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Live! at the Library: Celebrate the Treasures of a Nation featuring Natalie Merchant

Library of Congress 2024-05-22 | Join online for a celebratory concert featuring Natalie Merchant to mark the opening of the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery. Enjoy a selection of Natalie’s favorite works as well as a snapshot of some of the Library’s greatest treasures.

George Takei Shares “My Lost Freedom”

Library of Congress 2024-05-20 | Award-winning author, actor and civil rights advocate George Takei discusses his new book, "My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story." What happens when the world as you know it disappears? In 1942, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared anyone of Japanese descent living on the West Coast to be an enemy of the United States. Four-year-old George Takei and his family were American in every way, but because of their Japanese ancestry, they were removed from their home in California and forced into camps with thousands of similar families. Learn about Takei's childhood as an enemy in his own country and his adulthood as a beloved icon.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11334

George Takei Shares His Story

Library of Congress 2024-05-20 | Advocate/actor George Takei spoke with students about the treatment of ethnic Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II and is own personal experiences during that time, beginning at age four.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11333

Lets Talk Books with Jarrett Krosoczka

Library of Congress 2024-05-17 | National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Meg Medina is joined by award-winning author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka (creator of the Lunch Lady and Jedi Academy series) in the next episode of "Let's Talk Books!" #shorts

Lets Talk Books with Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Library of Congress 2024-05-17 | Wendy Wan-Long Shang ("The Way Home Looks Now," "The Secret Battle of Evan Pao") showed us how fun and easy it is to talk about books. When Wendy discusses "You Are Here: Connecting Flights," an anthology edited by Ellen Oh, she can't help sharing her love-hate relationship with airports and her fascination with libraries. #shorts

Lets Talk Books with Jarrett Krosoczka

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Meg Medina is joined by award-winning author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka (creator of the Lunch Lady and Jedi Academy series) in this episode of "Let's Talk Books!" Jarrett shares some of his favorite books from childhood (shout out to Beverly Cleary!), talks about the importance of reading books' imagery and opens up about finding the courage to write about his past.

The Nixon Impeachment Inquiry: The Legacy of the Inquiry

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | The Library's John W. Kluge Center hosted the staff of the 1974 inquiry into the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon for a public event marking the inquiry's 50th anniversary. In this first panel discussion, participants discussed the continuing legacy of the inquiry and its work.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11332

The Nixon Impeachment Inquiry: How It Was to Be There

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | The Library's John W. Kluge Center hosted the staff of the 1974 inquiry into the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon for a public event marking the inquiry's 50th anniversary. In this second panel discussion, participants discussed what it was like working on the inquiry, as well as what brought them to that point in their lives and careers.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11331

Catawba Cartographies: Remapping the Indigenous Southeast, ca. 1670-1733

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | S. Max Edelson, professor of history at the University of Virginia, makes a case that the Catawba Deerskin Map sought to correct errors observed on English cartography and suggest a new political geography for the region.

English colonizers arrived in Kiawah -- the Cusabo Indian region on the southeastern coast of North America -- in 1670. To promote their new colony, the Lords Proprietors of Carolina commissioned maps to proclaim English sovereignty, attract colonists and reveal Indigenous people and places beyond the Atlantic coast. The view of the Native world presented on these maps was deeply distorted. Did Native Carolinians see these maps? If so, how did they react to them? In the 1720s, the Catawbas presented South Carolina's governor with a painted deerskin showing Indigenous and European settlements in the region.

This lecture is part of the Philip Lee Phillips Society 2024 Spring Presentation on Indigenous Cartography, co-sponsored by the Washington Map Society.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11330

Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | Lauren Beck, Canada research chair in intercultural encounter and professor of visual and material culture studies at Mount Allison University, Canada, examines extractive naming practices using exploration narratives and associated cartography from the 16th-18th centuries alongside Indigenous historical sources.

Extractive place naming practices come in several forms in early modern North America. The first reflects European attempts to obtain Indigenous toponymy, whether for cultural caché, wayfinding or for understanding where the resources they described might be found. Yet language barriers prevented people such as Columbus and Cartier from extracting place names, which gave rise to misnaming. A second extractive naming practice awarded names relating to resources linked to locales where those resources had been confirmed to exist. This naming practice for describing what sort of resources one would encounter in a place was deployed differently by both Indigenous and European peoples. A third practice, which Europeans did not embrace, involved place stories that forewarned how one could move through, interact with, and care for the resources of a landscape.

This lecture is part of the Philip Lee Phillips Society 2024 Spring Presentation on Indigenous Cartography, co-sponsored by the Washington Map Society.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11329

Marc-André Hamelin: Nightcap Conversation with the Artist

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | Pianist Marc-André Hamelin speaks with David Plylar of the Music Division about his performance at the Library. The program included Charles Ives’ “Concord” Sonata, Schumann’s Waldszenecn, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and the world premiere of Hamelin’s own work—a mazurka—a new Library of Congress commission in honor of the 100th anniversary of Concerts from the Library of Congress.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11328

Jewish-American Veterans Voice Holocaust Remembrance Day

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | Join the Veterans History Project and Department of Veterans Affairs for a commemoration of Jewish-American military service on Holocaust Remembrance Day, featuring speakers from the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as a Medal of Honor recipient.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11327

A Night at the Adams: 85th Anniversary Celebration

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | View this celebration the 85th anniversary of the Art Deco and Beaux-Arts inspired John Adams Building of the Library of Congress.

For more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11326

Celebrating the NAACP Records at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress 2024-05-15 | Since 1964 the Library of Congress Manuscript Division has served as the home of the historical records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Now totaling approximately four million items, the NAACP Records are the largest single collection ever acquired by the Library and ranks annually among the most heavily used by researchers. The NAACP Records are the cornerstone of the Library’s unparalleled resources for the study of the twentieth-century civil rights movement. The records were among the collections identified by the Library in a multiyear funding request to Congress to support the essential work necessary to make unprocessed special format materials available to the public.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY). As a civil rights attorney she has litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. Professor Browne-Marshall is the author of many articles, plays, and books, including "She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power", "The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts", and "Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to the Present". She is a legal commentator who covers the United States Supreme Court and major cases, with appearances on CNN, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, and CBS, and is a recipient of an NAACP Community Service Award.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11325

Lets Talk Books with Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Library of Congress 2024-05-14 | In the inaugural video of National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Meg Medina's new series, author Wendy Wan-Long Shang ("The Way Home Looks Now," "The Secret Battle of Evan Pao") shows us how fun and easy it is to talk about books. When Wendy discusses "You Are Here: Connecting Flights," an anthology edited by Ellen Oh, she can't help sharing her love-hate relationship with airports and her fascination with libraries.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11324

He Came, He Saw, He Concord: Technique and Texture in the Music of Ives and Ravel

Library of Congress 2024-05-08 | David Plylar of the Music Division speaks about piano technique and textures in the “Concord” Sonata of Charles Ives and Gaspard de la nuit of Maurice Ravel. The lecture includes a number of examples drawn from the program given by Marc-André Hamelin later that evening.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11322

Les Violons du Roy: Conversation with the Artists

Library of Congress 2024-05-08 | Executive Director Laurent Patenaude and Lead Violist Isaac Chalk of Les Violons du Roy speak with David Plylar of the Music Division about their ensemble and the evening’s program. The concert included guitarist Miloš in a program of Vivaldi, Marcello, J.S. Bach, Geminiani, and others.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11319

Kronos Quartet: Nightcap Conversation with the Artists

Library of Congress 2024-05-08 | Members of the Kronos Quartet -- David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola) and Paul Wiancko (cello) -- spoke with the Library's David Plylar following their performance at the Library, presented in celebration of their 50-year anniversary. They also announced at the that the Kronos Quartet archive will be coming to the Library of Congress.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11314

You Are Here Launch and Mary Oliver Event with Ada Limón

Library of Congress 2024-05-08 | The kickoff event for the U.S. Poet Laureate’s signature project, including the publication of the new anthology “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World,” and the kickoff of the Library’s annual Mary Oliver Memorial Event. Featuring Ada Limón with poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo and Paul Tran. The poets are supported by the Library’s new Mary Oliver Memorial Fund, a gift from Bill and Amalie Reichblum, members of the Library’s James Madison Council.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11313

Powerful Art Collaborations: Artists & Cultural Leaders in Conversation

Library of Congress 2024-05-07 | Celebrated artists Helen C. Frederick and Phil Sanders and cultural leaders Juanita and Mel Hardy will discuss the powerful benefits of collaborative art and ways to leverage artists’ stories that expand fresh American narratives. Known for nurturing collaboration with other creators and creative communities, Frederick founded Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center and co-founded Navigation Press. Sanders is the author of Prints and Their Makers and former director/master printer at the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Working with an inclusive roster of artists, Millennium Arts Salon founders and noted art collectors Juanita and Mel Hardy have advanced cultural literacy through thoughtful, impactful art programming with the Phillips Collection, DC Arts Center, The Driskell Center at the University of Maryland College Park, George Mason University, the Brandywine Workshop, and others.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11312

An Evening with George Saunders

Library of Congress 2024-05-07 | At this event, 2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner George Saunders will give the annual lecture associated with the Prize, followed by a conversation with the Library's Literary Director Clay Smith. George Saunders is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the Way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11311

Collecting Survivals: Sapelo Island Georgia and the Search for Gullah Folk

Library of Congress 2024-05-01 | Melissa Cooper, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark Noted historian Melissa Cooper, who specializes in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history and the history of the African Diaspora, discusses her research on the emergence of "the Gullah" in scholarly and popular works beginning in the 1920s and the 1930s. Using Georgia as a case study, Dr. Cooper explores the forces that initially inspired interest in Black southerners’ African heritage and the legacies of early research and publications that made Sapelo Islanders famous, including historic fieldwork and documentation materials that are now part of the AFC Archive. The Botkin Lecture series is part of AFC's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines; foregrounding its archival holdings; and fulfilling its congressionally mandated mission.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11308

Conversation with Melissa Cooper

Library of Congress 2024-05-01 | Nancy Groce and Douglas Peach of the American Folklife Center sit down with Melissa Cooper, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark Noted historian Melissa Cooper, who specializes in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history and the history of the African Diaspora, discusses her research on the emergence of "the Gullah" in scholarly and popular works beginning in the 1920s and the 1930s. Using Georgia as a case study, Dr. Cooper explores the forces that initially inspired interest in Black southerners’ African heritage and the legacies of early research and publications that made Sapelo Islanders famous, including historic fieldwork and documentation materials that are now part of the AFC Archive. The Botkin Lecture series is part of AFC's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines; foregrounding its archival holdings; and fulfilling its congressionally mandated mission.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11307

Conversation with Benjamin J. Harbert

Library of Congress 2024-05-01 | Dr. Nancy Groce and Jesse Hawkin of the American Folklife Center sit down with Benjamin J. Harbert, Professor of Music and Chair of the Performing Arts Department, Georgetown University. Benjamin J. Harbert is an ethnomusicologist and author of the book “Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Oxford University Press, 2023). The book and his recent documentary on the same topic, “Follow Me Down,” were the subjects of his talk at the Library. Angola Prison is the largest and one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, built into a slave plantation that Louisiana bought in 1901. It has also been the most musically significant. Harbert’s work chronicles dozens of musicians and bands over 120 years, showing how music is a vital resource for prisoners. That resource, however, is conditional, as the administration uses music in many ways. The history of this musical dialogue offers a unique perspective on incarceration, politics, and the development of music in the twentieth-century American South. In particular, this lecture will highlight the musical, political, and intellectual role of jazz in the prison, from the 1950s through the 1960s, and reference historic fieldwork materials that are now housed the American Folklife Center Archive. The Botkin Lecture series is part of AFC's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines; foregrounding its archival holdings; and fulfilling its congressionally mandated mission.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11306

Constitution Day: Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan

Library of Congress 2024-04-26 | University of Buffalo School of Law Professor Samantha Barbas discusses the roots of the U.S. Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan decision which created the "actual malice" standard that a public figure must prove in a successful suit for defamation. Professor Barbas's lecture focuses on describing the origins of the New York Times v. Sullivan decision in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11077

Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisianas Angola Prison

Library of Congress 2024-04-25 | Benjamin J. Harbert is an ethnomusicologist and author of the book “Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Oxford University Press, 2023). The book and his recent documentary on the same topic, “Follow Me Down,” will be the subjects of his talk. Angola Prison is the largest and one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, built into a slave plantation that Louisiana bought in 1901. It has also been the most musically significant. Harbert’s work chronicles dozens of musicians and bands over 120 years, showing how music is a vital resource for prisoners. That resource, however, is conditional, as the administration uses music in many ways. The history of this musical dialogue offers a unique perspective on incarceration, politics, and the development of music in the twentieth-century American South. In particular, this lecture will highlight the musical, political, and intellectual role of jazz in the prison, from the 1950s through the 1960s, and reference historic fieldwork materials that are now housed the American Folklife Center Archive. The Botkin Lecture series is part of AFC's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines; foregrounding its archival holdings; and fulfilling its congressionally mandated mission.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11304

Rhapsody In Blue at 100 – 3 minute version

Library of Congress 2024-04-24 | George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" turned 100 on Feb. 12, 2024. First performed in New York, it has become a motif of the nation's creative spirit. The Library of Congress, home to George and Ira Gershwin's papers, presents this short tribute video from performers around the country, from dancers and pianists, from a high school orchestra and a pro football player, from New York to Los Angeles, in showcasing the timeless brilliance of "Rhapsody."

Participants included School Without Walls (Washington, DC), Béla Fleck (Nashville TN), OrchKids/Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra/Jonathon Heyward (Baltimore MD), Baltimore Ravens Justin Tucker (Owings Mills MD), Arrowhead Jazz Band/New Orleans Baby Dolls (New Orleans LA), Luray Caverns/Otto Pebworth (Luray VA), Chris Ullman (Washington DC), Nashville Symphony/Byron Stripling/Tony DeSare (Nashville TN), Nick Fabian (Nashville TN), Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Florida), Kat Meoz (Los Angeles CA), Ricardo Morales (Philadelphia PA), Caleb Teicher (New York NY), Footage from Fantasia 2000 (Disney Enterprises Inc.), José André Montaño (Library of Congress, Washington DC),Potomac Fever/Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington DC), GMCW: Director: Thea Kano/Arranged by Raymond Rinaldo (Washington DC) and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Wayne Marshall (Baltimore MD).

Also available at loc.gov/item/webcast-11243

The Múscraí Singing Tradition of County Cork, Ireland

Library of Congress 2024-04-24 | Cormac Ó hAodha is the current Lomax Scholar – Lovelace Fellow at the Kluge Center and comes from Cúil Aodha, which is a village in the Múscraí Gaeltacht of Co. Cork in Ireland. He is conducting extensive research in the archive of the American Folklife Center on the Alan Lomax Collection here at the Library of Congress, which includes material Lomax collected some 73 years ago from singers in the Múscraí singing tradition, the same singing tradition he grew up in and is a part of. He will discuss his current project, which focuses on the preservation, publication, availability and sharing of intangible Irish creative heritage, specifically of the Irish song tradition of his native Múscraí in Co. Cork. His research is aimed at digital discoverability and preservation in a global web environment for scholars and citizens alike leading ultimately to ‘Digital Return’ of archival records to the communities from which they were originally collected. As well as being an academic and a researcher, Cormac Ó hAodha is himself a singer in this tradition and will perform several songs during this lecture/performance. The Botkin Lecture series is part of AFC's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines; foregrounding its archival holdings; and fulfilling its congressionally mandated mission.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11303

Conversation with Jordi Savall

Library of Congress 2024-04-23 | The Music Division’s Claudia Morales sits down with Jordi Savall, a world-renowned viol player, conductor, and musical scholar, has devoted his career to reviving and interpreting the vast repertoire of early music. His profound understanding of historical contexts and his virtuosity on the viol make him a luminary in the world of period performance.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11301

Poet Robyn Schiff with Ron Charles

Library of Congress 2024-04-18 | Robyn Schiff, author of Information Desk: An Epic, will talk with Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles about her work. Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Worth (University of Iowa Press, 2002), Revolver (University of Iowa Press, 2008), A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), and Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and was an Editor's Choice at The New York Times. A Professor at the University of Chicago, Schiff co-edits Canarium Books, an independent small press dedicated to publishing exceptional books of poetry and was the recipient of the 2023 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11300

Chasing Flavor with Chef Carla Hall

Library of Congress 2024-04-18 | Chef and best-selling author Carla Hall, of “Top Chef” and “The Chew,” explores the unexpected roots of popular dishes in American food culture on her new, original Max series “Chasing Flavor." In the series, Hall travels to Italy, Ghana, Turkey, Mexico and more, tracing history, foodways, and cultural diaspora to tell the stories of mainstays such as ice cream, barbecue and chicken pot pie. At this Live! at the Library event, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden sits down with Carla Hall to talk about the new series “Chasing Flavor” and her latest work as an author.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11299

Conversation with Arturo OFarrill

Library of Congress 2024-04-18 | Arturo O'Farrill, Multi-Grammy Award winner, pianist, composer, bandleader, and founder and artistic director of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance, sits down with Claudia Morales of the Library’s Music Division. O'Farrill's mastery of composition and performance has garnered him recognition on the global stage, solidifying his place as a trailblazer in the world of jazz.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11298

Conversation with Sō Percussion

Library of Congress 2024-04-16 | Music Division's Claudia Morales sits down with members of Sō Percussion; Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Cha-Beach. They engage in conversation prior to their performance at the historic Coolidge Auditorium. Together, they discuss their musical journey, their music experience in Africa and the creative process with composers such as Angélica Negrón and Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11295

Moments of Silence in Modern Thai History: The Unforgetting of October 6, 1976

Library of Congress 2024-04-16 | Thongchai Winichakul is a world-famous Asianist whose work has won numerous prestigious awards and been translated into many languages. His writings are found on syllabi at top universities around the world. He actively publishes in both English and Thai, making him one of a very few public Southeast Asianist intellectuals publishing in a Southeast Asian language and English, giving his work a larger impact across Asia and the West. His latest work, Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok, focuses on challenging the culture of impunity, political violence, and weakness of the rule of law in modern Thailand and is vital to our times. It is extremely relevant not just for current crises in Southeast Asia, but for any liberal democracy the world over. It explores the silence around the 1976 Thammasat University massacre that killed over 40 students by Thai police, the military, and militias. This massacre was supported by and involved the Monarchy and Thai Buddhist Sangha (Order of Monks), thus rendering it unable to ever be prosecuted. Part of Thongchai’s work has been to explore the culture and ideology in Thailand that enables a powerful culture of impunity, especially at the intersection of Buddhism and politics. In this case, Buddhist notions of reconciliation and forgiveness are often employed to halt pursuit of justice in a legal setting but instead maintain a Thai cultural value of harmony that is abused by those in power. In the face of the decline of liberal democracy across Southeast Asia and beyond, with a major locus in Thailand since the 2006 and 2014 coups, Dr. Thonghchai’s talk informs us of the continuing need for human rights, rule of law, accountability, social justice, truth and legal recourse for victims of political violence, even from the highest levels of societies.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11297

GHOSTS with Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza and Rebecca Wisocky

Library of Congress 2024-04-16 | Cast members from CBS's hit comedy GHOSTS came to the Library of Congress on April 9th for a special episode screening and a panel discussion with series stars Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza and Rebecca Wisocky. GHOSTS, currently in its third season, is comedy about a couple who inherited Woodstone Mansion in Upstate New York, only to find it was inhabited by many spirits of deceased residents from various time periods. The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group whose individual histories span various time periods. Among them are a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer, Alberta (Pinnock), an upbeat '80s scout troop leader, Pete (Moriarty), a slick '90s finance bro, Trevor (Grodman), a witty 16th century Native American, Sasappis (Zaragoza) and a society woman and wife of a 19th century Robber Baron, Hetty (Wisocky).

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11296

Joel ben Simeon, the Washington Haggadah and the Ambivalent Feminine

Library of Congress 2024-04-16 | The Talmud tells us " because of the merit of righteous women, our ancestors were redeemed from Egypt". Thus women are often prominently featured in the illustrations of medieval haddagot - illuminated texts for the Seder, the home service for Passover. The Library of Congress' magnificent Washington Haggadah, written and illuminated in 1478 by the well-known Jewish scribe and artist Joel ben Simeon, is no exception. The Washington Haggadah features five feminine figures. Who are these women and why do they appear in ambivalent contexts?

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11294

2024 National Recording Registry Announcement

Library of Congress 2024-04-16 | Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has revealed the 25 new additions to the 2024 Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Watch this announcement featuring interviews with inductees including as Green Day, Blondie, Doug E. Fresh, the legendary Booker T. Jones, with music from Juan Gabriel, Abba and the Notorious B.I.G.

For more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11293

Goldmund Quartet Concert

Library of Congress 2024-04-15 | Prizewinners in the prestigious Wigmore Hall and Melbourne quartet competitions, Germany’s Goldmund Quartet is praised for its intense musicality and “beautiful sound, elegant and transparent” (Gramophone). Since 2019 the Goldmunds have performed on the famous “Paganini Quartet:” remarkably well-matched instruments made by Antonio Stradivari that were selected by the violinist Niccolò Paganini for his own chamber music performances. The “Mendelssohn” viola’s deeply resonant tone inspired Paganini to commission a concerto for it, Hector Berlioz’s Harold in Italy. Enjoy the experience of hearing these superb instruments in selections from the Goldmund’s concert at the Library: quartets by Haydn and Schumann, and a bonus encore of Dvořák’s Humoresque.

Program:
[0:26] Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D minor, op. 76/2, HIII:76
[22:28] Robert Schumann: Quartet no. 3 in A major, op. 41/3
[54:35] Antonín Dvořák: Humoresque, op.101/7, arranged for string quartet

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11292

Northern Resonance, Scandinavian Roots Music String Trio

Library of Congress 2024-04-15 | Northern Resonance is a Scandinavian string trio rooted in traditional folk music. They perform traditional and newly composed roots music on a previously untested combination of instruments: viola d’amore, hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa. They combine Scandinavian music with explosive rhythms and grand chamber-like arrangements, taking folk music in a new direction. The members of Northern Resonance are highly skilled and accomplished musicians, and they share an intense musical connection that is rare to come across. There is great life in their tunes, and the trio knows how to bring it out. The debut Northern Resonance album, released in 2020, introduced their glorious sound and impressed a broad audience worldwide. The album was nominated for a Swedish Grammy. The trio released their second album in January 2024.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11291

Conversation with Northern Resonance, Scandinavian Roots Music String Trio

Library of Congress 2024-04-15 | The three members of Northern Resonance speak with Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center. Northern Resonance is a Scandinavian string trio rooted in traditional folk music. They perform traditional and newly composed roots music on a previously untested combination of instruments: viola d’amore, hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa. They combine Scandinavian music with explosive rhythms and grand chamber-like arrangements, taking folk music in a new direction. The members of Northern Resonance are highly skilled and accomplished musicians, and they share an intense musical connection that is rare to come across. There is great life in their tunes, and the trio knows how to bring it out. The debut Northern Resonance album, released in 2020, introduced their glorious sound and impressed a broad audience worldwide. The album was nominated for a Swedish Grammy. The trio released their second album in January 2024.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11290

The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492

Library of Congress 2024-04-12 | Join the John W. Kluge Center and Jay I. Kislak Chair Marcy Norton for an exploration of the historical roots of a contemporary paradox: Why do some animals become food and other animals become pets? In her new book “The Tame and the Wild,” Norton shows that after 1492 Indigenous and European ways of relating to animals transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic. In this event, she will discuss how Europeans’ treatment of livestock connected to their fears about demonic witches, and how Indigenous animal-taming practices bewildered and bewitched the colonizers.

For transcript and more information, visit loc.gov/item/webcast-11280

Exploring two great violins: Nicolò Amati & Antonio Stradivari Violins in early & modern setups

Library of Congress 2024-04-12 | Curator Carol Lynn Ward Bamford and violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved explore two great violins from the collection of the Library of Congress, on by Nicolo Amati, the other by Antonio Stradivari. Each violin offers a different window on the past. Both instruments date from the 16-1700s; however one is in a modern configuration, the other in baroque 'setup'. What do these quite different instruments, and setups, reveal about the 17th century music played on them here, about the characters of their makers?

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Introduction to The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

Library of Congress 2024-04-12 | 2024 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar Sam Stephenson speaks about his involvement in the study of photographer W. Eugene Smith, which resulted in a book and a film called The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith. His talk preceded a screening of the film, which was produced in part by Dan Logan and the Revada Foundation. Th Revada Foundation has underwritten most jazz programming at the Library of Congress for the last nine years.

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‘You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World’ Kickoff with Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Friends

Library of Congress 2024-04-05 | Watch the kickoff event for the U.S. Poet Laureate’s signature project, including the publication of the new anthology “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World,” and the kickoff of the Library’s annual Mary Oliver Memorial Event. Featuring Ada Limón with poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo and Paul Tran. The poets are supported by the Library’s new Mary Oliver Memorial Fund, a gift from Bill and Amalie Reichblum, members of the Library’s James Madison Council. The Fund is established, in part, to recognize talented emerging poets.

Packing for A Solar Eclipse Expedition in the Late 1800s

Library of Congress 2024-04-04 | In the 19th century, scientists increasingly embarked on world-spanning expeditions to view solar eclipses. The Library has thousands of resources documenting these epic journeys, from captivating photos, to personal diaries, to letters and detailed reports. In the Prints & Photographs Division, one photo album offers a glimpse of what life was like for an expedition of over 400 scientists, researchers, and sailors during an arduous 1889 journey to coastal Angola, on board the U.S.S. Pensacola. Here is what they packed on that expedition to view a solar eclipse, over a century ago.

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Diaries from Solar Eclipse Expeditions in the 1800s and Early 1900s

Library of Congress 2024-04-03 | For thousands of years, people have been fascinated by solar eclipses, often traveling far distances to see the fleeting phenomenon. By the 1800s, scientists increasingly embarked on more elaborate expeditions to view solar eclipses, taking everything from trains, war ships, camels and even birch bark canoes. Two Library specialists, head of science reference JJ Harbster and historian Joshua Levy, pulled from the Library’s collections numerous diaries and letters written by scientists in expedition groups, trekking across the world to view solar eclipses during the mid-1800s and early 1900s. One item discussed was a tiny pocket diary from 1860, owned by renown astronomer Simon Newcomb, in which he chronicles his 5 week journey through the Canadian wilderness to view a solar eclipse … only to miss it. Here is what the journals reveal about the scientists’ experiences.

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Jean and Marcus Baylor: Conversation with the Artists

Library of Congress 2024-04-02 | Music Division's Claudia Morales sits down with songwriter, producer, and vocalist Jean Baylor and percussionist, songwriter, bandleader, and producer Marcus Baylor of the seven-time GRAMMY-nominated and NAACP IMAGE AWARD, The Baylor Project. They engage in conversation prior to their performance at the historic Coolidge Auditorium. Together, they discuss music, community, music business, and more.

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Conversation with Gershwin Honoree Bernie Taupin

Library of Congress 2024-03-29 | In a conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, 2024 Gershwin Prize honoree and award-winning lyricist Bernie Taupin talked about his life, his career, and his long association with co-honoree Elton John during an evening program in the historic Thomas Jefferson Building.

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Anna Sokolow & the Reimagined Roots of Anti-fascist Dance

Library of Congress 2024-03-28 | Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble’s Artistic Director Samantha Géracht introduced the story of restoring early activist dances of American choreographer Anna Sokolow in a program of performances, panel discussion and movement as demonstration. When the Library of Congress Music Division made the extraordinary discovery of handwritten scores composed by Alex North for two of Sokolow’s dances, Géracht reimagined the dances using archival evidence and the music. Ballad in a Popular Style is a wistful lyrical excursion into jazz first performed in 1936. Slaughter of the Innocents is Sokolow’s 1937 lament for Basque women suffering under Nazi aerial bombing. Both were performed by members of the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble to the original scores for the first time in 80 years, showing that the creative collaboration of Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) and Alex North (1910-1991) remains fresh, compelling, and relevant for today’s audiences. A panel discussion of the revival of the music and dance and the lives of North and Sokolow was followed by an audience Q&A session

Participants
Samantha Géracht, Artistic Director, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
James May, Founding Director, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
Eleanor Bunker, Associate Artistic Director, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
Lauren Naslund, Associate Artistic Director, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
Ilana Ruth Cohen, Erin Gottwald, & Margherita Tisato, Dancers
Lakey Evans-Peña, Associate Director, Ailey School Horton Pedagogy
Abby North, Music Rights ad Publishing Professional, Unchained Melody Publishing LLC
& North Music Group LLC
Libby Smigel, Music Division

Program:

[0:00] Introduction
Libby Smigel

[8:27] Slaughter of the Innocents, solo version
Choreography: Samantha Géracht (after Anna Sokolow)
Music: Alex North/Kevin Kaska
Dancer: Margherita Tisato

[15:29] Building the Choreography for Slaughter of the Innocents
Samantha Géracht
Erin Gottwald, dancer

[24:42] Discovering the Scores and Working with Abby North to Record Them

[30:44] Slaughter of the Innocents, trio version
Choreography: Samantha Géracht (after Anna Sokolow)
Music: Alex North/Kevin Kaska
Dancers: Ilana Ruth Cohen, Erin Gottwald, & Margherita Tisato

[37:39] Introduction to Rebuilding Ballad in a Popular Style
Samantha Géracht

[42:48] Ballad in a Popular Style
Choreography: Eleanor Bunker & Samantha Géracht (after Anna Sokolow)
Music: Alex North/Kevin Kaska
Dancer: Ilana Ruth Cohen

[47:56] Panel Discussion

Credits:
Slaughter of the Innocents, solo and trio versions
Choreography: Samantha Géracht
Based upon Barbara Morgan’s photographs of Anna Sokolow dancing her Slaughter of the Innocents
(premiered 1937, retitled Madrid and revised in 1943)
Music: Alex North (original score)
Arrangement: Kevin Kaska, performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Artists under the direction of Andrew Schulman (2020). Grateful acknowledgement to Dylan North.
Costume: Epperson, an interpretationof the original by Anna Sokolow and Rose Bank
Dancers: Ilana Ruth Cohen, Erin Gottwald, & Margherita Tisato

Ballad in a Popular Style
Choreography: Eleanor Bunker and Samantha Géracht, based upon Anna Sokolow’s As I Remember: Ballad in a Popular Style (1982)
Music: Alex North (original score)
Arrangement: Kevin Kaska, performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Artists under the direction of Andrew Schulman (2020). Grateful acknowledgement to Dylan North.
Costume: Epperson
Dancer: Ilana Ruth Cohen

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First Ladies: Historical Fiction About Pioneering Black Women

Library of Congress 2024-03-27 | In honor of Women's History Month, three novelists with new historical fiction about pioneering Black women reveal their characters' stories and how they came to write about them. Victoria Christopher Murray's latest novel (written with Marie Benedict), "The First Ladies," brings to life the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune; Joshunda Sanders' debut novel "Women of the Post" is based on the real-life 6888th Central Postal Battalion, the only unit of Black women to serve overseas during WWII. And Ruth P. Watson's "A Right Worthy Woman" is about Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to run a bank in the United States. Moderated by Monica Valentine, program specialist at the Library of Congress.

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