About

The Performing Arts Blog will showcase treasures in the Music Division’s collections of Music, Theater and Dance, from works of the great masters to long forgotten slices of our musical heritage. This blog will also highlight events in the Library’s concert series in the Coolidge Auditorium.

Authors

Pat Padua
Larry Appelbaum
Cait Miller

Sources of selected images from site banner

African American band posed on steps to brick building. 1899 or 1900.
Bernstein in his apartment at 32 W. 10th St., New York City, September 11, 1947.
Three masters: the stringed instrument collection in the Library of Congress. 1983.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry, Important letter to the trade on the subject of Victrola infringement, 1909 Nov. 8.