A Strange Find, The Perfect Day, and You!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
An in-depth look at one of the programs found in the recently processed Brill family collection.
Posted in: New Acquisitions, Theater
Archive: 2021 (36 Posts)
Five Questions: Melissa Young and the Many, Many Awards of Roger L. Stevens
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
In this week’s post we are revisiting an older “In the Muse” series, Five Questions. In the past, we used this interview format as a way to get to know Music Division interns and contract archivists, but in today’s five questions, Processing Technician Melissa Young talks about theatrical producer and Kennedy Center founding chairman Roger …
Posted in: Staff Interviews, Theater
Internship Reflection: Photography Collection Captures Innovation in the Performing Arts
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Intern Jade Vaughn looks at the work of photographer Peter Angelo Simon and the directors, composers, and choreographers he captured.
Waiting with Jonathan Larson
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Concluding the series on Jonathan Larson, Mark Eden Horowitz takes a look at Larson's day job as a waiter at New York City's Moondance diner.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Turning a Life Into Art: The Evolution of tick, tick…BOOM!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Continuing the series on Jonathan Larson, Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney examines the composer's exploration of how to turn life into art.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Jonathan Larson in His Own Words
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Senior Music Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz discusses his connection with the early work of Jonathan Larson in the second of four blog posts leading up to the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Larson’s "tick, tick…BOOM!" this month.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
10 Hairy Legs Dance in a Company’s Digital Archive
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Peek at 10 Hairy Legs Dance Company Archive, the Music Division's first entirely born-digital collection, with this post from Archivist Dr. Stephanie Akau.
Posted in: Dance
This Day in History: a Relief Concert for the Midwest Fires of 1871
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Anita M. Weber reintroduces the Samuel P. Warren Collection and takes a look back at a benefit concert held on this day in 1871.
Posted in: Special Collections
Celebrating 150 Years of Zemlinsky!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Dr. Rachel McNellis commemorates the 150th birthday of composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky with a whirlwind tour through his life and work.
Posted in: Composers, Special Collections