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Pic of the Week: Deck the Halls with Koussevitzky Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

Head of Acquisitions and Processing Denise Gallo recently pointed out the ingenuity of her staff’s  Christmas tree, festively adorned with photocopied highlights from the Music Division’s deep coffers. The elves who assembled this holiday centerpiece were the music specialists and technicians who work in the archival processing section.  Gallo notes that the tree is also constructed …

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Rest in Peace, Bob Brookmeyer

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post by Acquisitions Specialist and Curator of the Gerry Mulligan Papers, Loras John  Schissel. We were fortunate to have Bob Brookmeyer and members of Gerry Mulligan’s band when the Music Division celebrated the acquisition of the Mulligan Papers with a gala concert in the Coolidge Auditorium in 1999.  I’ve met …

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Pic of the Week: Whistle While You Bike Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The third annual Washington Tweed Ride (the autumnal iteration of the Seersucker Social, which we mentioned in the late spring) is upon us again, in which local hipsterati don their finest and pedal vintage bicycles around our increasingly bike-friendly town. In honor of the dapper velocipedists primed to pedal among the hills of our great …

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Pics of the Week: Old Friends — Simon and Garfunkel at 70 Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

The following is a guest post from Music Division Contract Archivist Janet McKinney. Can you imagine us years from today, Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be seventy… Old friends Seventy years ago today on October 13, 1941, Paul Simon was born. Three weeks later, Arthur Garfunkel was born on November 5th. …

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Pic(s) of the Week: Prohibition Songbooks

Posted by: Cait Miller

  Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary, “Prohibition,” aired this week on PBS and I’m sure that many of you have seen it already (if you haven’t caught it on TV yet, you can watch it online here!). In the film, Burns and Novick explore the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to …