Archive: January 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Cait Miller; (Year) 2021; (Month) January

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In Memoriam: Dr. Cyrilla Barr

January 13, 2021

This In Memoriam blog post remembers Dr. Cyrilla Barr (1929-2021), musicologist and Professor Emerita at The Catholic University of America, who researched music patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in the Music Division's collections and published Coolidge's biography.

Posted in: Guest bloggers, In Memoriam

Richard Reti: Founder of Hypermodern Chess

January 4, 2021

Posted by: Cait Miller

The Music Division's Rudolph and Richard Reti Collection includes fives boxes of chess-related material from the papers of Richard Reti, founder of the hypermodern school of chess.

Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections

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