Collection Items
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CollectionLos Texmaniacs, traditional conjunto dance music from Texas,
Los Texmaniacs concert and interview collection, 2013 September 11 | Homegrown 2013, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2013-09-11 Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 11, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Los Texmaniacs founder Max Baca is a renowned innovator on the bajo sexto, a twelve-string Mexican guitar, which customarily provides rhythm accompaniment for the button accordion, creating the core of the...- Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Texmaniacs (Musical Group) - Texas Folklife (Organization) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoThe southern journey of Alan Lomax : words, photographs, and music,
American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-02-20 Tom Piazza discussed his new book, The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music, on February 20, 2013, in a lecture sponsored by Library of Congress Center for the Book and the American Folklife Center. The book was published by the Library of Congress in association with W.W. Norton & Company in 2013, with an introduction by folklorist William R. Ferris, and...- Contributor: Piazza, Tom - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoHarmonia, an oral history interview with group members conducted by Theadocia Austen,
Oral history with Harmonia band Oral history interview with three members of the musical group Harmonia: Walt Mikhailovich, Alexander Fedoriouk, and Andrei Pidkivka, regarding learning folk and classical music and playing music as part of community life among Slavic Americans in Cleveland, Ohio and other cities and towns in the central and northeastern United States. They discuss their varied repertoire of older music and music of diverse ethnic groups...- Contributor: Harmonia (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Austen, Theadocia Millich
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoFlory Jagoda oral history interview conducted by Howard Bass,
Oral history with traditional artist Flory Jagoda Flory Jagoda tells her life story. Born in Sarajevo, she discusses her upbringing in Bosnia, keeping her family's Jewish traditions in Ladino while speaking Serbo-Croatian in school, remembering the culture of the Sephardim in the Balkans, her family, her grandmother; Jews escaping Bosnia and the Germans during World War II; her life as a refugee on the island of KorcÌŒula and in Bari, Italy;...- Contributor: Jagoda, Flory - Bass, Howard - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2013-01-01
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Film, VideoNight wanderers videorecording | From Favorites from the Song of America Tour with Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Wolfram Rieger, piano. Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium, Washington, DC, October 28, 2010. (Source Note). Courtesy of the Samuel Barber Estate and G. Schirmer, Inc., www.schirmer.com. Courtesy of G. Schirmer, Inc. http://www.schirmer.com/ (Copyright Notice). Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Barber, Samuel - Davies, W. H. (William Henry) - Rieger, Wolfram - Hampson, Thomas
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoSolitary hotel videorecording | From Favorites from the Song of America Tour with Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Wolfram Rieger, piano. Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium, Washington, DC, October 28, 2010. (Source). Courtesy of G. Schirmer, Inc., www.schirmer.com (Copyright Notice). Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Barber, Samuel - Joyce, James - Rieger, Wolfram - Hampson, Thomas
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoVignettes: Letters from George to Evelyn from the private papers of a World War II bride videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 19 min., 9 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. (General). 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Smith, Alan Louis - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoNow like a lantern videorecording | videorecording ; 2 min., 49 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, July 2-3, 2012. (General). 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Kramer, A. Walter (Arthur Walter) - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig - Raphael, Alice
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoIf I could tell you videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 3 min., 24 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. (General). 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Firestone, Idabelle - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig - Marshall, Madeleine
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoReview videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 5 min., 41 sec. | 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig - Dougherty, Celius
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoSing to me, sing videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 2 min., 15 sec. | 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Henley, W. E. - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoChristine Brewer discusses American song videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 35 min., 23 sec. | Recorded at the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. (General). Music specialist James Wintle from the Library of Congress interviews soprano Christine Brewer about American song. (Content). 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Wintle, James - Brewer, Christine
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoHappiness is a thing called Joe videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 4 min., 18 sec. | 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Arlen, Harold - Harburg, E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel) - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoI had myself a true love videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 4 min., 44 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Mercer, Johnny - Arlen, Harold - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoWhen I have sung my songs videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 2 min., 36 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. (General). 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Charles, Ernest - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoHickory Hill videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 3 min., 26 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Hillyer, Robert - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig - Sargent, Paul
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoCan you imagine that? videorecording | 1 videorecording ; 3 min., 59 sec. | Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress July 2-3, 2012. 16:9 Videorecording (Form).
- Contributor: Merrill, Bob - Brewer, Christine - Rutenberg, Craig
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoCelebrating the Music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David 1 videorecording ; 78 min. | May 8, 2012 (Date). Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (Venue). 16:9
- Date: 2012