http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert Notifications of upcoming concerts, lectures, symposia and other events and programs hosted by the Library's Music Division. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:14:35 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013004 Carmen Mercedes McRae (1920-1994) was an American jazz vocalist, pianist, composer, and recording artist. The papers chiefly contain musical arrangements and lead sheets for approximately 800 songs. While many of the arrangements include both full scores and parts, the majority are lead sheets or parts used for her small group performances. The papers also include a small amount of correspondence, photographs, song lists, program notes, and promotional materials. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013003 Halsey Stevens was an American composer, musicologist, and teacher. He is best known for his chamber music works and published monograph, The Life and Music of Bela Bartok. The collection contains music manuscripts, writings, research materials, programs, correspondence, and other materials related to his projects. Only the music materials are available online at this time. These materials consist of scores, parts, and sketches for instrumental works for keyboard, chamber ensemble, and full orchestra, as well as vocal and choral works and arrangements for varying instrumentations. <br> <br> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013002 Howard Ashman (1950-1991) was a lyricist, librettist, playwright and director. The papers chiefly consist of materials from his work, including his collaborations with composer Alan Menken, such as Little Shop of Horrors and the Disney animated musicals The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. Materials include scripts, piano-conductor scores, correspondence, business papers, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, clippings, notes, research materials, programs, writings, drawings, sketches, storyboards, address and date books, and memorial tributes. <br> <br> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013001 The National Negro Opera Company, the first African-American opera company in the United States, was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941, by Mary Cardwell Dawson. The collection contains materials and records related to the company and to Dawson. It includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, photographs, programs, promotional and publicity materials, scrapbooks, clippings, address books, notebooks, costumes, music, and books. In addition, the collection contains materials related to opera singer La Julia Rhea, who performed with the company, and Walter M. Dawson, Mary Cardwell Dawson's husband, who worked for the company. <br> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012022 Arthur Laurents (1917-2011) was an American playwright, screenwriter and Broadway director. The collection, which documents his life and career, includes scripts, correspondence, datebooks, photographs, book drafts, production notes, programs, publicity materials, business papers, awards, clippings, and articles. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012021 Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer. He is particularly known for his songwriting partnership with lyricist Howard Dietz. The collection, which documents his life and career, includes music manuscripts, sketches and lyric sheets, correspondence, photographs, scripts, clippings, publicity materials, financial and legal documents, writings, and awards. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012012 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was a composer, pianist, and patron of music. In 1925, she created the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress in support of chamber music. The collection contains Coolidge's correspondence to and from many of the prominent musical artists of the first half of the twentieth century as well as Library of Congress librarians and administrators. The remaining materials in the collection, including photographs, scrapbooks, business papers, programs, publicity materials, iconography, realia, and clippings, are available for research and will be incorporated into the finding aid at a later date. Music manuscripts of works commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge or the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress comprise a substantial portion of the collection and are cataloged individually. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012020 Marge Champion (b. 1919) is an American actress, dancer, director, choreographer, and teacher. The collection, which documents her life and career, includes biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, programs, promotional materials, manuscript music scores and parts, articles, business papers, clippings, scripts, scrapbooks, awards and posters. The collection also includes materials related to Champion's former husband, director and choreographer Gower Champion, and her father, dancer and choreographer Ernest Belcher. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/nijinska/nijinska-home.html The collection of notable dancer, choreographer and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) contains a diverse variety of materials documenting dance and the arts in the twentieth century. Available here are over 200 collection items, including manuscripts, books, diaries, choreographic notebooks, correspondence, moving image materials, music scores, photographs, posters, programs, set and costume designs, and scrapbooks. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/balletsrusses/balletsrusses-home.html The world of ballet changed dramatically when the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev took Paris by storm at the Theatre du Chatelet in May of 1909. This web presentation includes a wide range of Ballets Russes objects, including photographs, scrapbooks, writings, music scores, costume and set designs, choreographic notes, diaries, and programs. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012017 Florence Parr-Gere, born in Canada and longtime resident of New York, was a pianist and composer. Her papers contain published music, photographs, clippings, correspondence, a scrapbook, publicity materials, posters and other materials related to her experiences at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau and lifelong musical pursuits. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012019 Frederick Loewe was a German-born composer who wrote, with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, the scores for such musicals as My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, and Brigadoon. The collection contains music manuscripts from Loewe's stage and screen musicals, as well as individual songs not associated with a particular show. In addition, the collection contains photographs, a small amount of correspondence, clippings, business papers, writings, and programs. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012010 Author Burt Boyar is the biographer of American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. The collection contains draft materials for his books Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965) and Sammy: An Autobiography (2000), and taped interviews with Davis used in writing the book Why Me?: The Sammy Davis, Jr. Story (1989). http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012018 In a career that spanned nearly seventy years, American comedian and entertainer Bob Hope performed in theater, radio, film, and television, and in numerous public appearances, including his tours in support of the U.S. armed forces. Music from the Bob Hope Collection contains manuscript scores, instrumental parts, and lyrics for nearly 500 works used in Hope's films, television programs and personal appearances. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012015 Peggy Clark (1915-1996) was an American lighting, scenic, and costume designer. The collection includes light plots, scenic renderings, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, blueprints, programs, photographs, posters, scripts, scrapbooks, clippings, notes, memorabilia and other materials related to her life and career. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012016 Robert Whitehead was a Tony Award-winning theatrical producer and director. The collection contains production files, correspondence, business papers, writings, photographs, costume and set renderings, programs and promotional materials, scripts, and other materials related to his life and career. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012014 Hugo Leichtentritt was a German musicologist, music critic, and composer. The collection contains his original music manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, programs, scrapbooks, articles and drafts of his writings on music history, criticism, and theory. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012013 Victor Herbert was a composer, conductor, cellist, and co-founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). The music materials include mostly manuscript scores, parts and sketches for Herbert's stage, screen and orchestral works, and arrangements. The collection also contains Victor Herbert Orchestra encore part books and music by other composers. Additional materials include correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, promotional materials, iconography and legal papers. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012011 Edward Jablonski (1922-2004) was an author and biographer of American songwriters Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Alan Jay Lerner. The collection includes drafts, project files, articles, liner notes, research materials, business papers and correspondence related to his literary projects. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012008 Irving Berlin was an American lyricist and composer of over 1,200 songs. He was also a music publisher, theater owner, and a founding member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). The collection, which documents all aspects of his life and career, contains music scores, Berlin's handwritten and typewritten lyric sheets, publicity and promotional materials, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, business papers, legal and financial records, scrapbooks filled with press clippings, awards and honors, artwork and realia. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012006 Winston Sharples was an American composer best known for his work with animated short films, such as "Casper, the Friendly Ghost," "Popeye the Sailor," and "Jeepers and Creepers." The collection consists of manuscript particells (piano scores with dialogue and cues), scores, parts, and lyric sheets related to his professional engagements. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012009 Anita O'Day was an American jazz vocalist. The collection primarily consists of manuscript scores, lead sheets, parts, and annotated sheet music for arrangements of popular songs and jazz standards performed by O'Day throughout her career. In addition, it contains scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, clippings, honors and awards, posters, and publicity materials. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, writer, lecturer, and pianist. Significant revisions to this finding aid include the following new series: Business Papers, Press Materials, and Fan Mail. Other editorial revisions and updates were made as well. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012001 Vivian Fine was an American composer, pianist, and educator. The collection primarily consists of Fine's holograph manuscript scores, sketches, and parts for works composed between 1929 and 1993. In addition, the collection contains a small amount of correspondence, programs, and clippings. Mozart reviled him. Beethoven admired him. Composer, virtuoso, music publisher, and piano maker, Muzio Clementi built an empire on the growing popularity of the "fortepiano" at the turn of the nineteenth century. Join senior music specialist Robin Rausch as she explores the life and legacy of Muzio Clementi, with a special display featuring items from the Music Division's Clementi holdings. <br> <br>No tickets required. For more information, please call Solomon HaileSelassie in the Library’s Music Division, at (202) 707-5347. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas-natlib/loc.natlib.ihas.200187413/default.html To commemorate the Franz Liszt birth bicentennial and to tie-in with Concert Office events, the Performing Arts Encyclopedia has released a new presentation. Availible through the PAE home page or directly at the link above, the site features an introductory article and a biographical sketch by Reference Specialist Kevin LaVine, selected Liszt manuscripts, Liszt-related source materials and descriptions of Liszt resources in the Library’s collections. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html The Music Treasures Consortium proudly announces a new Web site giving access to some of the world’s most valued music manuscript and print materials, available at <br>http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html. <br>The site is the creation of several renowned music libraries and archives in the United States and the United Kingdom. The consortium members include the British Library, the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, the Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library, the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the New York Public Library. The site is hosted by the Library of Congress on its Performing Arts Encyclopedia (www.loc.gov/performingarts ). The aim of the site is to further music scholarship and research by providing access in one place to digital images of primary sources for performance and study of music. <br> <br>The items digitized include manuscript scores and first and early editions of a work. Seminal composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky, among others, are represented on the site through their original handwritten manuscripts and first editions. The online items range from the 16th century to the 20th century in this initial launch. Researchers can search or browse materials, access bibliographic information about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive’s Web site. The site will continue to grow as consortium members add more items. <br> <br>Initial planning for the consortium was funded by Bruce Kovner. The MTC Advisory Board includes Christoph Wolff, Jeffrey Kallberg, Philip Gossett, and Laurent Pugin. <br> <br>Music Treasures Consortium Members <br> <br>The British Library <br>http://www.bl.uk/ <br>Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University <br>http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/ <br>The Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library <br>http://www.juilliard.edu/libraryarchives/general.html <br>The Library of Congress (host) <br>http://www.loc.gov/ <br>The Morgan Library and Museum <br>http://www.themorgan.org/ <br>The New York Public Library <br>http://www.nypl.org/ <br> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/songsinshows/songsinshows-home.html The Music Division of the Library of Congress announces the launch of a new Web presentation entitled It’s Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen, available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/songsinshows/songsinshows-home.html on the Library’s Performing Arts Encyclopedia (www.loc.gov/performingarts). The site contains a database of sheet music for over 18,000 shows and productions dating from the 1690s to the present, listing more than 67,000 songs. The entries are drawn from the Library’s vast holdings of sheet music for dramatic music of all kinds, including operas, musicals and musical revues, and film music. Most of the sheet music contained here is for voice and piano; a significant minority is instrumental. These pieces come from all over the world and cover every conceivable topic, portraying the culture and history of their time and place in unique and valuable ways. <br> <br>Included in this database are hits and flops by famous Tin Pan Alley songwriters, as well as manuscript and published materials from amateur composers. Rare and special items include early operas; music published in newspapers; lead sheets and other unpublished formats of stage and film music; college and civic productions; and shows produced in Europe between the two World Wars. This dynamic form is still popular in the 21st century, and additions will be made to the Web site as relevant sheet music is acquired by the Library. <br> <br>The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, providing information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits. <br> <br> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/miller/miller-home.html Dayton C. Miller (1866-1941), physicist, inventor, flutist, and collector of all materials related to the history of the flute, donated his world-renowned collection of flutes and flute-related materials to the Library of Congress in 1941. This new Web presentation features a selection of about 120 prints from a subset of the Miller Collection, known as the Miller Iconography Collection. The iconography collection refers to works of art on paper that date from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries containing illustrations of flutes and other musical instruments. <br> <br>Each of the selected prints is accompanied by an essay that includes biographies of artists or authors of illustrated books associated with a particular print. Extensive descriptive information is included in the catalog record for each print. Users will be able to search this online selection of prints by artist, artist's nationality, century, subject, and instrument, as well as by keyword. (The entire iconography collection consists of about 850 prints, and a checklist of the entire collection is also available on the site.) Although his iconography collection primarily features wind instruments, since it complements Dr. Miller's collection of flutes, there are many other musical instruments represented in the prints as well, including stringed, keyboard, and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to the present, ancient Greek or Roman instruments, and instruments indigenous to Asia, India, Africa, and the South Pacific. <br> <br>Special essays on this Web presentation describe how Dayton C. Miller came to collect the prints in the iconography collection and how he organized the collection; how the musical instruments in the prints were identified; and how this presentation came to be in terms of the research involved, the selection process, and other factors. <br> <br>The larger Dayton C. Miller Collection consists of 1,700 flutes; 10,000 pieces of music composed for the flute; his library of 3,000 books documenting the history of the flute and flutemaking; his correspondence and ledger books; 2,000 photographs which include hundreds of photos of flutists or composers for the flute; European and American patent trademark catalogues; a small statuary collection; and the iconography collection. Images of a selection of the flutes are available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dmhome.html. Please note that appointments are needed to view the Dayton C. Miller Collection. Please contact the curator of the musical instrument collections by telephone at 202-707-9083 or by email at mdiv@loc.gov. <br> http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/01/remembering-ernest-bloch-1880-1959/ Remember Swiss-born composer Ernest Bloch, born on this day in 1880, with a blog post from In the Muse, the Performing Arts Blog. Read about the composer's relationship with the Library of Congress, and visit the Performing Arts Encyclopedia for a look at some of his early works as well as his photographs. http://www.pbs.org/inperformanceatthewhitehouse/ "Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House," a PBS music special in produced by WETA produced in association with the Library of Congress, airs on Wednesday, July 28 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide, followed by an encore presentation at 9:30 p.m. <br> <br>President and Mrs. Obama hosted the concert event on June 2 in honor of musician Sir Paul McCartney's receipt of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. <br> <br>The evening includes performances by McCartney himself and Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Jonas Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, Emmylou Harris, Lang Lang and Jack White, with remarks by Jerry Seinfeld. The ninety-minute music special, part of the PBS "In Performance at the White House" series, features the concert event as well as behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. <br> <br>The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is named in honor of the legendary George and Ira Gershwin. This award recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world's culture. The prize is given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins. The first Gershwin Prize was awarded to Paul Simon in May 2007 and the second to Stevie Wonder in February 2009. <br> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-152.html "Princess Noire" Is Portrait of Brilliant Singer <br> <br>The triumphs and difficulties of the brilliant and high-tempered Nina Simone are documented in a new biography called "Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone" (Pantheon, 2010) by Nadine Cohodas. The author will discuss and sign her work at the Library of Congress on Monday, July 12, at noon in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Center for the Book as part of its Books &amp; Beyond author series. The Serial and Government Publications Division is co-sponsoring this event. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-119.html Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced that the third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will be presented to Sir Paul McCartney at a special concert in the East Room of the White House on June 2, 2010. <br> <br>The program, to be taped by WETA Washington, D.C., as part of the "In Performance at the White House" series, will air on PBS stations nationwide on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at 8 p.m. EDT (check local listings) as "Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House." <br> <br>The concert will feature a tribute by major stars, many of whom will perform the songs that propelled McCartney to legendary status in music and humanitarianism around the world. The lineup of performers includes Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Jonas Brothers, Dave Grohl, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae and remarks by Jerry Seinfeld. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100004626/default.html Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was one of the essential architects of the Great American Songbook. The Performing Arts Encyclopedia features a number of his more famous songs, like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "God Bless America," but on this rainy day in Washington please enjoy this lesser known number, "Call me up some rainy afternoon." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200153237/default.html Celebrate the birthday of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) with materials from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia, which include this manuscript of his violin concerto, op. 77. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ This week on In the Muse, the Performing Arts blog, we celebrated Billie Holiday's birthday, noted the passing of Latin Jazz singer Graciela Perez-Grillo, and wondered what Dmitri Shostakovich and avant-garde jazz figure John Zorn have in common. We also celebrate tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon with a film screening and lecture this month. All this and more IN THE MUSE. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ This past week on In the Muse, the Performing Arts blog, you could read about Music and Stage Fright, celebrate Easter, and sing songs for opening day of baseball season; and today remember one of the greatest of all jazz singers. All this and more In the Muse. http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/balletsrusses/Pages/default.aspx Russian dance impresario Serge Diaghilev was born March 31st, 1872. The Music Division recently hosted an exhibition of Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev'€™s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929, now available online. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ In the past week, In the Muse, the Performing Arts Blog, looked at a Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg musical long thought to be lost; wished a happy birthday to J.S. Bach; and remembered Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel for Women's History Month. Read all about this and more In the Muse. http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/03/country-roads-bring-cma-to-library-concert-collections-display/ On March 9th, the Music Division welcomed the Country Music Association and a roster of country music stars to the Coolidge Auditorium. Read all about the concert on The Library of Congress Blog. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ In the past week, In the Muse, the Performing Arts Blog, has issued remembrances of Lawrence Welk, on what would have been his 107th birthday; found Great Mustaches of the Library of Congress in the heart of the Music Division; and celebrated St. Patrick's Day in song. All this and more In the Muse. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200183698/default.html Selected manuscripts, audio recordings and articles have been made available to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth. <br> <br>Read more about Samuel Barber on In the Muse, the Performing Arts Blog: http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/03/samuel-barber/ http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/03/happy-birthday-chopin/ This week on In The Muse, the Performing Arts Blog, we celebrate Chopin's Birthday, get ready for a presentation by composer Roger Reynolds, and remember the Act of Congress that made "The Star Spangled Banner" our National Anthem. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ This past week on In the Muse, the Performing Arts Blog, we celebrated the birthday of the Father of Our Country; and prepared to welcome Concerto Soave to Capitol Hill. Read all about it on In the Muse. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/mendelssohn/mendelssohn-home.html Celebrate the composer's 201st birthday with the web presentation Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/02/african-american-history-month/ Celebrate African-American History Month with the African-American Band Stocks collection on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ This past week we have celebrated the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Dolly Parton, Django Reinhardt, and Robert Burns. Whose birthday will we celebrate today? Find out on In The Muse. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ New this week on In The Muse, the Performing Arts blog: <br> <br>-A remembrance of jazz broadcaster Edward Beach, who passed away on Christmas Day. <br> <br>-A celebration of the birthdays of two legendary jazz drummers, Sid Catlett and Gene Krupa, with photographs from the William P. Gottlieb collection. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/01/remembering-ernest-bloch-1880-1959/ The Music Division recently honored Swiss composer Ernest Bloch with a memorial performance of his viola suite. But did you know he was also a photographer? Read about him this week In the Muse. http://blogs.loc.gov/music/ Last week on In the Muse, the Music Divison's blog, we remembered the death of Antonio Stradivarius with a concert by the Parker Quartet; introduced you to jazz and other collections in the division; and offered seasonal sheet music for the holidays. Mark your browsers now! http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2009/12/meet-the-music-division/ The Performing Arts Blog will showcase treasures in the Music Division's collections of Music, Theater and Dance, from works of the great masters to long forgotten slices of our musical heritage. This blog will also highlight events in the Library's concert series in the Coolidge Auditorium. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200183144/default.html Selected music manuscripts from the Ernest Bloch Collection made available to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200183119/default.html For those of you who are unable to attend the Ernest Bloch Commemoration in the Coolidge Auditorium, please remember the composer on December 10th, the 50th anniversary of his death, with the manuscript score of his "Fantaisie-lied." Watch this space for news of more Bloch material to be available online soon. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100007520/default.html Give thanks with George W. Morgan's "National Thanksgiving Hymn," from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-230.html Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named music legend Paul McCartney as the recipient of the third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. An all-star tribute concert is planned for spring 2010. <br> <br>"As a great admirer of the Gershwins’ songs, I am highly honored to be given the Gershwin Prize by such a great institution as the Library of Congress," McCartney said. <br> <br>The prize commemorates George and Ira Gershwin, the legendary American songwriting team whose extensive manuscript collections reside in the Library of Congress. The prize is awarded to musicians whose lifetime contributions in the field of popular song exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins. The Gershwin Prize is also meant to draw attention to the musical collections in the Library of Congress, especially the vast popular-music collection, and to encourage students, teachers, scholars and researchers to use this free public resource in their scholarly investigations. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000006/default.html Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn on November 14th, 1900. Celebrate his birthday with "Fanfare for the common man," part of the special presentation "Patriotic Melodies" on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-232.html Animated films or cartoons opened opportunities for composers wanting to enhance the visual images of the animators with music, sound effects and songs. A new Library exhibition, "Molto Animato! Music and Animation," opens on Thursday, Nov. 12, and will be on view through March 28, 2010. <br> <br> <br> <br> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html John Philip Sousa was born on November 6, 1854. Celebrate with the online presentation "The March King: John Philip Sousa" on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. <br> <br> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4676 Pianist, vocalist and composer Henry Butler discusses his life of teaching and performing rhythm and blues and jazz in an interview conducted by Larry Appelbaum, Senior Music Reference Specialist. Butler performs selected pieces on the piano influenced by his native New Orleans. He also shares his experience of losing his home from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4744 Conversations on the American influence in Russian Jazz, led by two world-renowned jazz experts, Russian Cyril Moshkow and American Larry Appelbaum, Senior Music Reference Specialist. http://www.loc.gov/blog/2009/10/songs-that-go-bump-in-the-night/ On the Library of Congress blog, Halloween-themed sheet music from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Free and open to the public: Walter Frisch on "Arnold Schoenberg's Creative Journey, 1897-1912." In the Coolidge Auditorium on Wednesday, October 28 from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm. <br> <br>Prof. Frisch's talk will focus on Schoenberg's extraordinary development as a composer across fifteen years near the beginning of his career, from 1897 to 1912, a period framed by his early string quartet in D major and the melodramas of Pierrot Lunaire. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.03091 October 21st is the birthday of jazz trumpet great John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Help celebrate with this portrait from the online collection "William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.gottlieb.06251/default.html October 10th was the birthday of jazz pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk. See this classic portrait of Monk and Howard McGhee in the online collection "William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100009542/default.html October 9th is the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Celebrate with this 1902 arrangement of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus," part of the Historic Sheet Music Collection on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/coptic/coptic-home.html A new Web site is now available on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia: Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant &amp; Hymnody, The Ragheb Moftah Collection at the Library of Congress. <br> <br>With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the earliest music transcriptions by explorers, missionaries, and scholars in Egypt, highlighting Moftah's efforts to notate, record, and preserve all Coptic Orthodox hymns. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/molden.2539 George Gershwin's birthday was September 26th. Celebrate this great American composer with a look at this sketch from Porgy and Bess. Search for "Gershwin" in the Performing Arts Encyclopedia at http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/index.html for more material by the maestro, including a page of his manuscript for Prelude in E-flat Minor. Read about the Library's relationship with the Gershwins at http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9809/gershwin.html <br> <br> http://openworld.gov/article/print.php?id=291&lang=1 On Sept. 30, The Library of Congress Music Division and Open World will co-sponsor a lunchtime event to be held in Dining Room C on the sixth floor of the Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE. The Jazz Summit: Conversations on the American influence in Russian Jazz will be led by two world-renowned jazz experts, Russian Cyril Moshkow and American Larry Appelbaum. Both of these experts have been involved with Open World jazz delegations. Please join us for this free event at noon on Sept. 30. Contact Maura Shelden for details, mshelden@loc.gov. <br> <br>These links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Library of Congress of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organization or individual. The Library of Congress bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content. <br> <br> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-174.html The Library of Congress and baritone Thomas Hampson resume their acclaimed "Song of America" project with a second season through February 2010. The tour's next stop is San Francisco on September 30th. Drawing on the unparalleled collection of American songs housed at the Library of Congress, Hampson will present a unique series of recitals, educational activities, exhibitions, recordings, webcasts and interactive online resources. Some recital venues will have lobby exhibitions of facsimiles from the music archives of the Library, and joint efforts with local academic and cultural partners are planned to give a wide range of listeners access to America's history as told through its rich array of song. http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4636 "What does my music mean to me? It is me, actually, which is good for me to remember. It means a way of communicating and I hope bringing something decent to the world, making things better, one note at a time." Jazz guitarist and composer Jim Hall talks about his life in music with Larry Appelbaum, senior music reference specialist in the Library's Music Division. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200033474/default.html September 5th marks the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), whose manuscript score for Cantata BWV no 9 can be viewed on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/bernstein/ Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. Celebrate his birthday, August 25th, with highlights from the Library of Congress's exceptional Bernstein collection, including photographs, scripts, and correspondence. http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/balletsrusses/Pages/default.aspx The Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev was one of the most influential dance companies of the twentieth century. The Library of Congress comemmorates the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes with an exhibition in the lobby of the Performing Arts Reading Room. Many of the objects come from the Library's Bronislava Nijinska collection, and include photographs of Diaghilev and members of the company, musical scores, production photographs, costume designs, dance notation manuscripts, souvenir programs, and posters. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/mendelssohn/mendelssohn-home.html February 3, 2009 marked marked the bicentennial of the birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn. Selected resoruces from Mendelssohn holdings at the Library of Congress are available on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100003548/default.html An example of the remarkable sheet music cover art to be found in the Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/volcano/volcano-home.html http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-148.html The Art of the Quartet, Premieres of Commissions by Caleb Burhans, Simon Shaheen and Ezequiel Vinao, and on Location at the Atlas Highlight the Season. The Concerts from the Library of Congress series presents a definitive look at the intimate art of the string quartet as the centerpiece of its 84th concert season, which offers 32 concerts, three film series, and 25 lectures by notable scholars, scientists and other experts. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-145.html The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc., have awarded commissions for new musical works to seven composers. Jointly granting the commissions are the foundations and the performing organizations that will present the newly composed works.