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Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
November 5th is National Love Your Red Hair Day! The Music Division salutes some of music’s great redheads in our own collections: Vivaldi, Berlioz, Lucille Ball, Beverly Sills, and Ariel the Little Mermaid.
Posted in: Composers, Exhibitions, Musical Theater, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Dance Archivist Libby Smigel and I are excited to present a Saturday Research Orientation for dance on October 20! Whether you’re a seasoned dance researcher, a first-time Library visitor, local dance educator, or student currently studying dance, we can’t wait to meet you and share our resources with you. Please register for this free event …
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Happy 100th birthday to Henryk Szeryng (22 September 1918 - 3 March 1988), a man of international renown as a violinist, pedagogue, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian. The Music Division holds the Henryk Szeryng collection.
Posted in: Birthdays, Jewish American History, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
The Music Division mourns the immense loss of composer and pianist George Walker. He was closely connected to the Music Division for decades.
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, In Memoriam, Musical Instruments, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Friday, July 27 was a special day for me as a new employee at the Library of Congress. I had the wonderful opportunity to represent the Music Division in an outreach initiative, Story Time for Young Readers. Story Time is a program at the Young Readers Center every Friday at 10:30am. Once a month, March …
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
“Yes, yes, let’s talk about the weather.” – Chorus, Act I, No. 9, The Pirates of Penzance, or, the Slave of Duty It has been an unusually rainy summer here in the Mid-Atlantic (and spring, for that matter)! Let’s get through this deluge with a variety of music about rain from the Music Division’s collections. …
Posted in: Jazz, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Greetings, readers! This is my first blog post as a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress. One of the most exciting aspects of joining the staff of the world’s largest music library is to become familiar with the vast scope of resources we hold. After an orientation to the Prints and Photographs Division …
Posted in: Composers, Special Collections, Women in Music