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Transfigured Desk: Encounters with Early Schoenberg

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from David H. Plylar, Producer in the Concert Office. For those who love music and the people who create it, it would be difficult to match some of the perks of working at the Library of Congress. Perhaps the most rewarding, artistically and intellectually, is having the opportunity to …

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A Composer’s Eclectic Personality Reaches out to the World: Nico Muhly’s Library of Congress Commission, “Compare Notes”

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Nicholas A. Brown, Music Specialist in the Music Division’s Concert Office. American composer Nico Muhly’s (b. 1981) latest work Compare Notes receives its world premiere in the Library’s historic Coolidge Auditorium on Friday, October 12 at 8:00pm.  Written for violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, this intriguing …

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Gershwin Prize 2012: Bacharach and David

Posted by: Cait Miller

Tonight President Obama will award the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and last night the Library of Congress hosted a special invitation-only tribute concert to Bacharach and David in the Library’s historic Coolidge Auditorium. I was lucky enough to get a seat …