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Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Emily Baumgart helps us celebrate Pride Month with a few LGBTQ+ highlights from our performing arts collections and the announcment of a forthcoming LGBTQ research guide from the Music Division.
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Guest bloggers, LGBTQ+, Musicians, Research Guides, Staff, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Archives Processing Technician Dr. Rachel McNellis. In his essay, “The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music,” published in 1931, Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) describes the beauty of folk music and its significance to classical composers: “The right type of peasant music is most varied and perfect …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections, Staff, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The team processing the Jessye Norman papers take a first hand look at her "quick dessert cake" recipe.
Posted in: African American History, Food, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections, Staff, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Processing Technician Pam Murrell shines light on the surprisingly ordinary life of a man who would be deemed one of the extraordinary classical composers of syncopated rhythm.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Staff
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Archives Processing Technician Emily Baumgart describes some timely cicada-centric compositions by avant-garde composer, writer, poet, and inventor Lucia Dlugoszewski.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Staff, Women in Music
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The following is a guest post by Music Division Archivist Dr. Stephanie Akau. Earlier this year Processing Technician Anthony Edwards and I had the privilege of processing the records of the Arsis Press. This music publishing company was founded in 1974 and run solely by intrepid school teacher, social activist, and composer Clara Lyle Boone …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Staff, Women in Music
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Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week, Emily Baumgart takes a look at several notable educators in the Music Division's special collections.
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Guest bloggers, Staff, Theater, Women in Dance, Women in Music, Women in Theater
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
How a CBS radio broadcaster, Oliver Daniel, used his national platform to promote both notable and neophyte musicians.
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
A whirlwind tour of five newly described and available dance collections: Cesi Kellinger Collection of Dance Materials, Dance Notation Collection, Jane Dudley Papers, Larry Warren Collection on Anna Sokolow and Lester Horton, and the Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection.
Posted in: Dance, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Women in Dance