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Archive: June 2021 (4 Posts)

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New BARD additions: June 2021

Posted by: Katie Rodda

Today’s blog post rounds up all the new digital acquisitions and digitized items added to BARD in June 2021 by the NLS Music Section.

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Song Stories: Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”

Posted by: Brian McCurdy

For this installment of "Song Stories", we are going to explore how James Agee's prose and Samuel Barber's music came together for "Knoxville: Summer of 1915."

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American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: A – Arkansas Traveler

Posted by: Juliette Appold

Welcome to our new blog-series, in which we will feature American Music treasures available in the NLS Music Collection, starting with letter A and going through the alphabet. This blog will feature the "Arkansas Traveler" and its stories. We hope you enjoy our snapshots into American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection.