Colin Currie & Nicolas Hodges
Colin Currie and Nicolas Hodges perform the music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Karlheinz Stockhausen in a concert featuring a new Library co-commission by Birtwistle and Stockhausen's monumental "Kontakte."Program:Birtwistle, "Variations from the Golden Mountain" [0:12]Birtwistle, "Intrada for piano and percussion" (Library of Congress co-commission) [7:49]Stockhausen, "Kontakte," Work no. 12½ [13:08]
Contributor:
Farwell, Arthur - Hampson, Thomas - Rieger, Wolfram
Film, Video
Art in Action Exhibition: Herb Block Foundation's Marcela Brane & Sarah Alex
Drawings by the renowned cartoonist provided vital inspiration for the Library of Congress exhibition "Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times." The show thematically paired his political cartoons with artists' prints, drawings and posters as a powerful way of exploring the role of artists in reflecting history, culture and society. Marcela Brane and Sarah Alex, dedicated assistants to the cartoonist...
Contributor:
Brane, Marcela - Alex, Sarah
Date:2019-07-15
Film, Video
Dance Treasures of the Music Division
videorecording | videorecording ; 12 min | Elizabeth Aldrich makes a docent training presentation on the dance treasures of the Library's Music Division. (Content). Recorded December 7, 2006 (Date). Speaker Biography: Elizabeth Aldrich is the curator of dance in the Library's Music Division. (Biographical). Videorecording (Form).
Contributor:
Library of Congress - Aldrich, Elizabeth
Casting a guide box, Westinghouse works
Westinghouse works. | Westinghouse works--Paper Print Collection. Compilation reel 1
A large bucket full of molten material is poured into a large container, possibly a mold, by a group of men using machinery. Some other men stoke the fire under the container. When finished pouring, the men lift the bucket up from the container and take it away on a crane. Two men put prods down repeatedly into the container, while others lay covers...
Contributor:
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
150 Years of Alice in Wonderland
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" fifth grade students from Wilson Elementary School attended a dramatic reading of excerpts from the book by members of the International Lewis Carroll Society. Children then had the opportunity to ask Society members about book collecting as a hobby.
How to Draw Supa Mecha Philly
Watch author and illustrator Dav Pilkey draw Supa Mecha Philly, one of the characters from his bestselling Dog Man book series. Features fun Flip-o-rama!
Motive Cello: Motivations in the Cello Sonatas of Beethoven, Brahms & Chopin
As part of a talk preceding a performance by Daniel Müller-Schott and Simon Trpceski, David Plylar speaks about some of the relationships between musical materials in three major sonatas for cello and piano -- in essence, an introduction to motives and their motivations. Works addressed include Beethoven's Sonata in C major, op. 102/1, Brahms' Sonata in F major, op. 99 and Chopin's Sonata in...
Contributor:
Plylar, David
Date:2014-04-24
Film, Video
Colonial Florida: Digital History
J. Michael Francis discussed the creation of a new initiative that contains infographics, maps, original documents and a historical database of people who lived in Florida between 1513 and 1821. The initiative aims to make colonial Florida history accessible to users across the world.
Contributor:
Francis, J. Michael
Date:2017-04-10
Film, Video
A better New York
Better New York State
Shows WPA projects in New York State, including reservoir construction, improvement of parks and recreation facilities, and employment of trained technicians and clerical workers for the Bureau of Criminal Investigation of the New York State Police.
Contributor:
U.S. Government Films Collection (Library of Congress) - Pathe News - United States. Works Progress Administration - United States. Work Projects Administration
Date:1937
Film, Video
[Sigmund Freud--home movies].
Freud, Sigmund--home movie excerpts | Sigmund Freud--home movies
The film opens with a close-up of Sigmund Freud in conversation, sitting outdoors, holding a cigar, and casually feeding one of his chows. The scene then shifts to Freud walking down a country lane with three adults and two children. The group includes Anna Freud. The others are most likely Martin Freud and Dorothy T. Burlingham, with two of her children. The film was...
Date:1925
Film, Video
Junk food danger
DVD-R. Also available via World Wide Web; DivX viewer required. "Island topics #69"--Micronesian Seminar WWW site.
Date:2010
Film, Video
Reginald Robinson oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, District of Columbia, 2015 December 11.
Reginald "Reg" Robinson shares his experience of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how he became known as an "advance man" throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Beginning with his involvement with the student-led Civic Interest Group in Baltimore, Maryland, he discusses how his involvement with the Cambridge Movement led him to becoming a field secretary for SNCC. He recalls how Voter...
Contributor:
Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Robinson, Reginald - Crosby, Emilye
Date:2015
Film, Video
Manuscript Sources of Verklarte Nacht
Wayne Shirley discusses the manuscript sources for Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht in the Library's Whittall Collection.
Contributor:
Shirley, Wayne
Date:2011-02-04
Film, Video
Justin Bieber's Believe
Believe
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
Concert film biopic and sequel to Never say never, the film continues to focus on Justin Bieber's rise to international fame as he embarks on his Believe Tour. In new interviews with Bieber, the movie reveals answers to questions about his passion to make music, relationships, and coming of age in the spotlight as well as never-before-seen concert footage, and behind-the-scenes access.
Contributor:
Open Road Films - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - O'Dowd, Bill - Island Def Jam Music Group - Lanier, Nathan - Chu, Jon M. (Jon Murray) - Scooter Braun Films - Usher - Gopinath, Karsten - Mallette, Pattie - Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) - Bieber, Justin - Dolphin Films - Bieber Time Films - Braun, Scooter
Date:2014
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Men with bows and arrows]
1 photograph : hand-colored transparency on glass ; plate 8 x 10 cm (lantern slide format)
