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Full body color photograph portrait of Rudolph Barshai standing on steps in a concert hall, wearing a tuxedo and holding his conducting baton with both hands while gazing out to the right.

Rudolf Barshai Papers Acquired by the Music Division

Posted by: Cait Miller

Image of Leslie Odom Jr. posed in a dark turtleneck

This Week at Library: From Broadway to Leipzig

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Military officers posed for unit photo in front of a building and American flag.

General Pershing’s Musicians: Will Vodery, the U.S. Army Bandmaster School, and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Marvin Hamlisch, in conductor's formal attire and holding his baton, circa 1979.

Nobody Does It Better than Marvin Hamlisch

Posted by: Libby Smigel

Latin text in black and white and manuscript notated music.

Last Rites and Matins of the Dead

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge standing with Erick Hawkins to her left and Martha Graham to her right. The dancers wear their costumes from "Appalachian Spring."

Happy 160th Birthday, Mrs. Coolidge!

Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres

“The Sun of Latin Music” – Eddie Palmieri at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Claudia Morales

Photo of Quatuor Diotima

Ascending the Library’s Beautiful Mountains of String Quartets

Posted by: David Plylar

Members of the 20th anniversary national tour cast of RENT lean over a table display of material from the Jonathan Larson Papers. Five cast members look engaged with the material, and one woman points to a piece of paper on the table.

Annegret Fauser and Tim Carter Fellowship at the Library of Congress Music Division

Posted by: Cait Miller