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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
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Music Division staff lead a virtual tour through selections of colorful graphic aspects of performing arts documentation.
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Musical Theater, Staff, Women in Dance, Women in Music, Women in Theater
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
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The Library of Congress is home to the Harriet Hoctor Collection, an archive that documents the life and career of "America's premiere ballerina" of the 1920s and 1930s.
Posted in: Dance, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
On December 3, 1947, A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. It was the third full-length play by Tennessee Williams, a 36-year-old writer whose Broadway debut, The Glass Menagerie, was just two years earlier. Streetcar ran for more than two years clocking in at 855 performances, the longest …
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Film Music, Theater
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post by Music Division Specialist Loras John Schissel who has compiled letters and diary entries from Ned Rorem illuminating the composer’s relationship with the Music Division at the Library of Congress. Look not to things that are seen, but to that which is unseen; for things that are seen pass …
Posted in: Composers, In Memoriam
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney. Explore the life and work of accomplished composer Dana Suesse (1909-1987) through a collection of her papers, newly available in the Music Division! Dana Suesse (born Nadine Dana Suesse, 1909-1987) was a child piano prodigy who began performing in vaudeville shows at the …
Posted in: Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Archivist Dr. Stephanie Akau looks at the 2009 "Honor!" festival curated by Jessye Norman.
Posted in: African American History, Musicians, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney. By their very nature, the performing arts depend on the key element of live interaction. But what happens to this art when that component is taken away? In March 2020, concert halls, theaters, and other live performance venues were forced to close their …
Posted in: New Acquisitions, Special Collections, Theater, Women in Music