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Posted by: Pat Padua
For those unable to attend Friday night’s program in the film series Time Capsule: 1966, here’s a guest post by Brian Taves of the Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Divsion at the Library of Congress. I want to thank Pat Padua for selecting tonight’s program and asking if I would introduce it. He knows …
Posted in: Film Music, Guest bloggers
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The Library of Congress, including the Performing Arts Reading Room, will close at 12:00pm on Friday, January 22, 2016 due to inclement weather. We will remain closed through Saturday, January 23, 2016. Our digital resources are available for use throughout the closures. Please watch our facebook page for an operating status update for Monday, January …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Pic of the Week, Sheet Music, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. I am such a sucker for a beautiful sheet music cover. I’ve been attracted by pretty women, handsome men, cute kittens, and gorgeous landscapes. So this decorative cover certainly caught my eye while I was perusing some winter tunes. “Winter Polka, or, Recollections of …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music of the Week
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Tonight at 9:00pm (ET) you can catch the national PBS broadcast of Willie Nelson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize! Check your local listings for additional broadcast times. The show features performances by Nelson, as well as Edie Brickell, Leon Bridges, Rosanne Cash, Ana Gabriel, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss, Raul Malo of The Mavericks, Neil …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Musical Instruments, Musicians, Sheet Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Ted Gordon, a PhD student in Music History and Theory at the University of Chicago. Last month Ted visited to study our Buchla System. It was the first time many of the staff had seen the Buchla brought out for a researcher, so we knew photographs and a …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musical Instruments, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Heidi Kim, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kim was a 2015 Florence Tan Moeson Fellow in the Asian Division where she studied the Jade Snow Wong Collection. While researching, Kim came across interesting connections to the renowned …
Posted in: Asian American History, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections