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Archive: April 2018 (2 Posts)

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Celebrating Bessie Smith: “Empress of the Blues”

Posted by: Cait Miller

It’s International Jazz Day! When our friends from the Prints & Photographs Division let us know that they’d be featuring favorite jazz-related items today on their blog, Picture This, I couldn’t let the day go by without a related post. Of course, the Music Division is home to outstanding jazz collections that document the life …

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Expanded Leonard Bernstein Online Collection

Posted by: Cait Miller

In celebration of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein’s centennial, the Library of Congress is happy to announce that we have greatly expanded our Bernstein Online Collection, now giving access to 3,741 items and over 42,000 pages of archival material. Through the online collection researchers can find: Music – See sketches for Candide, Chichester Psalms, Kaddish, Mass, On …