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Category: New Acquisitions

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Announcing New Acquisition: The Billy Strayhorn Collection

Posted by: Larry Appelbaum

In January of 2017, I traveled to a suburb outside of Phoenix, Arizona to meet Dr. Gregory Morris and family. Morris is the nephew of Billy Strayhorn and Executor of the Billy Strayhorn Estate. Dr. Morris, a retired educator originally from Pittsburgh, kept the collection in safe hands for nearly five decades. The papers, including …

Posted in: African American History, Interviews, Jazz, New Acquisitions, Special Collections

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Discovering a “lost” clarinetist in the Stravinsky/Craft Collection

Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld

This is a guest post by Stephanie Akau, who just completed a 2018 Library of Congress Junior Fellowship. She is working towards a Master of Library and Information Science degree at San José State University and will graduate in May 2019. She is currently a library information specialist at the University of New Mexico. She …

Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musical Instruments, Musicians, New Acquisitions