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Executive Director Laurent Patenaude and Lead Violist Isaac Chalk of Les Violons du Roy speak with David Plylar of the Music Division about their ensemble and the evening’s program. The concert included guitarist Miloš in a program of Vivaldi, Marcello, J.S. Bach, Geminiani, and others. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11319

Members of the Kronos Quartet David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola) and Paul Wiancko (cello) spoke with the Library's David Plylar following their performance at the Library, presented in celebration of their 50-year anniversary. They also announced at the that the Kronos Quartet archive will be coming to the Library of Congress. For transcript and more information,...

The kickoff event for the U.S. Poet Laureate’s signature project, including the publication of the new anthology “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World,” and the kickoff of the Library’s annual Mary Oliver Memorial Event. Featuring Ada Limón with poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo and Paul Tran. The poets are supported by the Library’s new Mary Oliver Memorial Fund, a g...

Celebrated artists Helen C. Frederick and Phil Sanders and cultural leaders Juanita and Mel Hardy will discuss the powerful benefits of collaborative art and ways to leverage artists’ stories that expand fresh American narratives. Known for nurturing collaboration with other creators and creative communities, Frederick founded Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center and co-founded Navigation Press. Sander...

At this event, 2023 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner George Saunders will give the annual lecture associated with the Prize, followed by a conversation with the Library's Literary Director Clay Smith. George Saunders is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congr...

Melissa Cooper, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark Noted historian Melissa Cooper, who specializes in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history and the history of the African Diaspora, discusses her research on the emergence of "the Gullah" in scholarly and popular works beginning in the 1920s and the 1930s. Using Georgia as a case study, Dr. Cooper ...

Nancy Groce and Douglas Peach of the American Folklife Center sit down with Melissa Cooper, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark Noted historian Melissa Cooper, who specializes in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history and the history of the African Diaspora, discusses her research on the emergence of "the Gullah" in scholarly and popular works begi...

Dr. Nancy Groce and Jesse Hawkin of the American Folklife Center sit down with Benjamin J. Harbert, Professor of Music and Chair of the Performing Arts Department, Georgetown University. Benjamin J. Harbert is an ethnomusicologist and author of the book “Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Oxford University Press, 2023). The book and his recent documentary...

University of Buffalo School of Law Professor Samantha Barbas discusses the roots of the U.S. Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan decision which created the "actual malice" standard that a public figure must prove in a successful suit for defamation. Professor Barbas's lecture focuses on describing the origins of the New York Times v. Sullivan decision in the context of the 1960s Civil R...

Benjamin J. Harbert is an ethnomusicologist and author of the book “Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Oxford University Press, 2023). The book and his recent documentary on the same topic, “Follow Me Down,” will be the subjects of his talk. Angola Prison is the largest and one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, built into a slave plantat...

George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" turned 100 on Feb. 12, 2024. First performed in New York, it has become a motif of the nation's creative spirit. The Library of Congress, home to George and Ira Gershwin's papers, presents this short tribute video from performers around the country, from dancers and pianists, from a high school orchestra and a pro football player, from New York to Los Angele...

Cormac Ó hAodha is the current Lomax Scholar - Lovelace Fellow at the Kluge Center and comes from Cúil Aodha, which is a village in the Múscraí Gaeltacht of Co. Cork in Ireland. He is conducting extensive research in the archive of the American Folklife Center on the Alan Lomax Collection here at the Library of Congress, which includes material Lomax collected some 73 years ago from singers in ...

The Music Division’s Claudia Morales sits down with Jordi Savall, a world-renowned viol player, conductor, and musical scholar, has devoted his career to reviving and interpreting the vast repertoire of early music. His profound understanding of historical contexts and his virtuosity on the viol make him a luminary in the world of period performance. For transcript and more information, visit w...

Robyn Schiff, author of Information Desk: An Epic, will talk with Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles about her work. Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Worth (University of Iowa Press, 2002), Revolver (University of Iowa Press, 2008), A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), and Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by The Washin...

"Chasing Flavor" with Chef Carla Hall

Conversation with Arturo O'Farrill

Conversation with Sō Percussion

Moments of Silence in Modern Thai History: The Unforgetting of October 6, 1976

GHOSTS with Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza and Rebecca Wisocky

Joel ben Simeon, the Washington Haggadah and the Ambivalent Feminine

2024 National Recording Registry Announcement

Goldmund Quartet Concert

Northern Resonance, Scandinavian Roots Music String Trio

Conversation with Northern Resonance, Scandinavian Roots Music String Trio

"The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492"

Exploring two great violins: Nicolò Amati & Antonio Stradivari Violins in 'early' & 'modern' setups

Introduction to The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

Packing for A Solar Eclipse Expedition in the Late 1800s

Diaries from Solar Eclipse Expeditions in the 1800s and Early 1900s