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Posted by: Stacey Jocoy
May 29 marks the birthday of film and concert music composer Erich Korngold, whose papers are held by the Music Division. Learn more about this important twentieth century composer.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: David Plylar
As our 100th season enters its last few weeks, we are excited to invite you to a new music weekend, with an enticing pair of concerts featuring new and recently composed music. First, on Friday, May 30 at 8 p.m., loadbang will join us for a concert that will feature three Library of Congress commissions. …
Posted in: Commissions, Composers, Concerts and Events, Electronic Music, Instrumentalists, Musicians, New Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division’s newest research guide, James Reese Europe: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress, provides a gateway to accessing historic sheet music, unique literary manuscripts, newspaper archives, recordings, photographs and scholarly research by and related to leading cultural figure James Reese Europe (1881-1919).
Posted in: African American History, American history, Jazz, Research Guides, World War I