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Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
Check out the latest uploads of audio and braille music to the NLS Music page on BARD.
Posted in: Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Guitar instruction, Instrumental Music, Music Composition, Music Education, Music Instruction, NLS Music Section, Popular Music, Uncategorized, Vocal music
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
I’m always reminding myself how fortunate I am to live in an area that offers not only great classical music, theater and dance performances, but many popular music performers make a stop, especially during the summer. Being a child of the sixties, rock and roll concerts usually meant performances in smoky nightclubs (missed out on …
Posted in: American Composers, Audio, Blues, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille Music, Guitar instruction, Instrumental Music, Music Instruction, Performing music, Piano, Piano Music, Popular Music, Popular Music Lead Sheets, Rhythm & Blues (R&B), Rock n' Roll, saxophone, Uncategorized
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
You know it’s coming, sooner or later this year must end. It has certainly been an interesting series of events, to say the least, and I will leave it there. Whatever your plans are for New Year’s Eve, the NLS Music Section wants everyone to be safe and take some time for reflection. And if …
Posted in: Audio, Braille Music, Instrumental Music, Jazz, NLS Music Section, Piano, Popular Music, Rock n' Roll
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
My attention recently was called to a very historic event; on June 2, 1896, Guglielmo Marconi applied to patent the radio. When we think of Marconi as the inventor of the radio, it is easily overshadowed by contemporary inventors of computers, 3-D printing, and copy machines. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to have …
Posted in: Audio, Catalogs, Folk Music, Instrumental Music, Interviews, Jazz, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section, Rock n' Roll
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
I have always considered the NLS Music Section’s home base in Washington D.C. as a very fine perk of my job. There are numerous opportunities for concerts with great venues such as Kennedy Center, the Strathmore, our own home at the Library of Congress and (according to me) the jewel in the crown of museums, …
Posted in: Band, Braille, Braille Music, Braille Music Transcribers, Instrumental Music, Large Print Music, Music Education, Music Instruction, NLS Music Section, Outreach, Performing music, Piano
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
While most people associate Louis Braille with the system of reading and writing for the blind, many are not aware he was also an accomplished organist and musician. There is good evidence he created the Braille code for music first and language second. But whichever came first, the literary or the music code, we’re just grateful …
Posted in: Blind Musicians, Braille, Braille Music, Instrumental Music, Jazz, NLS Concerts, NLS Music Section, Performing music, Piano, Uncategorized