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Presentations and performances showcasing the collections of the Library's Music Division and the knowledge of its expert curators
2014 Lectures at Noon
American Musicological Society Lecture
APRIL 22 at Noon
Coolidge Auditorium
"A program not greatly to their credit": Finding New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society through the American Memory Sheet Music Collection
Nancy Newman (pictured on the right), Associate Professor, University of Albany, State University of New York
Presented by the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society.
JANUARY 28 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
The Sound of Broadway and Popular Song: How Arrangers and Orchestrators Transform the Songs We Hear, with Mark Horowitz
FEBRUARY 11 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
The Lost Treasures of Wanda Landowska, with Chris Hartten
FEBRUARY 25 at Noon
Mumford Room, LM-649
Saints on Stage: The Depiction of Mormons in American Musical Theater, with Janet McKinney
MARCH 4 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
Dear Major Bowes: The Amateur Hour Collection at the Library of Congress, with Sharon McKinley
MARCH 11 at Noon
Coolidge Auditorium
Remembering Argos: Life and Loss in the Funeral Odes of Franz Liszt, with David H. Plylar, Ph.D.
MARCH 25 at Noon - CANCELED
Whittall Pavilion
Hidden Figures in American Modernism, with Laura Yust
APRIL 8 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
Jazz as a Cold War Weapon, with
Larry Appelbaum
APRIL 15 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
Recording The Library's Concerts: Pt. 2 (The Digital Revolution), with Mike Turpin
APRIL 24 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik: A Study in Musical Democracy, with Karen Moses
2013 Lectures at Noon
American Musicological Society Guest Presentation
SEPTEMBER 24 at Noon
Coolidge Auditorium
Meaning and Myth in Louise Talma's First Period Works
Kendra Leonard (pictured on the right), Managing Editor, Journal of Music History
Pedagogy, and Director, Silent Film Sound and Music Archive
Presented by the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society.
NOVEMBER 5 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
Boris Kochno, Cole Porter and Sergei Diaghilev, with Walter Zvonchenko
DECEMBER 3 at Noon
Whittall Pavilion
The Belle of the Ball: An American Opera Student at the Turn of the 20th Century, with Caitlin Miller
DECEMBER 16 at Noon
RESCHEDULED from October 8
Whittall Pavilion
"Taps" and General Daniel Butterfield: Tracing the History of America's Bugle Call, with Nicholas Alexander Brown
