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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from retired cataloger Sharon McKinley. I’ve always enjoyed living vicariously through the Music Division’s special collections. Staffers who work in the Acquisitions and Processing Section become quite intimate with the collections they process. The rest of us are more likely to happen upon wonderful finds by serendipitous means. The …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Reference Specialist Kevin LaVine. As an author, musicologist, conductor, composer, pianist, teacher, theoretician, cultural ambassador and lexicographer, Nicolas Slonimsky’s contributions to music scholarship are both inestimable and enduring. Slonimsky was born in Tsarist Russia in 1894 and pursued his initial musical studies in his native St. …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following is a guest post by musicologist Kendra Preston Leonard of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy. Leonard delivers the Fall 2013 American Musicological Society Lecture at the Library of Congress on September 24, 2013. When American composer Louise Talma died in 1996, the Library of Congress and the executors of her will descended …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Women in Music
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The following is a guest post by Mary Wedgewood, Administrator, U.S. ISMN Agency and Senior Metadata Specialist, Music Division, Library of Congress. The ISMN (International Standard Music Number), which is first cousin to the ISBN and ISSN, is alive and well, and – here in the U.S. ! The Music Division of the Library of …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Stephanie A. Hall, American Folklife Center. World Mosquito Day, August 20th, commemorates the day in 1897 when Dr. Ronald Ross of Great Britain discovered that female mosquitoes transmit malaria. Many items in the Music Division of the Library of Congress and other performing arts materials throughout the Library …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Reference Specialist Robin Rausch. A recent visit to a friend in Indiana took me to the quaint little town of Crawfordsville, Indiana, home of General Lew Wallace, author of the eternal classic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a book that has not been out of …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the final entry in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. How did you become an intern? A former Junior Fellow (the amazing Matthew Morrison!) recommended the program to me, so I applied. The Junior Fellow program was such a fantastic experience. I cannot say enough good …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Staff, Staff Interviews
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Carlos Martinez III, Office of Strategic Initiatives. The centennial of World War I gives the American public the opportunity to learn about and commemorate the sacrifices of our country’s war heroes. The digital collections of the Library of Congress offer a broad range of materials related to World …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections, World War I
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post by Senior Music Specialist Susan Clermont. Anniversaries commemorating the significant birthdays or deaths of famous composers often provide the curatorial staff here at the Library of Congress with great opportunities to take stock, so to speak, of what riches related to a certain figure might be found among our …
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Guest bloggers, Special Collections