NOTE: “‘A program not greatly to their credit’: Finding New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society through the American Memory Sheet Music Collection” was the title of Nancy Newman’s Library of Congress lecture on 22 April 2014, cosponsored by the American Musicological Society. Library of Congress webcast page… Read More
by William F. Prizer James Pruett(1932–2014)Chief, Music Division, Library of CongressProfessor of Music, UNC Chapel HillPhoto: Arthur Feller NOTE: I post this essay, adapted from the August 2014 Newsletter of the American Musicological Society, p. 39, owing to our… Read More
Note: The next installment of the AMS-Library of Congress Lecture Series will be on 7 October in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. Carol Hess’s lecture is titled “Copland as Good Neighbor: Cultural Diplomacy in Latin America during World II.” Prof. Hess writes: Scholars and the general public… Read More
Kendra Preston Leonard: “Meaning and Myth in Louise Talma’s First Period Works” The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the Library of Congress present lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the Division’s collections. In the most… Read More
by Mark Clague An aesthetic that spotlights the spontaneity of performance and invites infinite arrangement might seem strange territory for a scholarly edition. The music of George and Ira Gershwin finds inspiration, for example, at the intersections of jazz, blues, Tin Pan Alley, and the Broadway stage. While George’s forays… Read More
by Kendra Preston Leonard On September 24 at the Library of Congress, I’ll give a talk on American composer Louise Talma (c. 1906–1996), her youth, and her first composition. At the same time, I’ll be putting the finishing touches on my book about Talma and her works (Ashgate, forthcoming 2014). Read More