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#Britten100: Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears at the Library
Benjamin Britten conducting (Date Unknown)—Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress REVISED July 21, 2014 to include the recording of Peter Pears reciting “The Composer” by W.H. Auden...
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C.P.E. Bach at 300
The following is a guest post from Daniel Boomhower, Head of Reader Services in the Music Division. In the eighteenth century mention of the name Bach brought foremost to mind either Johann Christian...
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Best Buddies, or just Goethe Friends?
Last week on May 7, Brahms and Tchaikovsky shared a birthday—an annual event since Tchaikovsky waltzed into the world in1840, seven years after Brahms. While the composers may not have cared much for...
View ArticleLigeti Split—a Quick Birthday Greeting, with Consequences
Happy Birthday, György Ligeti! The great composer was born this day in 1923, and since his passing in 2006 his music has continued to inspire. The Library of Congress has a special relationship with...
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Star-Spangled Mash-up #SSB200
James Wolf of the Library of Congress has created a fantastic video compilation of some of our audio and visual treasures related to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” View the video below and peruse more...
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2014-2015 Concert Season Announcement: “Beyond Labels”
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2014-2015 Concerts from the Library of Congress season announcement is now available! Music should bring us together and open our minds to discovery, innovation and...
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Revamped “Friends of Music” Donor Recognition Program
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Founder, Concerts from the Library of Congress [Charcoal Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1923], Music Division, Library of CongressFor the 2014-2015 season of Concerts...
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Irving Fine Centennial Oral Histories
Irving Fine by Ruth Orkin (Irving Fine Collection, Music Division) The Library of Congress, home to the Irving Fine Collection, is proud to commemorate the hundredth birthday of this important figure...
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Unforgetting the Forgotten: Liszt’s Oubliéegatory Birthday Post
Have you ever forgotten the pleasures of an early romance, or been unable to recall a tune that is just at the back of your mind? Or, perhaps like late Liszt, have you ever forgotten your keys? Such is...
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge @ 150
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Charcoal Portrait, John Singer Sargent, 1923 (Wikimedia Commons) The following is a guest blog by Anne McLean, Senior Producer for Concerts and Special Projects, Music...
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Irving Fine Centennial Preview
Irving Fine and Aaron Copland teaching at Brandeis University, 1961 (Irving Fine Collection, Library of Congress) Library of Congress Commemorates Irving Fine World Premiere Performances, Lecture,...
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An Act of Congress: 90th Anniversary Kick-Off
On this day in 1925 President Calvin Coolidge signed into law a Joint Resolution from the 68th Congress of the United States of America “To accept the gift of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for the...
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This Weekend @ Concerts from the Library of Congress
This Weekend @ Concerts from the Library of Congress Jennifer Higdon by J. Henry Fair Saturday, March 7, 2015 – 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium) CURTIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Robert Spano, conductor Roberto...
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New Webcasts Available
We’re cranking out lots of new event webcasts! Here’s a smattering of the latest releases: CONCERTS Courtesy of Graham Ross Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, U.K. Graham Ross, conductor Part of the...
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Leopold’s Turn: Leopold Mozart Turns 300
The following is a guest post from Music Reference Specialist Robert Lipartito. November 14 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, composer, violinist, teacher,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Maria!
To mark the 59th birthday of Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger and bandleader Maria Schneider on Wednesday, we revisit four webcast videos of her time at the Library. The first is a performance...
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Happy Birthday Chris Potter
Photograph of Chris Potter (left) and Larry Appelbaum (right), 2019. Photo credit: Larry Appelbaum. Every generation has its saxophone heroes in jazz: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and...
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Happy Birthday to Heifetz and Kreisler!
Did you know that two of the most famous violinists in history – Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler – are birthday twins? On Feb. 2, 2020, it will be Heifetz’s 119th birthday and Kreisler’s 145th...
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A Leap Year Birthday for Rossini
Lithograph portrait of Rossini by G. Grevedon, 1828. Prints & Photographs Division, Repro number LC-USZ61-213. Tomorrow we wish a happy 228th birthday to Gioachino Rossini! But on second thought,...
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Happy 125th Birthday to William Grant Still!
[William Grant Still, half-length portrait, facing front]. 1925. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. Mississippi-born composer William...
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