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Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Reference Specialist Robin Rausch. A recent visit to a friend in Indiana took me to the quaint little town of Crawfordsville, Indiana, home of General Lew Wallace, author of the eternal classic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a book that has not been out of …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Did you know that you can download audio and video content of select Concerts from the Library of Congress events and performances via iTunes U? Back in 2009 the Library of Congress launched its iTunes U channel, which allows users to subscribe (for free!) to content from various programs in podcast formats. Our award-winning programming …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Interviews, Musicians, Podcasts, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following blog post was adapted from an essay by Senior Music Specialist Ray White and Digital Conversion Specialist James Wolf. This week the Music Division launches a new online collection of Yiddish American Sheet Music. The Library’s holdings of Yiddish American popular songs include the Irene Heskes Collection of Yiddish American sheet music as well …
Posted in: Jewish American History, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Summer is a vibrant time of year for the arts. Performance offerings shift from more-traditional settings in the regular season (Autumn-Spring) to an array of different urban, suburban and rural venues. Music festivals, summer stock theater and dance festivals are back in session, as training grounds for the next generation of leading performers and second …
Posted in: Composers, Concerts and Events, Curators, Musicians, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the final entry in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. How did you become an intern? A former Junior Fellow (the amazing Matthew Morrison!) recommended the program to me, so I applied. The Junior Fellow program was such a fantastic experience. I cannot say enough good …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Staff, Staff Interviews
Posted by: Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
This past Sunday, July 7, 2013 marked the 153rd birthday of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). The weekend was filled with performances of Mahler’s greatest works around the world, including his third symphony at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony (Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor) and fourth symphony at the Castleton Festival (Lorin Maazel, conductor) …
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Musicians, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following post is by Carlos Martinez III, Office of Strategic Initiatives. In a recent blog post, I discussed a World War I Sheet Music digitization project and some of my contributions to it. I had the pleasure of working alongside several team members and Paul Fraunfelter, Digital Conversion Specialist from the Music Division. Over …
Posted in: Interviews, Sheet Music, Special Collections, Staff, Staff Interviews