AMS - Library of Congress Lecture Series
The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the Library of Congress are pleased to present a series of lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the Division’s collections.
Open to the public, the series is held in the Library’s famed Coolidge Auditorium in the Jefferson Building.
Next lecture:
Thursday, 29 March 2012, noon:
Thomas Brothers (Duke University), "Louis Armstrong: The Making of a Great Melodist"
Call for Lecture Proposals
Follow this link for full instructions if you are interested in participating in the AMS/LC Lecture Series.
Click here for information on previous lectures, including links to the webcasts:
- Fall 2011: William Meredith, "What the Autograph Can Tell Us: Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, opus 109"
- Winter 2011: Carol J. Oja, "Bernstein Meets Broadway: Race, the Blues, and On the Town (1944)"
- Fall 2010: W. Anthony Sheppard, "American Musical Modernism and Japan"
- Spring 2010: Steve Swayne, "William Schuman’s Puzzling Seventh Symphony"
- Fall 2009: Walter Frisch, "Arnold Schoenberg's Creative Journey, 1897-1912"
- Spring 2009: Jeffrey Magee, "Now It Can Be Told: The Unknown Irving Berlin"
- Fall 2008: Annegret Fauser, "After Pearl Harbor: Music, War, and the Library of Congress"
- Spring 2008: Judith Tick, "Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music History”
Upcoming Lectures
Future lectures (one in the late winter or early spring, one in the fall) will include the following:
- Barbara Heyman (Brooklyn College, CUNY) on the music of Samuel Barber
