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Posted by: Paul Sommerfeld
An update on reporting the Music Division's holograph manuscripts to RISM, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Newly Cataloged
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
January 15, 2021 is the 216th birthday of Louise Angélique Bertin. She was a French composer, poet, librettist, and painter. She was the only composer to work directly with Victor Hugo, the first French composer to set Goethe’s Faust as an opera, and the first woman of the 19th century to have an opera performed at the Opéra de Paris. The Music Division has wonderful resources about Louise Angélique Bertin.
Posted in: Birthdays, Composers, Women in Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
This In Memoriam blog post remembers Dr. Cyrilla Barr (1929-2021), musicologist and Professor Emerita at The Catholic University of America, who researched music patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in the Music Division's collections and published Coolidge's biography.
Posted in: Guest bloggers, In Memoriam
Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon
Lyricist and songwriter Harold Rome's first Broadway score, "Pins and Needles," became the longest running musical of the 1930s. With a cast of garment workers and a pro-union message, it was unlike any other musical seen at the time.
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Musical Theater, Special Collections, Staff
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division's Rudolph and Richard Reti Collection includes fives boxes of chess-related material from the papers of Richard Reti, founder of the hypermodern school of chess.
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections