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Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Cataloger retiree Sharon McKinley. Are you already suffering from post-Olympics letdown? Just think about the athletes, who work non-stop towards that goal of standing on the podium, and afterwards may simply become has-beens. Of course, many athletes, past and present, have managed to capitalize on their …
Posted in: Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Music Archivist Janet McKinney. One year ago this month the rush to buy tickets during the members only presale to see the Broadway tour of The Book of Mormon musical here in Washington, DC crashed the Kennedy Center website. The incident reminded me of a topic in which …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following text excerpted from a Library of Congress press release. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), one of the world’s leading performing-rights organizations, through the past 100 years has been protecting the use of its members’ musical works, monitoring broadcast, online and live usage and ensuring that music creators are fairly …
Posted in: Composers, Exhibitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Music Archivist Chris Hartten. Eminent Polish keyboardist Wanda Landowska has been called many things over the past century: visionary, diva, virtuoso, Mamusia. Her story is extraordinary, a self-made legend who mined the rich past of early Western keyboard music to forge her future as an authentic performer and …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections, Women in Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Head of Reader Services, Daniel Boomhower. In May, 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach began, following his appointment as the Cantor at St. Thomas School and Director of Music in Leipzig, a period of creative activity of staggering productivity. In fulfillment of his responsibility for providing sacred music for the …
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