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Archive: May 2018 (1 Post)

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Something’s Coming, Something Good!

Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins

This is a very special year for Broadway and classical music fans and those of us at the Library of Congress;  we’re marking the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. For a man who was born in 1918, his music still has fans snapping their fingers (x…x…x is a symbol in print music notation in West …