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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 Archive and Research Institute (HARI) and the Loeb Music Library assembling 200 albums based on…

While the original version of this exhibition exclusively featured memorabilia from Rubén Blades's appearance at the 1989 Grammy Awards, such as the backstage pass included here, the online version also incorporates materials related to the album…

Pictured are labels for a cassette featuring recordings of four men performing songs and improvised poetry, made at Stephen Blum’s house in Mashhad, Iran (in the northern province of Khorāsān) in January of 1969. This song, young tailor Mahmud…

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 their day, appear here in a lithograph reproducing portraits by Friedrich Elias. Malibran wrote over…

"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 1935. With texts by Bertolt Brecht, the record featured the New Singers conducted by Lan Adomian,…

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 title page).This copy, with text in both Italian and German, probably pre-dates Simrock’s 1819 first…

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 1973-2001. Carter faxed his handwritten lead sheets to the band before its first performance, to be…

Chinese-American composer, baritone saxophonist, activist, and Marxist Fred Ho's avant-garde jazz opera Warrior Sisters (1998), written with librettist Ann Greene, imagines a time-and-space bending rescue mission by three feminist revolutionaries—Fa…

In the late 1970s, Arthur Freedman (b. 1957) began to record in the clubs of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. The resulting collection comprises over 720 hours of local rock and punk music performances, some with accompanying material such as set…

This copy of Vernon Martin's nine-minute Ladies’ Voices contains veteran Broadway and classical singer Jeanne Beauvais’ performance markings from the show's 1963 New York premiere by the After Dinner Opera Company.Geolocation: The site of the Pocket…