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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Nicholas A. Brown, Music Specialist, Concert Office. Here in the Concert Office we are all very excited for the upcoming launch of our LIBRARY LATE series on Friday, November 30! Anything but your average concert experience, LIBRARY LATE offers you an enjoyable evening out at the Atlas Performing …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Musicians
Posted by: Pat Padua
Join us Saturday, October 6, 2012 for the Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir. The choir, based in a 14th century monastery in the heart of Moscow, continues the rich tradition of church chants — the uniquely sonorous singing for which Russia has always been famous. In addition to the daily Divine Services, the choir has taken …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Musicians
Posted by: Pat Padua
Google’s new search tool had would-be researchers wracking their brains yesterday. Based on the “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, which In the Muse wrote about in July, if you enter the words “Bacon number” and an actor’s name in the Google search box, you get the number of degrees removed that person is from …
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
It wasn’t your typical mid-day lecture on Capitol Hill. This week the Copyright Office sponsored a special presentation in the Coolidge Auditorium, “Copyright and the American Songwriter.” Copyright regulations have helped many songwriters make a living by their craft, and one songwriter in particular graced the Coolidge stage to humbly represent his fellow songwriters: ASCAP …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Senior Cataloger Sharon McKinley. This is already last week’s news, but we wanted to note the passing of a singer who had a profound and lasting effect on legions of performers and a horde of admirers through a large part of the 20th century and beyond. How does …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musicians
Posted by: Pat Padua
The 2011 National Recording Registry selections were announced this morning, and as always the titles are great fodder for an eclectic, historically important, culturally influential mix-tape. Among the titles is one of my very favorite albums, Love’s Forever Changes, a relic of 1967 whose lush string arrangements, rich melodies, and alternately pastoral and visionary lyrics make …
Posted in: Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Stephen Winick, American Folklife Center. Staff members from the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center (AFC) have identified a one-minute-long segment of silent color footage as film of David “Honeyboy” Edwards, shot by Alan Lomax for the Music Division in 1942. Although the meeting between Edwards and Lomax …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musicians, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Pat Padua
People sometimes ask if Library of Congress programs are available to view online. Copyright and other issues prevent us from making everything available online, but highlights from the Music Division’s great concert and lecture season are available on the Library’s webcasts page, including the lecture “Bernstein meets Broadway,” the late Jack Gottlieb’s revealing talk “Working …
Posted in: Concerts and Events, Musicians, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Cait Miller
Sometimes it’s hard not to get lost in our collections here at the Library, and when the National Jukebox launched about a year ago, I had a whole new resource full of wonderful early 20th-century recordings to explore. After writing a blog post last month on popular music in World War I-era England, I featured …