Archive for the Music Category (65 posts)

InRetrospect: October Blogging Edition

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Here’s a sampling of some of the highlights in the Library’s blogosphere from October.

  • Teaching with the Library of Congress

Voting Rights for Women

The Women’s Suffrage primary source set is featured.

  • In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

Welcome to Our New Front Door: A Revamped Homepage

The Law Library of Congress gets a homepage facelift.

  • Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

Creatures of the Night

Jennifer Harbster takes a look at bats.

  • From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature at the Library of Congress

Summit in the Attic

Poetry Center Director Rob Casper talks about a Poetry Out Loud experience.

  • Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

From Player Portraits to Baseball Cards

Highlighted are photographer Paul Thompson’s 1910 baseball player portraits.

  • The Signal: Digital Preservation

If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It

Writer and blogger Cory Doctorow discussed libraries, ebooks and beyond at an October event.

  • In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog

Five Questions: Xavier Zientarski, Intern

Intern from Montgomery College in Maryland talks about his time working in the Music Division.

First Drafts: “The Star-Spangled Banner”

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(The following is an article from the September-October 2012 issue of the Library’s new magazine, LCM, highlighting “first drafts” of important documents in American history.) O! say, can you see by the dawn’s early light …”   These words are as American as, well, the American flag that inspired them. Francis Scott Key, a young …

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InRetrospect: September Blogging Edition

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Here’s a roundup of some September selections in the Library blogosphere. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog New Dance Collections in the Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) Presentations on Bronislava Nijinska and the Ballet Russes de Serge Diaghilev are now featured in the PAE.  The Signal: Digital Preservation Yes, the Library of Congress Has Video Games: …

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From Russia, with Music

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(The following is a guest article written by my colleague Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library’s staff newsletter, The Gazette, about a two-year project to bring together a Rachmaninoff archive.) The Library of Congress and a Moscow museum recently completed a project that, for the first time, brings together the original music manuscripts of one …

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In Retrospect: August Blogging Edition

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The Library of Congress blogosphere in August was full of great posts from our many expert curators and staff. Here is just a sampling: In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog The Musical Worlds of Victor Hebert On Aug. 16, the Library opened a new exhibition on composer Victor Herbert. The Signal: Digital Preservation Digital Preservation …

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Rock the Vote

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(This is the second in a series of posts featuring presidential campaign items from the Library’s collections. Read the first here.) Politics and music have enjoyed a rather persistent relationship. And it’s never more evident than during campaign season when candidates use music to connect with voters. The tradition can be seen as far back …

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Curator’s Picks: Fab Five

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The collections of the Library of Congress are vast and varied. And, what better way to get to know them but through our many wonderful curators. In this inaugural edition of “Curator’s Picks,” jazz curator Larry Appelbaum discusses a few prized items housed in the Music Division.   A hand-written letter from Leonard Bernstein to …

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Legal Cleanup on Aisle 4!

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If someone set a bowl of cheese curls in front of you and declared it “breakfast,” would you be able to discern it from cereal? Even if you’re the type who likes cold pizza at 7 a.m., odds are you would not be too quick to pour on the milk and dive in with a …

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In Retrospect: June Blogging Edition

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Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on in the Library of Congress blogosphere in June. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog “How to Find Your Snooky Ookums: A Guide to the Irving Berlin Collection” Pat Padua presents a guide to the Irving Berlin Collection. The Signal: Digital Preservation “Every Format on the Face of …

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