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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: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
On Monday, October 9, visitors to the Library will have the opportunity to see and explore our historic Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building, as part of the Library’s Semi-Annual Main Reading Room Open House. This family-friendly opportunity offers the public an opportunity to get a taste of the Library’s collections, exhibitions, and …
Posted in: Curators, Exhibitions, Film Music, Interviews, Special Collections, Staff
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: 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 John Szwed. Notes on My Visit to the Music Division By John Szwed I’ve visited the Library of Congress a number of times over the years for many different reasons, sometimes for research on a writing project, at others just out of curiosity. …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Jazz, New Acquisitions, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
This is a guest post by Meg Metcalf, women’s, gender and LGBTQ+ studies librarian in the Main Reading Room. It was originally posted on the Library of Congress Blog. The collections of the Library of Congress tell the rich and diverse story of LGBTQ+ life in America and around the world. To share this story, …
Posted in: Composers, Curators, Dance, Digital Collections, Exhibitions, Guest bloggers, LGBTQ+, Musical Theater, Musicians, New Acquisitions, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Theater, Webcasts
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following post originally appeared on the Copyright: Creativity at Work Blog and was written by George Thuronyi of the U.S. Copyright Office. As a teenager during the 1970s, I put on my bell-bottom pants and shiny shirt to groove to the latest disco hits. I was not alone. Disco culture was highly popular and …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Copyright Deposits, Curators, Guest bloggers, Interviews, Musicians, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: David Plylar
In January of 2016 the Library of Congress acquired a holograph manuscript and a copyist’s manuscript (with composer edits and annotations) of Franz Liszt’s Den Cypressen der Villa d’Este. These two manuscripts are earlier incarnations of the first threnody from the final volume of the Années de pèlerinage. The troisième année was published in 1883, with …
Posted in: Composers, Curators, New Acquisitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following is a post from the Library of Congress Blog by Wendi Maloney. The Library of Congress will honor Juan Felipe Herrera, who is concluding his second term as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, with celebratory events on Wednesday, April 26. The events will be streamed live on the Library’s Facebook page and its YouTube …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Exhibitions, Musicians, Special Collections