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Posted by: David Plylar
Free Download: Sheet music of Debussy’s Les parfums de la nuit as transcribed for the piano by Charles Griffes On Saturday, November 4, 2017, Solungga Liu performed a recital in the Coolidge Auditorium that featured the music of Charles Griffes, Amy Beach and César Franck. Included on the program was a transcription by Griffes of …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Newly Cataloged
Posted by: Cait Miller
Nearly one year ago, the Music Division happily welcomed Tony Award-winning composer and orchestrator Jason Robert Brown to the Library of Congress. He came to perform and talk about his own music with special guest Shoshana Bean on December 9, 2016 as a part of the Library’s concert series, but we were also fortunate to …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Interviews, Musical Theater, Musicians, Webcasts
Posted by: Cait Miller
The 2018 Grammy nominations were announced this morning, and among the lineup you can find a work co-commissioned by the Library of Congress! Pulitzer Prize winner and American composer Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto was co-commissioned by the Library of Congress (with support from the family of Cameron and Jane Baird, and John J. Medveckis), the …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Musical Instruments, Women in Music
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by retired cataloger Sharon McKinley The Library of Congress is home to millions of pieces of sheet music, in large part copyright deposits. Self-selecting as copyright deposits are, much of this music is rather pedestrian in quality, and what catches the researcher’s attention is some other aspect of the …
Posted in: Composers, Sheet Music
Posted by: David Plylar
The digital version of the 2017-18 Concerts from the Library of Congress season brochure is now available! Download it here.
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Film Music, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
Last week we featured a guest post from summer Fellow Rachel McNellis who shared discoveries from her work with the Daniel Nagrin Collection. This week she links an unidentified score titled “Vanity” to one of Nagrin’s seminal dance works, Indeterminate Figure. Daniel Nagrin, a renowned modern dancer with a humanist worldview, included this brief …
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
This post is by Emily Hauck, a summer intern in the Library’s Communications Office. A version of this post was first published in the Library of Congress Gazette and it also appeared on the Library of Congress Blog. No matter how much you think you know about a topic, there is always more to discover. I …
Posted in: Composers, Curators, Musical Theater, Musicians, New Acquisitions, Special Collections, Theater
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following is a guest blog by 2016-2017 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar Ingrid Monson. “Finding Afro-Kola at the Library of Congress” Ingrid Monson, Harvard University 2016-2017 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar For scholars and researchers interested in jazz, a visit to the Music Division of the Library of Congress can be a rewarding improvisation …
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Jazz, Musicians, New Acquisitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following is a guest blog by 2016-2017 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar Ingrid Monson. “Courage and Improvisation: The Max Roach Papers” Ingrid Monson, Harvard University 2016-2017 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar As I sat going through box after box of the Max Roach Papers in the Music Division at the Library of Congress, the …
Posted in: African American History, Composers, Guest bloggers, Jazz, Musicians, New Acquisitions, Sheet Music, Special Collections