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    Abdullah Ibrahim & Dan Morgenstern in Conversation Abdullah Ibrahim talks with Dan Morgenstern about jazz as part of the Library of Congress Jazz Scholars program.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: Smokey Robinson Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden welcomes legendary R&B singer Smokey Robinson to the Library to talk about his recent selection as the recipient of the 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The interview takes place in the Library's George and Ira Gershwin Room with Robinson sitting at George Gershwin's favorite piano.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Members of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group are joined by pianist Huw Watkins for a chamber music performance during the Oliver Knussen Residency. On the program is Benjamin Britten's "Phantasy," op. 2; the Washington, DC premiere of Elliott Carter's "Epigrams"; the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's "Tiger's Nest" for piano trio, a Library of Congress commission; Hans Werner Henze's "Adagio adagio"; and Oliver Knussen's Cantata...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll Cultural historian and author Peter Guralnick spoke with art journalist Geoffrey Himes about his latest book, a biography of Sam Phillips, a pivotal figure in the history of 20th-century American music of many stripes. Owner of the small but powerful Sun Records Label in Memphis, Phillips was a major force in kick-starting the careers of Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Ike Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    African-American Spirituals of the Civil War: Performance Workshop A spirituals performance workshop led by J. Weldon Norris, director of choruses at Howard University and a leading performer-scholar of spirituals. Part of a symposium on African-American Spirituals of the Civil War.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Discovering Creative Connections: The Collaboration of Erick Hawkins & Lucia Dlugoszewski Libby Smigel and Kate Doyle discuss the collaborations of modern dance choreographer Erick Hawkins and experimental music composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. Now accessible in the artists' papers in the Library, correspondence, choreographic notation and music charts and scores shed light on the note-taking system Hawkins developed that show his creative process as well as create movement scores for his dances. The papers of Dlugoszewski include...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2017
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    Concert: Light & Matter Jennifer Koh, Anssi Karttunen and Ieva Jokuaviciute perform Finnish and French chamber music repertoire. On the program are Debussy's Sonata for violoncello and piano, Kaija Saariaho's "Aure" for violin and cello," and Saariaho's Library of Congress co-commission, "Light and Matter" for piano trio.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    The Long and Short of It Composer Paul Lansky is joined by Jack Marquardt and Tracy Jacobson of WindSync to discuss Lansky's "The Long and Short of It," a Library of Congress commission for woodwind quintet.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Print Me a Stradivarius: Oberlin Betts Panel Discussion Top American instrument makers talk about the impressive results of a recent project to use modern technologies to copy the Library's superb Betts violin, from the Golden Period of master instrument maker Antonio Stradivari. Also, the debut performance of the Oberlin Betts violin, in comparison with the original Betts Stradivari violin, featuring violinists Claudia Chudacoff and Christopher Franke.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2013
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    A Leading Role: A Conversation on Women in the Music World A pre-concert panel discussion featuring Jane Chu, Margaret Lioi and Astrid Schween.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Kwuon, Smirnoff, Robinson, Babayan Concert Violinist Joan Kwuon leads a quartet of distinguished world-class players from the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. The program featured Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478 and Brahms' Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor, op. 25.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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    CMA Songwriters Series 2015 Legendary host "Whisperin' Bill" Anderson explored the songwriting process with other country music luminaries, including the versatile Pam Tillis, rising star Mo Pitney and a man who penned tunes for Elvis, Mac Davis. Hear the musicians talk about their songs and offer their own illuminating performances on this unique evening of music and conversation in this annual event sponsored by the Country Music Association.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Meredith Monk In concert with her acclaimed vocal ensemble, Meredith Monk illustrates her range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Abdullah Ibrahim & Larry Appelbaum in Conversation Abdullah Ibrahim talks with Larry Appelbaum about jazz as part of the Library of Congress Jazz Scholars program.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Words, Images & Music: A Dialogue on Torquato Tasso & the Arts Laura Benedetti of Georgetown University and Peter Lukehart of the National Gallery of Art discuss 16th Century Italian poet Torquato Tasso in a program co-sponsored by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Frederic Rzewski, Jennifer Koh & the Del Sol String Quartet Frederic Rzewski performs original works as a soloist ("Winter Nights" and "Flowers") and with violinist Jennifer Koh, including the world premiere of "Satires," a Library of Congress McKim Fund commission. The Del Sol String Quartet performs George Antheil's String Quartet no. 1 and Benjamin Johnston's String Quartet no. 10.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Michael Beckerman Lectures on Dvořák & Martinů Musicologist Michael Beckerman discusses the music of Dvořák and Martinů in conjunction with a performance by the Pavel Haas Quartet at the Library of Congress, which featured Martinů's String Quartet no. 3, H. 183, and Dvořák's String Quartet in D minor, op. 34 and String Quartet in F major, op. 96 ("American").
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Isamu Noguchi's Dance Sets Dakin Hart discussed Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi's explorations of the archetypal spaces of myth, including the American west, the Minotaur's labyrinth and the "cave of the heart."
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Calefax Reed Quintet A performance by the Calefax Reed Quintet, including Ockeghem's "Mort, tu as navré de ton dart", Franck's "Prélude, fugue et variation, op. 18", Selected Studies for Player Piano by Nancarrow, Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28" and Selections from Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, op. 87.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Elizabethan Poetry and Music James Wintle discusses Elizabethan poetry and music in the collections of the Library's Music Division. This pre-concert lecture was presented in conjunction with a concert featuring mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, lutenist Thomas Dunford, and keyboardist Jonathan Cohen.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Concert: Nicholas Phan & Myra Huang Tenor Nicholas Phan performed with pianist Myra Huang, his partner in two eloquent recent recordings, to offer a program pairing major cycles by Schumann and Britten with songs by Ned Rorem and Paul Bowles.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Musicians from Marlboro Concert January 2016 Two "Musicians from Marlboro" concerts during the 2015-2016 season make a bow to the Library's historic relationship with the Marlboro Festival and its founders, evoking concerts performed here by Adolph Busch, Rudolf Serkin, Marcel Moyse and other festival luminaries. This program is built around Krzysztof Penderecki's 1993 Quartet for clarinet and string trio. Meditative and nostalgic, with a final movement marked Abschied ("Farewell"), the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    African-American Spirituals of the Civil War: Concert A performance by the Howard University Chorale and Baltimore City College High School Choir, as part of a Library symposium on African-American spirituals of the Civil War.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Curtis Chamber Orchestra Robert Spano leads the Curtis Chamber Orchestra in an exclusive Washington, D.C. appearance. Violist Roberto Díaz premieres a new concerto by Jennifer Higdon, commissioned by the Library of Congress and the Curtis Institute, and Spano puts on his composer hat for a performance of his Hölderlin-Lieder. The orchestra rounds out the program with works by Prokofiev and Mozart.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Two Thousand Flutes An introduction to the Library's remarkable Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection: meet a few of the Library's nearly 2,000 instruments in this lecture-recital featuring flutist Lorna McGhee of the Pittsburgh Symphony, pianist Ryo Yanagitani of the S&R Foundation, and musical instrument curator Carol Lynn Ward Bamford. Produced in association with the S&R Foundation.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2015