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Posted by: Pat Padua
I for one welcome our new insect leaders with open arms. As we celebrate our 1001st blog post (give or take a few), the Music Division also celebrates a major update to the Federal Theatre Project Collection, which features some of the most requested material in the division. Much of the work for this update …
Posted in: Special Collections, Theater
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Dr. Stephanie Akau and Dr. Rachel McNellis take us on a fun romp through a Steven Stucky opera that takes a hilarious look at music history and theory.
Posted in: Composers, Special Collections
Posted by: David Plylar
It feels great to be able to announce the full return of Concerts from the Library of Congress to the Coolidge Auditorium! We have a wonderful series planned for you this year, to be revealed in two parts. You can read the press release for the fall segment here. While we will continue to have …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Dance, Jazz, Musical Instruments, Musicians, New Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
This is the final installment in a 4-part series about archived performing arts web content in the Library's Coronavirus Web Archive. This final post focuses on web archives that correspond to archival documents in the Music Division's Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection.
Posted in: New Music, Special Collections, Web Archives
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
Exploring hate mail to music greats Henry Mancini, Jascha Heifetz, and Leonard Bernstein
Posted in: Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Melissa Capozio Jones explores Ross Lee Finney's questionnaire to composers during World War II.
Posted in: Composers, Special Collections
Posted by: David Plylar
The Library of Congress Music Division announces the newly updated online resource, Franz Liszt at the Library of Congress, and includes a few examples drawn from the online collection.
Posted in: Composers, Digital Collections, New Acquisitions, Newly Cataloged, Special Collections
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Anita M. Weber provides a brief look at the individual materials and research possibilities discoverable in the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music papers.
Posted in: Musicians, Special Collections
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