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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Julianne Mangin, a retired Network Specialist from the Library of Congress. The sounds of a summer night can be charming — a light breeze rustling the trees, the chirp of crickets, perhaps the occasional hoot of an owl or croak of a frog. But on one such night …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest blog post from Luke Conklin, doctoral candidate at Case Western Reserve University. As a summer intern in the Music Division, Luke is creating catalog records and inventory lists of rare scores from the Dayton C. Miller Collection. While exploring the collections, staff will inevitably stumble across unexpected, quirky, or unique …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Over three million Jews, mainly from Eastern Europe, flooded into the United States between 1880 and 1920. Like other large immigrant populations, they crowded into cities such as New York, living in often squalid conditions as they tried …
Posted in: Jewish American History, Sheet Music
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Here’s a new blog by our colleague Jason Steinhauer about Elia Andrea Corazza’s research in the papers of Serge Diaghilev at the Library of Congress. This blog commemorates European Month of Culture, and is cross-posted from Insights, a blog about scholarly work at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Elia Andrea …
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
This May, the Library of Congress is celebrating European Month of Culture in conjunction with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States and the diplomatic delegations of many European member states. Our colleagues at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress are featuring the work of scholars from EU …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Musicians, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. Perhaps you saw SNOW showers earlier this month, but there’s no doubt that April can be a rainy time of year. Trust a songwriter to take advantage of the old saw, “April showers bring May flowers.” In 1921, Tin Pan Alley greats Louis Silvers …
Posted in: Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The music world continues to mourn Prince, who died on April 21 at the young age of 57. The diminutive purple icon was a mad musical scientist who took James Brown and Jimi Hendrix into his lab and concocted something uniquely and unforgettably fabulous. Prince fans come from all walks of life, and he entered …
Posted in: In Memoriam, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The world’s greatest artists leave behind them legacies that we happily preserve in the Music Division’s archival collections. Scholars come to our reading room from all over the world to study creative process, be it the origin of a lyric in sketch material, a composer’s annotations in a publisher’s proof, or artistic collaborations via correspondence. …
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The “Martha Graham at the Library” Festival is in full-swing! We were thrilled to see many of you at the events on Thursday and Saturday of last week. As we get closer to the performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company (April 1-8pm; April 2-2pm & 8pm), we have a special treat for you. The …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Dance, Film Music, Interviews, Musicians, Sound recordings, Webcasts, Women in Dance