It’s the last week of September, and time to list some recent braille music acquisitions. You may call to request hard copies, or you may download them from the BARD site. Sorry, no recordings this week, but we hope there will be some very soon. Cello Brahms, Johannes. Sonata No. 1, Op. 38 (BRM07814) Choral …
Béla Bartók was a seminal 20th-century composer and musicologist. Born in Hungary on March 25, 1881, he lived through World War I and experienced the beginnings of World War II, before immigrating with his second wife to the United States in 1940. He died in New York on September 26, 1945. What makes Bartók‘s works …
Last month, I finally took a long-awaited trip to England. In addition to spending time with my daughter who is a student in Manchester, there were two things that I planned to accomplish during my visit: attending the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and visiting the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Fortunately, …
This week, we will take a look at American composer George Gershwin. George Gershwin was one of the first American composers to use both popular and classical idioms. Years before his most famous compositions were penned, he worked on Tin Pan Alley as a song plugger—that is, someone who was hired to play and promote …
![(ca. 1890) Peasants dancing, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary. , ca. 1890. [Between and Ca. 1900] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002710708/.](https://blogs.loc.gov/nls-music-notes/files/2018/09/Peasants-dancing-detail.png)