This post introduces the John Herbert McDowell Papers, which include McDowell’s musical scores for film, modern dance, Off-Off Broadway, and sacred and secular music, as well as programs, scripts, and photographs.
Learn more about conductor and cornet player Leonard B. Smith and his Detroit Concert Band through his concert band and orchestra library, personal music collection, correspondence, clippings, programs, and photographs.
On Rossini's leap day birthday we highlight a Rossini manuscript for a recitative and sketch from his opera Moïse, held in the Music Division's Moldenhauer Archive.
The following is a guest post by Claudia Morales of the Music Division Country Music Icon and Gershwin Prize Recipient Garth Brooks “In Conversation with Librarian of Congress,” March 2 Special Guest Trisha Yearwood Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with GRAMMY Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks and country …
The following is a guest post from Ben West, writer, director, producer, performer, and musical theatre historian. He is currently a curator for the forthcoming Museum of Broadway in Times Square, New York City. He is also currently writing and developing several stage projects including The Show Time! Trilogy, three new documentary musicals about the evolution …
The Jerome Kern Collection features correspondence, including love letters from Jerome Kern to his wife Eva Leale and a letter to her father requesting his blessing to propose.
Did you know that two of the most famous violinists in history - Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler - are birthday twins? On Feb. 2, 2020, it will be Heifetz's 119th birthday and Kreisler's 145th birthday. You can engage with both of their legacies right here in the Music Division.
The following is a guest post by Anne McLean of the Music Division An exciting run of 45+ events is ahead for the spring season of Concerts from the Library of Congress, kicked off by back-to-back performances by two stellar ensembles rarely sighted in the U.S. Superlative performances are expected from our season-openers, concerts that …