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    Film, Video
    Quatuor Van Kuijk Watch Quatuor Van Kuijk perform an impressive program that included a U.S. premiere by the French composer Benjamin Attahir. This video contains excerpts from their performance in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Program: [0:00] Introduction [0:07:20] Gabriel Fauré: "Les berceaux," op. 23/1 [0:10:28] "Mandoline," op. 58/1 [0:12:29] Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet no. 6 in F minor, op....
    • Contributor: Vita, Susan H.
    • Date: 2023-09-27
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    Signum Quartet The Signum Quartet's performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden has been called "as boldly imagined as a symphony" (The Times, London). The exciting German ensemble plays Schubert's emotional masterpiece, a robust Haydn quartet, the enchanting and rarely heard Quartet for Strings by South African British composer Priaulx Rainier ("a revelation, according to The Independent), and a striking contemplation on mortality by South African...
    • Contributor: Quartet, Signum
    • Date: 2023-09-27
  • Film, Video
    Hispanic Heritage Month Message from Carla Hayden Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden shares a greeting for Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.
    • Contributor: Hayden, Carla D.
    • Date: 2023-09-15
  • Film, Video
    Seeing Lost Enclaves: Research Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren describes the research process for the relational reconstructions of Providence Chinatown and other sites, as well as the search methods, strategies and challenges of doing research into destroyed and erased communities. This video is part of the Seeing Lost Enclaves toolkit, a free resource for virtually reconstructing lost or erased historic neighborhoods of color using...
    • Contributor: Yoo Warren, Jeffrey
    • Date: 2023-09-15
  • Film, Video
    Seeing Lost Enclaves: Atmosphere Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren and artist Alicia Renee Ball discuss the importance of emotional tone in relational reconstructions, including lighting and atmospheric effects. Alicia then demonstrates how she has used a speculative approach to reconstructing a historic site, incorporating fog, trees and fireflies. This video is part of the Seeing Lost Enclaves toolkit, a free resource for virtually reconstructing...
    • Contributor: Yoo Warren, Jeffrey
    • Date: 2023-09-15
  • Film, Video
    Seeing Lost Enclaves: Soundscapes Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren and artist Ann Chen discuss their approach to reconstructing historical soundscapes, including a speculative deep "listening" exercise with an archival photo, and a close listening exercise at the site of Providence Chinatown in 2023. They also demonstrate placement of spatialized audio in a virtual environment. This video is part of the Seeing Lost Enclaves toolkit,...
    • Contributor: Yoo Warren, Jeffrey
    • Date: 2023-09-15
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    Seeing Lost Enclaves: Modeling Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren demonstrates relational reconstruction techniques for using archival photographs and maps to build virtual models of historic buildings and scenes. Topics include removing working with terrain, perspective distortion, and reconstructing building facades from multiple images. This video is part of the Seeing Lost Enclaves toolkit, a free resource for virtually reconstructing lost or erased historic neighborhoods...
    • Contributor: Yoo Warren, Jeffrey
    • Date: 2023-09-15
  • Film, Video
    Seeing Lost Enclaves: A Virtual Visit of Providence's Historic Chinatown Join Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren to experience and learn about his work virtually reconstructing lost neighborhoods with communities of color around the United States.
    • Contributor: Yoo Warren, Jeffrey - Mears, Jaime
    • Date: 2023-09-15
  • Film, Video
    The Fragile, the Flammable and the Forbidden: Books in the Art of Xiaoze Xie Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas. Xie has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally, his recent solo exhibitions include "Objects of Evidence" at the Asia Society Museum in New York City (2019-20) and "Eyes On" at the Denver Art Museum (2017-18). Xie's work has garnered...
    • Contributor: Song, Yuwu - Xie, Xiaoze
    • Date: 2023-09-14
  • Film, Video
    Inks and Skins The manuscripts created from calfskin by secular scholars in Ireland prior to 1600 contain a wealth of tales and poetry, together with historical, legal and scientific writing. The vernacular traditions contained in these books are extraordinary witnesses to Gaelic civilization and learning on the western limit of the known world. Inks and Skins seeks to unearth that narrative by focusing on how and by...
    • Date: 2023-09-13
  • Film, Video
    Congress.gov Public Forum The Congress.gov Public Forum provides an opportunity for the public to learn about recent enhancements to Congress.gov and to provide feedback about the site so the Library can learn how we can better serve our patrons' legislative information needs.
    • Date: 2023-09-13
  • Film, Video
    Kent State: Recreating History with Comics from the Small Press Expo Author Series Award-winning artist and author Derf Backderf will discuss his latest published graphic novel: "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio." He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially "My Friend Dahmer", the international bestseller which won an Angoul??me Prize, and earlier for his comic strip "The City", which appeared in a number of alternative newspapers from 1990 to 2014. In 2006 Derf won the...
    • Contributor: Bernard, Warren - Higley, Georgia - Backderf, Derf
    • Date: 2023-09-07
  • Film, Video
    "Books That Shaped America" C-SPAN Series Kickoff This fall, C-SPAN launches a new series, "Books That Shaped America." The Library of Congress and C-SPAN partnered to explore key works from American history that have had a major impact on society. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Historian Douglas Brinkley kickoff this series with a discussion about how these books have provoked thought, have been best sellers, have led to significant public...
    • Contributor: Slen, Peter - Brinkley, Douglas - Hayden, Carla
    • Date: 2023-09-07
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    Singing in Solidarity: Women's Voices Celebrate Labor Day In celebration of Labor Day, the Library's American Folklife Center honors the contributions of women of both the past and present. This compilation of Folklife Homegrown and other concerts includes performances by Thea Hopkins, Ialoni, Martha Gonzales, Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light, Piper Hayes, and the group, Windborne that feature the voices of women.
    • Date: 2023-09-06
  • Film, Video
    Conversation with Nani Noam Vazana Noam "Nani" Vazana is one of the only artists in the world who writes and composes new songs in the endangered Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) language, a very archaic form of Castilian Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece and Turkey. Ladino, which traveled to these areas with Jewish communities expelled from Spain in 1492, is very nearly...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen - Vazana, Noam "Nani"
    • Date: 2023-09-06
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    PBS Books 2023 National Book Festival Author Talk: Angeline Boulley and Trang Thanh Tran PBS Books, in collaboration with Kansas City PBS and KERA in Dallas, Texas, interviews authors Angeline Boulley followed by Trang Thanh Tran.
    • Contributor: Tran, Trang Thanh - Boulley, Angeline
    • Date: 2023-08-31
  • Film, Video
    PBS Books 2023 National Book Festival Author Talk: Héctor Tobar PBS Books, in collaboration with PBS SoCal, interviews Héctor Tobar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. Tobar is the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller "Deep Down Dark" as well as "The Barbarian Nurseries," "Translation Nation" and "The Tattooed Soldier."
    • Contributor: Tobar, Héctor
    • Date: 2023-08-30
  • Film, Video
    From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: The Cylinder Era of Recording This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, with all day-immersive sound installations in rooms along Mahogany Row in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
    • Contributor: Widzinski, Melissa - Barton, Matthew - Sager, David
    • Date: 2023-08-24
  • Film, Video
    From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: Les Paul and the Early Days of Multi-Tracking This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, with all day-immersive sound installations in rooms along Mahogany Row in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
    • Contributor: Rosenthal, Steve - Margouleff, Perry
    • Date: 2023-08-24
  • Film, Video
    From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: World War II on Wire and Film This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, with all day-immersive sound installations in rooms along Mahogany Row in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
    • Contributor: Barton, Matthew - Bergh, Nicholas
    • Date: 2023-08-24
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    From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: The 20th Century on the Radio This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, with all day-immersive sound installations in rooms along Mahogany Row in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building.
    • Contributor: Barton, Matthew
    • Date: 2023-08-24
  • Film, Video
    PBS Books 2023 National Book Festival Author Talk: Matthew Desmond PBS Books, in collaboration with WTTW in Chicago, hosts Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University to discuss his latest release "Poverty, by America."
    • Contributor: Desmond, Matthew
    • Date: 2023-08-24
  • Film, Video
    Deitsch: Traditional Folk Music, Made in Germany Deitsch plays traditional songs and dance tunes from Germany, some of them 250 years old. For years, German folk music was neglected and nearly forgotten, or derided as old-fashioned and conservative. But now, arranged and interpreted in the style of modern folk music from Germany's European neighbors, it emerges timeless and contemporary at the same time.
    • Contributor: Deitsch
    • Date: 2023-08-23
  • Film, Video
    Conversation with Gundrun Walther and Jürgen Treyz of Deitsch Gudrun Walther (voice, violin, viola, diatonic accordion) and Jürgen Treyz (guitar, mandolin, mandola, voice) had built up years of experience with award-winning bands and projects before founding Deitsch as a duo in the mid 2000s. Their duo recordings won many awards, including the German Record Critics' Quarterly Prize in 2009. They have since added Barbara Hintermeier (violin, viola, voice) and Steffen Gabriel (flute, bagpipes,...
    • Contributor: Treyz, Jürgen - Walther, Gundrun - Winick, Stephen
    • Date: 2023-08-23
  • Film, Video
    PBS Books 2023 National Book Festival Author Talk: TJ Klune PBS Books, in collaboration with South Florida PBS, presents TJ Klune, the bestselling author of "The House in the Cerulean Sea," "Into This River I Drown" and "Under the Whispering Door."
    • Contributor: Klune, Tj
    • Date: 2023-08-23