How I Spent My Summer Fellowship

The following is a guest post by Christopher M. Reali, Graduate Musicology Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This past summer I, along with two fellow colleagues from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was awarded the James W. Pruett Summer Research Fellowships in Music at the Library of Congress. During the months of June and …

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Come for the Stradivarius, Stay for the Buchla 100 Modular Synthesizer

Earlier this week the Library announced this year’s inductees into the National Recording Registry. Among the inductees is Morton Subotnick’s “Silver Apples of the Moon,” a piece composed on one of the unlikely treasures of the Music Division’s instrument collection. The following is a guest post by Steve Antosca,  a composer living and working in …

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