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Posted by: Libby Smigel
Senior Music Specialist Loras John Schissel shares the backstory of how composer Carl Engel, then-Chief of the Library of Congress Music Division, participated in the Library of Congress' acquisition of its Gutenberg Bible, one of the Library's most renowned treasures.
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Music Division history, Staff, World War II
Posted by: Libby Smigel
Film music and musical theater buffs can now explore the scores and papers of composer-arranger Marvin Hamlisch in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room. Archivist Janet McKinney describes the range of materials, which include photographs, programs, scrapbooks, staging lists, and even Hamlisch's entertainment trophies.
Posted in: Composers, Conductors, Film Music, Guest bloggers, Musical Theater, New finding aid