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Pic of the Week: Proud as a Peacock Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following post is by Music Cataloging intern Ruth Bright. While cataloging as an intern in the Music Division, I ran across this beautifully illustrated lithograph title page for a song tucked away inside an anonymous volume, one of approximately 290 volumes found at LC classification number M1.A15.  This volume of miscellaneous melodies contains many …

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Pic of the Week: Calling all Choreographers Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post by Dance Heritage Coalition Fellow Nicole Topich. Processing the Marge Champion Collection in the Music Division has been one of the most exciting archives jobs I have held.  The collection is not very large, but almost every item I found was interesting or historically significant.  Because the collection has …

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Pic of the Week: Critical Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

When I prepared the  Martha Graham Collection for digitization some years ago, I looked at hundreds of clippings that the legendary choreography kept in her detailed scrapbooks. Something struck me about the dance reviews. Regular columns by certain music critics were accompanied by a thumbnail photo of the author. In the scrapbook pages of the Graham …

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Pic of the Week: “That’s my Daddy!” Edition

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 …

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(Motion) Pic of the Week: Country Music Edition

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 …

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Pic of the Week: Carolina Chocolate Drops Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post by Stephen Winick, Writer and Editor, American Folklife Center. On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Library’s Coolidge auditorium hosted a relaxed and thoroughly enjoyable concert by Grammy-Award-winning old-time folk music group The Carolina Chocolate Drops.  The two-hour concert featured old-fashioned music on guitar, banjo, steel-resonator mandolin, and fiddle, with …

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Pic of the Week: Name that Composer Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

One of the most memorable images from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation of  the Stephen King novel The Shining is a shot of a framed group photo from the heyday of the fictional Overlook Hotel. It has become an iconic image, and its resonance in the film can lend almost any vintage group photo an air of …

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Pic of the Week: Contemplative Caruso Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

Iconic tenor Enrico Caruso was born on February 25, 1873 in Naples, Italy.   Over a career spanning 25 years, he performed at the world’s great opera houses, including nearly 900 appearances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone.  In this age of the mp3 we take recorded music for granted, but Caruso was one of …