Category: Jewish American History

Imagining the U.S. Immigrant Musical Theater

November 12, 2019

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

Remembering Mario Davidovsky

August 26, 2019

Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer

On Friday, August 23, 2019, the music community lost a giant – Mario Davidovsky. Mario Davidovsky’s relationship with the Library of Congress Music Division began with three commissioned works at very different stylistic points in his career, and culminated in placing his papers on deposit in 2013.

Posted in: Commissions, Composers, In Memoriam, Jewish American History, New Music