln. Daniel Day-Lewis in particular was wonderful, but then, we’re Lincoln partisans here at the Library, which is the home of the Lincoln papers. Staffers were consulted during production of the …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Special Collections