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Posted by: Cait Miller
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.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
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.
Posted in: Composers, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
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.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Special Collections
Posted by: David Plylar
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 …
Posted in: Musicians
Posted by: Cait Miller
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 …
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Guest bloggers, Musical Theater, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
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.
Posted in: Composers, Holidays, Musical Theater, Special Collections
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Discusses the numerous Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated manuscript film scores in the Music Division's collections.
Posted in: Composers, Copyright Deposits, Film Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
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.
Posted in: Birthdays, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: David Plylar
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 …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, New Music