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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.

The next lecture is scheduled for Fall 2009: Walter Frisch (Columbia University), on Arnold Schoenberg. In Spring 2010, Steve Swayne (Dartmouth College) will speak on William Schuman. Check this space for further information nearer the time!

Future lectures: Fall 2009: Walter Frisch (Columbia University) on Arnold Schoenberg

                          Spring 2010: Steve Swayne (Dartmouth College) on William Schuman

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:

• 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”