We close out our month of biopics with Barbra Steisand’s tour de force and a silent classic starring Norma Talmadge. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 @ 7:30 p.m. Funny Girl (Columbia, 1968) – Fanny Brice Teenager Fanny Brice started in burlesque than graduated to Flo Ziegfeld’s Follies. Soon she was also a recording star and a radio personality. …
The National Audio-Visual Conservation recently restored and displayed its “Sounds of Earth” disc. This disc, also known as the “Voyager Golden Record,” was presented by NASA to the Library of Congress in 1978.
More movies telling the stories of magnificent musicians! Come and see–and hear–us! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 @ 7:30 p.m. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros, 1942) – George M. Cohan For the first two decades of the 20th Century, no one was bigger on Broadway than George M. Cohan. Performer, songwriter, producer, and theater owner, Cohan did it …
Like the rest of the world, the Library of Congress was very saddened to hear of the passing of Jimmy Buffett this past weekend. His passing was, to us, all the more poignant as Mr. Buffett’s iconic recording, “Margaritaville,” was added the the Library’s National Recording Registry just earlier this year. At the time, Mr. …
