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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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    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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • 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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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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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    Traditional Classical Persian Music. A concert of traditional classical Persian music by Nader Majd & Farshid Mahjour.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2014
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2017
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    Curtis Contemporary Music Ensemble videorecording | videorecording ; 88 min | 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. (Content). Recorded March 15, 2010 (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2010
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    Great conversations: chamber music videorecording | 1 digibeta videotape; duration: 41 min., 45 sec. | Istomin and his colleagues violinists Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt; cellists Lynn Harrell and Sharon Robinson; and pianists Claude Frank and Joseph Kalichstein talk about a range of topics, including the essence of the string quartet, how friendships develop from playing chamber music, and the manner in which chamber musicians exchange ideas....
    • Contributor: Kalichstein, Joseph - Robinson, Sharon - Istomin, Eugene - Steinhardt, Arnold - Rosen, Peter - Harrell, Lynn - Laredo, Jaime - Warshaw, Hilan - Peter Rosen Productions, Inc - Frank, Claude - Frank, Pamela
    • Date: 2005
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2009
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    NLS Music Materials Patrons discuss musical-related resources available from the music section of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (formerly National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) in the Library of Congress. These materials are available to people who are blind, have a visual impairment, or have a physical disability that prevents them from using regular print materials.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2016
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Ledward Kaapana: Hawaiian Music. Master Hawaiian slack key guitarist, ukelele player and vocalist Ledward Kaapana performs in concert.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
    • Date: 2008
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2012
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    Music of Morton Subotnick motion picture | 1 videorecording ; 74 min. | Friday, November 9, 2012, 8:00 PM (Date). Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Venue). The Other Piano ( III. Many, IV. Rocking) -- Trembling -- Lucy: Song and Dance / Subotnick. (Content). 16:9 All material used by permission of the composer. (Copyright Notice). Motion Picture (Form).
    • Contributor: La Barbara, Joan - Supove ́, Kathleen - Lillevan - Subotnick, Morton - Reynolds, Todd
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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 - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
    • Date: 2008
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    International exposition music motion picture | videorecording; 8 min. | 16:9 Motion Picture (Form).
    • Contributor: Barton, Matthew
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    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Discussion Stephen and Jackie Newbould of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group join the Library's Nicholas Brown to discuss the work of the ensemble, Oliver Knussen and their unique Sound Investment commissioning scheme.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Conversation with Hub New Music The musicians of Hub New Music and composer Carlos Simon discuss their performance on the concert series. The discussion focuses on Carlos Simon's new work, "Requiem for the Enslaved", and other works by Steven Mackey and Takuma Itoh.
    • Contributor: Plylar, David - Christeson, Jesse - Wang, Alyssa - Hub New Music - Brown, Nicholas - Avitabile, Michael - Simon, Carlos
    • Date: 2021-11-05
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    Kandace Springs Trio: Music Styles Kandace Springs Trio demonstrate different music styles including jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and pop.
    • Contributor: Moore, Taylor - Bryant, Caylen - Springs, Kandace
    • Date: 2021-05-21
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    Is Israeli Classical Music Jewish? The music of Israel is a unique combination of Jewish and non-Jewish traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. Immigrants from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere brought with them their musical traditions, melding and molding them into a new Israeli sound that helped define the emerging national spirit. Ronit Seter, a scholar...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2009
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    Wordless Music Orchestra with Tyondai Braxton Concert by Wordless Music with Tyondai Braxton; Caleb Burhans, conductor.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2011
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    Malawi Music with Giddes Chalamanda The 86-year-old Malawian musician, Giddes Chalamanda, performed his music for the first time in America at the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2016