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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, VideoWriting About Music in a Time of Change Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize winner and chief classical music critic for The Washington Post, delivered the 2006 Louis C. Elson Memorial Lecture on "Writing About Music in a Time of Change" in...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoThe Cellos of Stradivari Cellists Richard Belcher of the Enso String Quartet and Steven Honigberg of the National Symphony Orchestra, along with sculptor/instrument collector Alfredo Halegua, luthier John Montgomery, and Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford of the Library's...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoMen, Let's Sing: Choral Music For Men's Voices Preceding the Cantus concert was a panel discussion titled "Men, Let's Sing: Choral Music for Men's Voices" in a program sponsored by the Music Division. Panelists for the preconcert presentation were Frank...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoAn Introduction to the Collections of the Music Division As part of the Library's docent training, the chief and members of the Music Division Staff give a presentation on the Music Division's collections. Speakers: Sue Vita - Introduction to the Music...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Visitor Engagement Office - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoInterview with Composer and Pianist Fred Hersch Part of the series "American Creativity: The Composer-Performer," this interview with the composer and pianist Fred Hersch, one of a series of portraits of major jazz figures appearing at the Library of...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoAfter Pearl Harbor: Music, War and the Library of Congress The Music Division of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society, in joint partnership, presented the second in a series of lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the division's collections....
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoThe World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Daniel Levitin gives a talk titled "The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature." Director of McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise and best-selling author...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoThe Music of Language and the Language of Music In our everyday lives, language and instrumental music are obviously different things. Neuroscientist and musician Ani Patel is the author of a recent, elegantly argued offering from Oxford University Press, "Music, Language...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoStevie Wonder Performs "Sketches of a Life" Singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder, the awardee of the second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, premieres "Sketches of a Life," a sprawling, hybrid pop-classical concerto, written between 1976 and 1994. The...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoViolin Master Class with Christian Tetzlaff Virtuoso violinist Christian Tetzlaff conducted a violin master class at the Library for area students and teachers.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoDepression and Creativity Symposium Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, convened a discussion of the effects...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoStevie Wonder Discusses Library Commission "Sketches of a Life" Stevie Wonder talks to Norman Middleton of the Library's Music Division about his new Library of Congress commission, "Sketches of a Life," and his thoughts about composition and music.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoAllen Toussaint & Larry Appelbaum Prior to a concert by Allen Toussaint and Henry Butler at the Library of Congress, Toussaint sat for an interview with Larry Appelbaum about his hit records, life in the recording studios,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoJazz Conversation: Argentine Pianist & Composer Guillermo Klein Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Klein talks with Library of Congress music specialist Larry Appelbaum.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoNow It Can Be Told: The Unknown Irving Berlin The Music Division of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society, in joint partnership, presented the third in a series of lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the division's collections....
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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