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Stephen Blum, recordings from Iranian Khorāsān

Pictured are labels for a cassette featuring recordings of four men performing songs and improvised poetry, made at Stephen Blum’s house in Mashhad,…

Rubén Blades, Antecedente and the 1989 Grammy Awards

While the original version of this exhibition exclusively featured memorabilia from Rubén Blades's appearance at the 1989 Grammy Awards, such as the…

M. le comte de la Cépède, La poétique de la musique

La poétique de la musique, a 700-plus page treatise on aesthetics by French naturalist and amateur composer Bernard Germain de la Cépède, was first…

Lou Harrison, Gending Alexander

American composer Lou Harrison's Gending Alexander, a work for Javanese gamelan ensemble, was first performed April 22-24, 1981 at the University of…

Lithograph portrait of Maria Malibran and Laure Cinti-Damoreau; Maria Malibran, "Au bord de la mer"

French soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801-1863) and Spanish mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran (1808-1836),two of opera’s most admired bel canto singers of…

Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger

This manuscript of Lili Boulanger's 1914 violin-piano duet Cortège is an arrangement by her sister Nadia for solo violin and chamber orchestra. The…

Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

This vinyl record of Lauryn Hill's legendary 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is part of Classic Crates, a collaboration between the Hiphop…

Jeanne Beauvais, annotated score for Vernon Martin's Ladies' Voices

This copy of Vernon Martin's nine-minute Ladies’ Voices contains veteran Broadway and classical singer Jeanne Beauvais’ performance markings from the…

Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, "In Praise of Learning"

"In Praise of Learning" is one of three rare 78s of leftist songs recorded around the time of Hanns Eisler’s first visit to the United States in early…

Guido Adler, annotated copy of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Chronological Catalog of the Works of Ludwig von Beethoven

Jewish scholar, writer, critic, pedagogue, and editor Guido Adler’s library was a working collection: like this interleaved copy of Thayer’s Beethoven…