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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Music Archivist Chris Hartten and Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz. For you musical theater aficionados out there, the Music Division is thrilled to announce that our finding aid for the Arthur Schwartz Papers is now available online here. Schwartz is best remembered as a composer for a series of …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 the Music Division presents an exploration of “Music in the Lincoln White House,” featuring a panel discussion with leading Civil War music scholars and a performance by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band under the baton of Colonel Michael J. Colburn. This event is presented in conjunction with the …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Exhibitions, Interviews, Musicians, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post co-authored by Music Archivist Chris Hartten and Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz. There is a history of women’s singing groups being representative of their eras: the Boswell Sisters in the ‘30s, Dianna Ross and the Supremes in the ‘60s, Destiny’s Child in the ‘90s. But no group seemed to …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, In Memoriam, Jazz, Musicians, Special Collections, Women in Music
Posted by: David Plylar
Friday, February 1, 2013. The following is a guest post provided by Peter Sheppard Skærved, who recently appeared at the Library in events dedicated to its Paganini holdings and collection of Cremonese instruments. I am powerfully aware of the constant dialogue between past and present. Working as a violinist equally involved with the discovery of …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musical Instruments, Musicians, Special Collections, Webcasts
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a reprint of a blog post originally published on April 16, 2012. As of today, Sr. Gregory’s correspondence from the Oscar Hammerstein II Collection is now available online via the Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia. See the added inventory and links to digitized material at the end of the blog post. …
Posted in: Special Collections, Theater, Women in Theater
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from Xavier Zientarski, an intern working on music cataloging, and Senior Music Catalogers Sharon McKinley and Mary Wedgewood. No compact discs. No vinyl records. No equipment to record music, and definitely no way to listen to it online or through an electronic device. The only means to listen to …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Retired Senior Cataloger Sharon McKinley. Everyone loves Inauguration Day! What’s not to like? Flags fly, people cheer, and federal employees in the Washington area get the day off, because no one wants to compete with them for seats on Metro. We in the Music Division are joining in …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Holidays, Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
With the help of Elizabeth Fulford Miller, who provided web metrics, In the Muse looks back at the past year to see our most popular blog posts. 11. 1750: Berlin on the Potomac. A look at Berlin chamber music under Frederick the Great, the subject of a program in our Spring 2012 lecture series. 10. Our …
Posted in: Dance, Film Music, Jazz, Pic of the Week, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Cait Miller
For years now In the Muse has been highlighting digitized sheet music from our collections in our “Sheet Music of the Week” series, sharing with our readers beautiful cover art, quirky titles and lyrics, and musical documentation of America’s cultural history. Because of copyright law, most of the digitized sheet music selections you will find …
Posted in: Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections