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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,…

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…

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…

Copy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

An early manuscript copy in several hands of Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (the unusual misspelling “nozzi” on the cover is repeated on the…

Benny Carter, "Myra"

The Harvard Jazz Band commissioned this piece from saxophonist Benny Carter in honor of Myra Mayman, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts from…

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…

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…