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Film, VideoArtists' Rights & the Digital Marketplace Jazz composer and bandleader Maria Schneider is be joined by singer-songwriter Spree Wilson and music industry veteran John L. Simson for a panel discussion on the linkage between artists' rights and the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoRebel Music: Race, Empire & the New Muslim Youth Culture Hisham D. Aidi discusses his widely acclaimed new book that examines how hip-hop, jazz and reggae play crucial roles in the global Muslim youth culture.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoHair Gel & Groupies: Boy Bands in the Library of Congress Ever wonder how the Library of Congress captures popular culture? One way is through archiving boy band memorabilia. The Library's collections are a hidden trove of books and music related to popular...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoThe Icelandic Edda: Myth and the Mind Part of the Music and the Brain series, "The Icelandic Edda: Myth and the Mind -- Wagner, Tolkien, and Beyond" is presented by Hjalmar W. Hannesson, Ambassador of Iceland; Alexander Stein, psychoanalyst;...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoMusic and the Brain: The Positive Affects of Music Therapy on Health Why can someone with Alzheimer's disease recall lyrics to songs when they can't remember the names of their children? Why can a stroke survivor sing words to a familiar song even though...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoCurtis Contemporary Music Ensemble Young artists from one of the nation's top conservatories celebrate the centennial of Samuel Barber. The program includes the Violin Sonata; "Dover Beach" for string quartet and baritone; "Hermit Songs" (Library of...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoWilliam Schuman's Puzzling Seventh Symphony The Music Division of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society, in joint partnership, presented another in a series of lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the division's collections. Steven...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoI'm Frozen and I Can't Play a Thing!: Stage Fright and the Brain Norman Middleton recalls famous artists with the afflictions of stage fright and discusses recent research into solving the condition, through medication and altered thinking patterns that exacerbate the problem.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoThe Dexter Gordon Collection at the Library of Congress Considered one of the world's greatest tenor saxophonists, jazz legend Dexter Gordon (1923-1990) was once quoted as saying, "Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoAlexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg The Alexander String Quartet and composer-pianist-musicologist Robert Greenberg, who has been called "the Elvis of music history and appreciation" unravel the mysteries and marvels of Beethoven's String Quartet op. 130, bringing to...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoA Conversation With Dafnis Prieto and Larry Appelbaum Larry Appelbaum of the Library of Congress' Music Division interviews Dafnis Prieto.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoOn LOCation: Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet Concerts from the Library of Congress presents Dafnis Prieto's Si O Si Quartet with guest artist Christian Howes, on location at the new Atlas Performing Arts Center. Performance:, Si o Si (0:54),...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoASCAP Collection Concert The stories of, and back stories behind, several beloved songs were laid out for a most entertained audience May 11 as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation brought...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoComposer John Adams Reads from His Autobiography Composer John Adams reads from his autobiography, "Hallelujah Junction," and includes additional anecdotes from his life. He speaks about his parents, his first music lessons with his father, the joy he found...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoWellness and Growth: Acoustic Medicine and Music Therapy A discussion presented in cooperation with the American Music Therapy Association.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoManaging Stress and Enhancing Wellness with Music Therapy A discussion in association with the American Music Therapy Association.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoUri Caine & Larry Appelbaum Larry Appelbaum interviewed pianist-composer Uri Caine at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lang Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoUri Caine Trio The Uri Caine Trio perform at the Atlas Performing Center in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoMahan Esfahani: Harpsichord Concert Mahan Esfahani plays Wanda Landowska's Pleyel harpsichord, featuring pieces from her 1927 concert at the Library of Congress.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoJohn Koster: What Did Harpsichords Sound Like in 1910? John Koster discusses the sound of harpsichords in the early part of the 20th Century, in a companion lecture to a concert by Mahan Esfahani.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, Video2010 Gershwin Prize Press Conference Prior to receiving the third annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Sir Paul McCartney was on hand for a press conference at the Library. The third annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoThe English Concert One of the world's finest period instrument orchestras comes to the Library with Alice Coote, a singer praised for her "commanding, sensual, and leonine presence" and "a voice of copper silk" in...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoSam McGee's Railroad Blues & Other Versions of the Republic Greil Marcus excavates a few roots of the American Songbook, examining a handful of indelible and idiosyncratic country, religious or blues songs from the 1920s and their modern revisions.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoSamuel Barber: The Composer and His Music Barbara B. Heyman discusses her book "Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music."
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoMusic Therapy for Alzheimer's & Post-Traumatic Stress Alicia Clair discusses music therapy and their affect on patients with Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress syndrome.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoConcert: Gautier Capuçon & Gabriela Montero An exciting musical partnership born under the aegis of the legendary Martha Argerich: her Venezuelan protégé, Gabriella Montero and the brilliant young French cellist, Gautier Capuçon, two of the most exciting young...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoLionel Loueke Trio West African harmonies and jazz rhythms are seamlessly blended by guitarist/singer/composer Lionel Loueke with Massimo Biolcati on bass and Ferenc Nemeth on drums. Titles:, Dream (Loueke) (0:08), Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer)...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoCMA Songwriters Series 2010 Platinum-selling country quartet Little Big Town and country songwriters Brett James, Lori McKenna and Bob DiPiero kick off the new Country Music Association (CMA) Songwriters concert series at the Library of Congress....
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoWorking (and Not Working) with Bernstein Composer Jack Gottlieb, author of the recently published memoir "Working with Bernstein," discusses his own role as a fellow composer.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoManuscript Sources of Verklarte Nacht Wayne Shirley discusses the manuscript sources for Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht in the Library's Whittall Collection.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoSalzburg Hyperion Ensemble Performing Strauss, Schoenberg & Brahms This ensemble of musicians from prestigious European orchestras and chamber music societies offer well-known and seldom heard chamber music, including the original sextet version of Verklarte Nacht. Program: Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Sextet...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoBernstein Meets Broadway The composer Leonard Bernstein once wrote that his now-famous "West Side Story" of 1957 included a plea for racial tolerance as materials reveal in the Bernstein Collection in the Music Division of...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoStephen Ackert: "Mein junges Leben hat ein End" Organist/harpsichordist Stephen Ackert discusses and demonstrates aspects of Sweelinck's "Mein junges Leben hat ein End" in its original keyboard version.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoConcert: Quator Debussy with Katherine Chi The Lyon-based Quatuor Debussy performs an unusual program that includes Philip Glass' String Quartet no. 2 ("Company"), Puccini's "Crisantemi," and Milhaud's String Quartet no. 9, op. 140. They are joined by pianist...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoDiscussion: Daniels & Kellaway & the American Songbook The Library's Larry Appelbaum talks with musicians Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway on jazz and the American songbook.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoConcert: Eddie Daniels, Roger Kellaway & the American Songbook "A duet of one" -- a concert with Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway, two jazz masters with classical leanings and an impressive command of the American Songbook.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoIn Concert: Paolo Pandolfo & Thomas Boysen Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba) and Thomas Boysen (theorbo/Baroque guitar) play in a dazzling program of Renaissance improvisations and celebrated works by Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais. Program: Sainte-Colombe, Jean de (ca.1640-1700) Prelude,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoSchumann Trio The Schumann Trio plays works of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms. Anthony McGill, clarinet, Michael Tree, viola, Anna Polonsky, piano Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498, "Kegelstatt" (01:17)...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoRonen Givony & Tyondai Braxton Wordless Music founder and artistic director Ronen Givony and composer Tyondai Braxton discuss their work.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoWordless Music Orchestra with Tyondai Braxton Concert by Wordless Music with Tyondai Braxton; Caleb Burhans, conductor.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2011