The Library of Congress has partnered with the national tour of “The Sound of Music” on a first-of-its-kind collaboration that brings rare archival materials from the iconic musical directly to ...
It's the Library's first collection from a Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree. By Paul Grein The Library of Congress has acquired the papers of the late composer Burt Bacharach. This is the first ...
Other new inductees include Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and Taylor Swift's '1989.' ...
Last week, the Library of Congress unveiled the 2025 additions to its National Recording Registry, which aims to collect recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically important.” If you ...
(DM) Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden named GRAMMY-winning Motown artist Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker's 1975 recording "I've Got The Music In Me" along with 24 other audio treasures worthy of ...
In an attempt to reconstruct nearly lost, illegible and unpublished jazz scores, University of Idaho music professor Al Gemberling will work with the Library of Congress on the library’s “I Hear ...
The Library of Congress Summer Research Fellowship Program is an annual initiative sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center for Popular Music Studies, with generous financial support from ...
Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and the Hamilton original cast album were among the 25 sound recordings that were entered into the Library of Congress’ National ...
When Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist at the Library of Congress, created a show-and-tell of the Library's music collection for Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim back in May of 1993, he ...
Hickerson helped co-wrote two additional verses of the Pete Seeger folk classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" By Gil Kaufman Joe Hickerson, a singer-songwriter who served as the lead archivist ...