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Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
Announces the completed processing of the Benjamin Garber Papers and Garber's relationship with choreographer Martha Graham.
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, New Acquisitions, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Cait Miller
Andre Kostelanetz was a conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts and concert performances with some of the world's leading orchestras. The newest digital collection from the Library of Congress Music Division, the "Andre Kostelanetz Collection," presents the Kostelanetz sound through a selection of correspondence, photographs, scores, diary entries, sound recordings, and moving image material.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
Gilbert Miller (1884-1969) was one of the most active and successful theatrical producers of the 20th century. The holdings of the Library of Congress include a collection of Gilbert Miller papers, primarily correspondence chronicling many of the highlights of modern theater history.
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Theater
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
This is a guest post by Melinda Gonzalez, a full-time intern working with me through December on an inventory of the Music Division’s primary sources related to Latin American composers. Melinda is here in the Music Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP).
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Latin American History, New Music, Women in Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
On Leopold Mozart's 300th birthday, we explore the musical contributions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father as well as his presence in the Music Division's collections.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Dr. John Koegel, Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Koegel will be presenting the Fall 2019 American Musicological Society/Library of Congress Lecture, “Recovering the History of the U.S. Immigrant Musical Theater at the Library of Congress” tonight (November 12, 2019) at 7pm in the Montpelier …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Jewish American History, Musical Theater, Special Collections
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following post was written by Music Reader Services Librarian Katie Rodda and published on October 24, 2019 on NLS Music Notes, a Library of Congress blog for and about those who want, need or provide the special format music of braille, audio, and large print offered by the NLS Music Section. This week, on Thursday, November …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Guest bloggers, Jazz, Musicians
Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
From his Appalachian Spring ballet score for thirteen instruments (1944), Aaron Copland extracted an orchestral suite in 1945. A third configuration, requested by Eugene Ormandy in 1954, combines elements of both suite and ballet.
Posted in: Commissions, Composers, Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: David Plylar
This is a guest blog by Claudia Morales of the Music Division. The Music Division is ready to hit it with Tank and The Bangas this Friday, October 25, 2019, at 8:00 pm. Included in the 2018 list of Rolling Stones “10 New Artists You Need to Know”and winners of 2017 NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest …
Posted in: Baseball, Concerts and Events, Guest bloggers, Musicians