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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…

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…

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,…

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…

Broadway Melody of 1940, draft screenplay and dialogue cutting continuity

Shown here are documents from the beginning and end of production of the MGM musical Broadway Melody of 1940: a draft screenplay with revisions…

Duke Ellington, arrangement of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Stormy Weather"

This score for "Stormy Weather," in Ellington’s hand, notates the saxophone section accompaniment to the soloists' melody line. This arrangement, one…

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…

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…

Fred Ho, Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Womyn Warriors

Chinese-American composer, baritone saxophonist, activist, and Marxist Fred Ho's avant-garde jazz opera Warrior Sisters (1998), written with…

Boston punk/rock cassette tapes, recorded by Arthur Freedman

In the late 1970s, Arthur Freedman (b. 1957) began to record in the clubs of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. The resulting collection comprises…