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/
During last Sunday’s Oscars, many were quick to note the parallels between Ryan Gosling’s performance of “I’m Just Ken” and Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” ...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/03/the-choreographer-who-gave-us-kenergy/
Drawing from the recently processed Barry Sisters Papers housed in the Library of Congress Music Division, archivist Maya Lerman introduces the Barry Sisters vocal duo and their artistic contribu...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/03/the-barry-sisters-and-yiddish-swing/
Celebrate Rossini's leap day birthday with a close-up look at his original manuscript for his Septet for two flutes, clarinet, and string quartet, recently acquired by the Library of Congress and...
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2024/02/rossinis-septet-a-leap-day-birthday-gift/