In addition to Event Videos of Concerts From the Library of Congress, videos of events organized by the Music Division are freely available online.
Event Videos
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Film, VideoNational Film Registry Public Nomination Process Actor, and National Film Preservation Board member Richard Masur discusses how the public can participate in nominating films for the National Film Registry.- Contributor: Masur, Richard
- Date: 2026-01-30
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Film, VideoIsidore String Quartet with Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello The Isidore String Quartet’s meteoric rise to acclaim began with their formation at Juilliard in 2019 and continued with a win at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. A portion of the concert was dedicated to arrangements of music by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms by Isidore’s violist Devin Moore. They then celebrated a…- Contributor: Steele, Adrian - Lee, Nina - Isidore String Quartet - Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A. - Moore, Devin - Amory, Misha - McClendon, Joshua - Avalon, Phoenix
- Date: 2025-12-19
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Film, VideoPre-concert conversation with the Isidore Quartet, Misha Amory and Nina Lee Violist Misha Amory, cellist Nina Lee, and Kenneth Slowik (Curator of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History) are joined by the Music Division’s Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford to discuss their performance with the Isidore Quartet featuring a sextet of rare Stradivari instruments.- Contributor: Slowik, Kenneth - Amory, Misha - Ward-Bamford, Carol Lynn - Lee, Nina
- Date: 2025-12-19
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Film, VideoPre-concert conversation with the Isidore Quartet Members of the Isidore Quartet talk about the experience of playing the Library’s rare Stradivari instruments in a conversation prior to their concert at the Library.The Isidore String Quartet’s meteoric rise to acclaim began with their formation at Juilliard in 2019 and continued with a win at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. A…- Contributor: Steele, Adrian - McLean, Anne - Moore, Devin - McClendon, Joshua - Avalon, Phoenix
- Date: 2025-12-18
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Film, VideoSusan H. Vita Memorial Concert The Library of Congress Music Division presented a concert in memory of former Chief Susan Vita, who led the Music Division from 2005-2025. The program featured performances of repertoire representative of Sue’s legacy and impact at the Library with artists Rosanne Cash, the Borromeo String Quartet, violist Roberto Díaz, and vocalist Shereen Ahmed. Remarks were delivered by Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen, ASCAP…- Contributor: Kalbfleisch, Jon - Díaz, Roberto - Mitchell, Joni - Richie, Lionel - Wiggins, Beacher - Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A. - Strunsky, Lj - Borromeo String Quartet - Eliason, Giulia - Newlen, Robert Randolph ... Kalbfleisch, Jon - Díaz, Roberto - Mitchell, Joni - Richie, Lionel - Wiggins, Beacher - Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A. - Strunsky, Lj - Borromeo String Quartet - Eliason, Giulia - Newlen, Robert Randolph - Kitchen, Nicholas - Yearwood, Trisha - Williams, Paul - Brooks, Garth - Weaver, Thomas - Cash, Rosanne - Hayden, Carla - Ahmed, Shereen
- Date: 2025-11-24
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Film, VideoBeatrice Berrut, pianist The fantastical imagination of composer-pianist Beatrice Berrut draws from the innumerable possibilities of the piano’s sound. Highly regarded for her 2021 recording of Franz Liszt’s late works, Berrut has released several revelatory accounts of Liszt’s music, alongside her latest albums that features some of her own music and transcriptions. The Library holds essential primary source materials for Liszt’s first elegy and his three funeral…- Contributor: Berrut, Beatrice
- Date: 2025-11-22
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Film, VideoPreconcert conversation with Beatrice Berrut Beatrice Berrut (piano) sits down with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres for a pre-concert discussion. The fantastical imagination of composer-pianist Beatrice Berrut draws from the innumerable possibilities of the piano’s sound. Highly regarded for her 2021 recording of Franz Liszt’s late works, Berrut has released a number of revelatory accounts of Liszt’s music, alongside her latest album that features some of her own music and transcriptions.…- Contributor: Berrut, Beatrice - Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas A.
- Date: 2025-11-22
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Film, VideoPre-concert conversation: Théotime Langlois de Swarte In this preconcert conversation, Anne McLean sits down with French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Augusta McKay Lodge, violinist with the eminent French ensemble “Les Arts Florissants.”- Contributor: McLean , Anne - Langlois De Swarte, Théotime - McKay Lodge, Augusta
- Date: 2025-11-21
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Film, VideoThe Stephen Sondheim Collection Famed lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim bequeathed thousands of rare and personal items to the Library of Congress — a staggering historic acquisition which covers decades of Sondheim’s work. The collection includes music and lyric sketches and final “fair copies” for virtually all of Sondheim’s songs. In addition, there are rare recordings, personal correspondences, drafts of plays, screenplays and teleplays Sondheim wrote (or co-wrote),…- Contributor: Horowitz, Mark
- Date: 2025-06-25
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Film, VideoThe Enduring Importance of Jazz Archiving Willard Jenkins presents his research as the 2024-25 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar, focusing on the legacy of pianist, composer, broadcaster, educator, and tireless advocate Dr. Billy Taylor.- Contributor: Jenkins, Willard
- Date: 2025-06-18
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Film, VideoMarvin Gaye: Melancholy and Genius in Black Culture and Media In celebration of Black Music Month, the Music Division in partnership with Live! at the Library welcomed Dr. I. Augustus Durham for a lecture followed by conversation with Music Reference Specialist Morgan Davis. Durham’s lecture entitled “Marvin Gaye: Melancholy and Genius in Black Culture and Media” charted a path through history to discuss the influence of George Gershwin on Marvin Gaye’s film score to…- Contributor: Durham, I. Augustus - Davis, Morgan
- Date: 2025-06-05
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Film, VideoConversation with Judy Collins Famed singer, songwriter and author Judy Collins speaks with the Library’s Susan Vita about her life and work in advance of a performance at the Library of Congress. Topics include her songwriting process, her early performances of Mozart, her introduction to Sondheim’s music, her new book of poetry, “Sometimes It’s Heaven,” and more.- Contributor: Collins, Judy - Vita, Susan H.
- Date: 2025-06-04
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Film, VideoThe Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Participants in the Library’s program “The (Effortless) Now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski” spoke with Libby Smigel about their unique dance event. The panel included pianist Agnese Toniutti, cellist Thomas Kraines, leaders from the Erick Hawkins Dance Company including Katherine Duke and Louis Kavouras, and Dlugoszewski scholar Dustin Hurt, who staged a two-day festival of Dlugoszewski’s music in Philadelphia in May 2025.…- Contributor: Smigel, Libby - Toniutti, Agnese - Hurt, Dustin - Kraines, Thomas - Kavouras, Louis - Duke, Katherine
- Date: 2025-06-03
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Film, VideoConversation with Loadbang, Christopher Otto and Ning Yu Members of loadbang join violinist/composer Christopher Otto, pianist Ning Yu, have a discussion with David Plylar about their concert at the Library. Loadbang, a quartet for bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and baritone voice, performed works by Sebastian Currier, Hilda Paredes, Michael Finnissy, and Laura Cetilia. The works by Currier and Finnissy were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, and the…- Contributor: Yu, Ning - Plylar, David - Kozar, Andy - Otto, Christopher - Bouque, Ty
- Date: 2025-05-30
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Film, VideoConversation with Brigitta Muntendorf and Ning Yu Composer Brigitta Muntendorf and pianist Ning Yu speak with David Plylar about Muntendorf’s Trilogy for two pianos, tape and live electronics. The interview preceded a performance of Trilogy at the Library on May 31, 2025, featuring pianists Ning Yu and Cory Smythe with Levy Lorenzo managing the live electronics. The discussion delved into the processes of composition and performance and how electronics and choreography…- Contributor: Yu, Ning - Plylar, David - Muntendorf, Brigitta
- Date: 2025-05-21
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Film, VideoStageStruck! Session 6: Women, Voice, Power Chaired by Hannah Lewis, this panel featured three lectures: Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Acting Head of the School of Music at the University of Auckland: “I can sing everything from popular music to grand opera”: Deanna Durbin, Power, and Musical Structure Nathan Platte, Associate Professor in Musicology and Film History at the University of Iowa: Behind the Bamboo Tree: Listening to…- Contributor: Camp, Gregory - Platte, Nathan - Lewis, Hannah - Turner, Kristen
- Date: 2025-05-16
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Film, VideoStageStruck! Session 5: Women and Identity Chaired by Elea Proctor, this panel featured four lectures: Amanda Lee Morrill: Every Tudor Rose Has Its Thorns”, PhD student in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University: Whitestream, Mean Girl Feminism in “SIX” Catherine M. Young, Theater Historian: Sex and ‘Stuckness’: The Mobility and Immobilization of Women in “In the Heights” Sam Yates, Resident Dramaturg and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Pennsylvania State University: “Stealing from…- Contributor: Galella, Donatella - Morrill, Amanda Lee - Proctor, Elea - Yates, Sam - Young, Catherine M.
- Date: 2025-05-16
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Film, VideoStageStruck! Session 7: Women in Production, Writing and Marketing Chaired by Alex Bádue, this panel featured three lectures: Dean Adams, Senior Associate Dean of Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Women as Producers of Broadway’s Musicals Samantha Lampe, PhD Candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy Shoshana Greenberg, NYC-based Lyricist and Librettist: Inner City: The Groundbreaking…- Contributor: Bádue, Alex - Lampe, Samantha - Adams, Dean - Greenberg, Shoshana
- Date: 2025-05-16
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Film, VideoStageStruck! Session 8: Women as Directors and Choreographers Chaired by Kelly Kessler, this panel featured three presentations: Laura MacDonald, Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University: American musical theater at Glyndebourne: Diane Paulus’s “Carmen” (2024) Mary Jo Lodge, Professor of Theater and Head of the Theater Department at Lafayette College: The Last (Twenty)Five Years: Women Directors and Director/Choreographers on Broadway Stacy Wolf and Dominic…- Contributor: Kessler, Kelly - Wolf, Stacy - Lodge, Mary Jo - Macdonald, Laura - Broomfield-McHugh, Dominic
- Date: 2025-05-16
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Film, VideoConversation with Jlin Claudia Morales sits down with electronic artist and composer Jerrilyn Patton, professionally known as Jlin. Jlin appeared at the Library and performed a program that included the world premiere of the institution’s first full electronic music commission: A Dance With My Favorite Opponent and Veyari (Sanctum Aeternum). In this conversation, she discusses her creative process, career and musical journey.- Contributor: Patton, Jerrilyn - Morales, Claudia
- Date: 2025-05-15
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Film, VideoJlin Also known as Jerrilyn Patton, Jlin has emerged as an influential contemporary electronic composer whose work transcends musical styles and artistic disciplines. A math enthusiast and former steelworker from Gary, Indiana, she has composed for chamber ensembles such as Kronos Quartet and Third Coast Percussion; created mixes for Björk; and collaborated with choreographer Wayne McGregor, among others. For this performance, Jlin brought her signature…- Contributor: Patton, Jerrilyn
- Date: 2025-05-15
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Film, VideoStagestruck! Session 1: Women of the American Musical Chaired by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, this session featured two lectures: Megan Woller, Director of Liberal Studies and Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Gannon University: “A first rate singing, dancing, entertaining encyclopedia of Musical Comedy”: Sylvia Fine’s “Musical Comedy Tonight” Series Alex Bádue, Assistant Professor of Music at Hamilton College: “Maid for Broadway”: Jeanine Teosori’s Score for “Caroline, or Change” Part of the sixth StageStruck!…- Contributor: Bádue, Alex - Woller, Megan - Broomfield-McHugh, Dominic
- Date: 2025-05-15
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Film, VideoStagestruck! Session 2: Reclaiming Women of the American Musical Chaired by Stacy Wolf, this panel featured three lectures: Sunny Stalter-Pace, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University: Remembering Albertina Rasch Kathryn Edney, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research at Curry College: Beyond Bloody Mary: Researching the Archives for Juanita Hall Becky Potter, San Francisco-based director, teacher, and dramaturg: Trude Rittmann Part of the sixth StageStruck! Conference: “Women and the American Musical,” a…- Contributor: Stalter-Pace, Sunny - Edney, Kathryn - Wolf, Stacy - Potter, Becky
- Date: 2025-05-15
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Film, VideoStagestruck! Session 3: Black Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre Chaired by Michelle Scott (Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County), this panel featured three lectures: Jordan Ealey, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Rochester: The (Drama)turgy of Black Life: Zora Neale Hurston’s Experiments in Sound Elea Proctor, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University: Lessons from the Archive:…- Contributor: Ealey, Jordan - Scott, Michelle - Proctor, Elea
- Date: 2025-05-15
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Film, VideoStageStruck! Session 4: Women on Screen Chaired by Colleen Montgomery, this panel featured four lectures: Virginia Jansen, PhD student in Musicology at the University of California, Davis: “Strife! And Tribulation!”: Refiguring gender and race in America’s “Golden Age” of musical theater through the women of “Schmigadoon” Kelly Kessler, Professor of Media and Popular Culture at DePaul University: From the Teachers’ Lounge to Television: American Musical Theater and the Forgotten Small…- Contributor: Montgomery, Colleen - Kessler, Kelly - Jansen, Virginia - Lewis, Hannah - McLean, Adrienne
- Date: 2025-05-15