The following is a guest blog by Music Reference Specialist Morgan Davis. Actress, comedian, author and media personality Whoopi Goldberg visited the Library of Congress on Friday, May 10 to di...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/05/whoopi-goldbergs-visit-to-the-library/
The Concerts from the Library of Congress series embarks on a two-day immersion into the horn trio repertoire this coming weekend. Per usual, we’re pulling out all the stops, with the help of t...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/05/horn-trios-for-spring-days/
This season, Concerts from the Library of Congress has showcased the Library’s jazz collections for the esteemed performing artists who have appeared on the series. We are dedicated to fosterin...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/celebrating-international-jazz-day/
The following is a guest post by Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, Curator of Musical Instruments, and Dr. Frederic Kreisler. Over the past few years Dr. Frederic Kreisler, grandson of the cellist Hugo Kr...
Editor, publisher, and contributor Lee Mergner shares the history of JazzTimes, which went from a marketing circular to an award-winning music magazine. The collection, which arrived in late Marc...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/introduction-to-the-lee-mergner-jazz-photography-collection/
The Music Division has a full crop of music to complement the cherry blossoms, daffodils, and tulips blooming in Washington, D.C.
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/music-for-flower-gazing/
Here in Washington, D.C., we are lucky to have experienced approximately 87% of “lunar coverage” during the 2024 solar eclipse. You can keep the party going tonight. Trade out your eclipse gl...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/dont-let-the-sun-go-down-on-me/
The following is a guest post by Morgan Davis, Music Reference Specialist. As music lovers finally exhale after the highly anticipated release of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” we are once aga...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/on-linda-martell-and-country-music/
The Library of Congress Music Division is proud to be the new home of guitarist and bandleader Eddie Condon’s Gibson L-7 Plectrum guitar, which was custom made for him in 1965. The guitar (pict...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/04/eddie-condons-gibson-guitar-finds-a-new-home-at-the-library/
The following is a guest blog by Charlotte Stephens, MLS Candidate, University of Kentucky, who spent a week supporting the work of the Library’s Music Division as part of her academic study. A...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/03/one-students-week-of-discovery-in-the-music-division/