The following is a guest post from Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz who will be presenting a High Noon Lecture in the Whittall Pavilion on Tuesday, October 21. The talk is free and open to the public – click on the flyer below for more details. Over the years I’ve done several talks at the …
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Reference Specialist Robin Rausch. The Music Division assembles special displays fairly often for visiting dignitaries. But rarely do we get a chance to bring out the Beech-Nut gum wrapper autographed by composer George Gershwin, or the sales receipts for liquor sold to comedian Danny Kaye …
The following is a guest post from Dr. Carol Hess, Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Hess will be presenting on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 as a part of the Library of Congress/American Musicological Society Lecture Series. See the flyer or follow the link for more information. Scholars and the …