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Posted by: Pat Padua
The Music Division is proud to announce a new exhibition in the lobby of the Performing Arts Reading Room. Choreographers have long used the medium of dance to express America’s cultural diversity. Politics and the Dancing Body also explores the way choreographers employ the body as a tool in the fight against injustice. The exhibit …
Posted in: Dance, Exhibitions, Pic of the Week, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Cait Miller
Have you been to the Madison Building yet to see the Library’s “I Love Lucy: An American Legend” exhibit? Local readers, you have exactly one month to plan a trip over here! The exhibit opened last August to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary as well as Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday and will remain open to …
Posted in: Exhibitions
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Specialist Ray White. Sixty years ago, on October 15, 1951, America met Lucy and Ricky Ricardo for the first time. She was a housewife with dreams of a career in show business, and her bandleader husband was as determined to keep her out of show business …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist Ray White. Lucille Ball was born one hundred years ago, on August 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York. Her career took her from very inauspicious beginnings—she was dismissed from drama school as a teenager by instructors who declared that she had no future as an …
Posted in: Birthdays, Exhibitions, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The Music Division is proud to announce Coast to Coast: The Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939, a new on-site exhibition that presents materials from one of our most popular collections. The Federal Theatre Project was established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration, and marked the only time that the United States federal government …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
This post is adapted from notes by Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, Exhibition Curator, Music Division. The exhibition As the Old Sing, So the Young Twitter takes its inspiration from the musical and verbal relationship between birds and flutes. In the often archaic definition of words like “twitter,” “chatter,” “record,” and “warble” are links between birdsong and human music …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Musical Instruments, Special Collections