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    The 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 and the Brain." Oliver Sacks calls Patel a "pioneer in the use of new concepts and technology to investigate the neural correlates of music." In Patel's presentation, he discusses some of the…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2008
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    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Emerging from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1987 under the leadership of founding patron Sir Simon Rattle, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a global leader in the performance of new music. The program showcases the Library's rich commissioning and presenting legacies.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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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. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2015
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    Curtis 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 Congress commission); "Summer Music" for woodwind quintet; and, the Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26, for piano.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2010
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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. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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    Folk Music, the Folk Revival & Folk Music Journalism Day Mark Moss discussed the history of "Sing Out!" and the significance and challenges of folk music journalism over the past six decades. The mid-20th century North American "folk revival" was led, shaped and followed by a myriad of folk music newsletters, magazines and journals. Of these, none was more important, innovative or influential than "Sing Out!" magazine.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2017
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    Great Conversations in Music The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. The four-part series was commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 and produced and directed by Peter Rosen of Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. Filmed between December 2001 and March 2003 at the Library of Congress and the American…
    • Date: 2001

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    Rhythmic Imagination in African Music Renowned musicologist Kofi Agawu lectures on his most recent book, "The African Imagination in Music," with a focus on the chapter about rhythm.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2017
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    Contemporary Music Workshop with Ensemble Intercontemporain Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain led a workshop on performing and interpreting contemporary music as part of "France a la Bibliotheque."
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2015
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    Radio Enchains Music: The 1940 ASCAP Radio War and Music Festivals Drawing on recordings, reviews, photographs, sheet music and materials in the Library's ASCAP Foundation Collection, this lecture argues that the 1940 ASCAP concert sheds new light on the issues of mass culture and radio, protest, race and gender at this reaffirmation of the American popular music canon in the final years before involvement in World War II.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2021
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    The Music of Irving Fine Musicologist Georgia Luikens leads a discussion with composer Martin Boykan and conductor Joel Spiegelman about the music of Irving Fine. Spiegelman studied under Fine at Brandeis University and Boykan held the Fine professorship in composition at Brandeis.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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    Music and Grief: Clinical Perspective Series advisor Kay Redfield Jamison returns with a new presentation based on her forthcoming book, "Nothing Was the Same," a haunting meditation on mortality, grief and loss. She is joined by two other distinguished speakers: Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School, and J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., MD, Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2009
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    Homo-Musicus: How Music Began Ellen Dissayanake discusses "Homo Musicus: How Music Began." The universally observed interaction between mothers and infants, commonly and even dismissively called "baby talk," is composed of proto-aesthetic, temporally-organized elements that Dissayanake suggests are the origin of human music. Because infants are born ready to engage in these encounters and to prefer their visual, vocal and gestural components to any other sight or sound, one…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2008
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    Music 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 they cannot speak? Drawing from more than 30 years of clinical experience and current research into the therapeutic applications of music for persons with acute or chronic health conditions, Concetta Tomaino will…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2010
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    Music in the Lincoln White House Music scholars and Library curators discuss music in the Lincoln White House. Presented in cooperation with the White House Historical Association.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2013
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    Wordless Music Orchestra with Tyondai Braxton Concert by Wordless Music with Tyondai Braxton; Caleb Burhans, conductor.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2011
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    Music and the Brain Lecture Series: Making Music Changes Brains Making music is an intense, multi-sensory and motor experience that is typically initiated at an early age and practiced throughout a musician's lifetime. Emerging research over the years has shown that long-term music making and continuous practice of learned skills can be a strong stimulator for neuroplastic changes in the developing, as well as the adult brain and has positive effects on motion, emotion…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2009
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    Music 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. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2010
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    Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Daniel Hope, Paul Neubauer, David Finckel and Wu Han perform Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor, Schumann's Quartet in E-flat major for piano and strings, op. 47, and Brahms' Quartet in G minor, for piano and strings, op. 25.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2015
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    Chamber Music in 1750 Berlin A lecture with live musical performances from Caitlin McSherry, violin; Daniel Boomhower, violin; Daniel McCarthy, viola; Emily Cantrell, viola; Gozde Yasar, cello; and Daniel Walshaw, theorbo.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2012
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    The Music of Arnold Schoenberg & Milton Babbitt Walter Frisch speaks about the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Milton Babbitt, focusing on the music performed on the Spektral Quartet concert of 3/31/2018, including Schoenberg's first and third string quartets and Babbitt's "The Joy of More Sextets" and "An Encore," composed for violin and piano. The Library of Congress possesses holograph manuscript material related to all of these works.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2018
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    Traditional Classical Persian Music A concert of traditional classical Persian music by Nader Majd & Farshid Mahjour.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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    Technofiles: Music, Technology & the Entrepreneur Panos Panay discusses the intersection of creativity, technology and business. Case Rae discusses issues presenting both challenges and opportunities for creative entrepreneurs in the digital marketplace. David Dufresne, Emilien Moyon, Ethna Schiff and Nick Susi talk about the real-life, first-hand experience of investing in their own ideas while managing their risk.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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    Chamber Music Concert: Daniel Hope & Jeffrey Kahane With longtime chamber music partner Jeffrey Kahane, Daniel Hope returns to the Library to open the concert season in a program of Ravel, Brahms, Muhly and Mendelssohn.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2012
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    Dangerous Music: Suckers, Firestarters, & Cultural Anarchists, Oh My! Norman Middleton and Jessica Krash discuss "dangerous classical music" and marketing, examine the relation between high art and popular art and the mental and emotional intensity of classical music, and journey to the dark side with a discussion of arson and murder associated with heavy metal music and the highly controversial and contemporary issue of music and torture.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress
    • Date: 2009