
Waiting with Jonathan Larson
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Concluding the series on Jonathan Larson, Mark Eden Horowitz takes a look at Larson's day job as a waiter at New York City's Moondance diner.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
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Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Concluding the series on Jonathan Larson, Mark Eden Horowitz takes a look at Larson's day job as a waiter at New York City's Moondance diner.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Continuing the series on Jonathan Larson, Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney examines the composer's exploration of how to turn life into art.
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Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Senior Music Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz discusses his connection with the early work of Jonathan Larson in the second of four blog posts leading up to the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Larson’s "tick, tick…BOOM!" this month.
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Posted by: Cait Miller
The creators of the new film adaptation of tick, tick...BOOM! researched the Jonathan Larson Papers at the Library of Congress in the early stages of their process. Learn more about Jonathan Larson by seeing notes and sketches related to <tick, tick...BOOM!, and a questionnaire Larson created and filled out about life in 1990.
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Posted by: Cait Miller
On Tuesday, November 9th at 4pm EST, the Music Division will present a live webinar called “West Side Story: The Creation of a Classic.” In anticipation of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming remake of West Side Story, join Music Specialists Mark Horowitz and Cait Miller to learn about the creation of the seminal musical as documented in …
Posted in: Musical Theater
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division has published three new digital collections, including the Martorell Collection, music manuscripts from the A.P. Schmidt Collection, and Sheet Music of the Musical Theater.
Posted in: Musical Theater, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Women in Music
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Archivist Jane Cross provides a peek at the show music found in the newly described Warner/Chappell Collection.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Music Division staff lead a virtual tour through selections of colorful graphic aspects of performing arts documentation.
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Musical Theater, Staff, Women in Dance, Women in Music, Women in Theater
Posted by: Cait Miller
Explore the Music Division's most recently published online research guides about Musicals of Stage and Screen, Johannes Brahms, and Clara Schumann.
Posted in: Musical Theater, Research Guides, Women in Music