The Library of Congress invited musical artist Lizzo to play a 200-year-old crystal flute, which had once been owned by Alexander Hamilton, in 2022. More recently, it hosted a ceremony awarding ...
Lizzo usually saves her flute pyrotechnics for the stage (or halls of government, playing James Madison’s crystal flute at ...
The videos of Lizzo dressed in black and playing gorgeously on other flutes in the Library of Congress’s collection were overshadowed by her concert performance — yelling b****, twerking ...
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...
A collection of 900 folk music recordings from the 1930s and 1940s has been inducted into the National Recording Registry ...
The books that Adams referred to — first purchased for the Library of Congress — were ordered from London. They arrived in 1801, the library also explains on its site. The collection of 740 ...
The Notorious B.I.G. is in the Library of Congress. On Tuesday, April 16, the National Recording Registry announced its 2024 selection. The NRR, a collection of recordings administered by the ...
The Library of Congress has released its annual list of 25 audio recordings earmarked for celebration and preservation as part of the National Recording Registry, and the musical artists selected ...
and and Román Zaragoza (Sasappis)—recently visited the Library of Congress in DC to see historical items the Library specifically curated from its collections from each of their characters’ eras.
“The last few years, the Caucus has been very helpful,” says Dr. Carla Hayden, the head Librarian of Congress since 2016. “It helps to have different cultural groups saying, ‘This is what ...
Given their diverse histories, it seemed fitting for the Library of Congress in Washington to dig into the ghosts’ backgrounds. Earlier this week, five of the eight “ghosts” – or ...
A trove of Civil War-era manuscripts handwritten and illustrated by Newark students and now headed for the Library of Congress might have been lost and forgotten forever had the principal of ...