Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger: Creating Music and Family
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Archivist Anita M. Weber talks about the latest addition to the Library's Seeger Family Collection.
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, Women in Music
Category: Women in Music
Jeanine Tesori and Tony Awards
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Mark Eden Horowitz congratulates composer Jeanine Tesori on her latest Tony Award win, and lists other Tony Award winners in the Music Division's collections.
Posted in: Composers, Musical Theater, Women in Music
Mary Cardwell Dawson: Upcoming Lecture at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Cait Miller
On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 7pm in the James Madison Building’s Montpelier Room, Dr. Karen Bryan, Dean of the Arts at Pima Community College, is presenting a lecture: “Self-Determination on the Operatic Stage: Mary Cardwell Dawson and African American performance in Washington, DC and New York City.” Music educator, choir director, opera director, and administrator Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962) founded the National Negro Opera Company, the country's first African-American opera company, in 1941. The Library of Congress is home to the National Negro Opera Company Collection, which documents the Company's productions, operations, fundraising efforts, as well as as Dawson's career and impact.
Posted in: African American History, Special Collections, Women in Music
You Oughta Be in Pictures, Dana Suesse!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney. Explore the life and work of accomplished composer Dana Suesse (1909-1987) through a collection of her papers, newly available in the Music Division! Dana Suesse (born Nadine Dana Suesse, 1909-1987) was a child piano prodigy who began performing in vaudeville shows at the …
Posted in: Women in Music
Bartlett, Robertson, and the Problem of Piano Duets
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Emily Baumgart explores the work of piano duo Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson found their recently processed papers.
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, Women in Music
Langston Hughes, Laura Karpman, and Jessye Norman Ask Your Mama!
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Archivist Dr. Stephanie Akau looks at the 2009 "Honor!" festival curated by Jessye Norman.
Posted in: African American History, Musicians, Women in Music
Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
The following is a guest post from Music Division Archivist Janet McKinney. By their very nature, the performing arts depend on the key element of live interaction. But what happens to this art when that component is taken away? In March 2020, concert halls, theaters, and other live performance venues were forced to close their …
Posted in: New Acquisitions, Special Collections, Theater, Women in Music
Marian Anderson’s #LincolnMemorialMoment
Posted by: Cait Miller
As we recognize the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, the Music Division highlights Marian Anderson's iconic 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial by sharing a program and related telegram from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection.
Posted in: African American History, Women in Music
Alice Eversman, Elena de Sayn, and the Washington, D.C. music scene
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Emily Baumgart announces the forthcoming finding aid on the papers of Alice Eversman and Elena de Sayn, two Washington, D.C. area musicians connected to an international network of women musicians.
Posted in: Composers, Musicians, Women in Music