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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
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
A whirlwind tour of five newly described and available dance collections: Cesi Kellinger Collection of Dance Materials, Dance Notation Collection, Jane Dudley Papers, Larry Warren Collection on Anna Sokolow and Lester Horton, and the Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection.
Posted in: Dance, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Senior Music Specialist Mark Eden Horowitz shares the history of this Academy Award winning tune from the 1945 motion picture, "State Fair."
Posted in: Composers, Film Music, Guest bloggers, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The performing arts world has always included many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) members. This blog post introduces a new resource from the Music Division that emphasizes these artists and their accomplishments.
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Jazz, LGBTQ+, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Lyricist and songwriter Harold Rome's first Broadway score, "Pins and Needles," became the longest running musical of the 1930s. With a cast of garment workers and a pro-union message, it was unlike any other musical seen at the time.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Staff