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MY Business is to Sing: Emily Dickinson, Musician and Poet
Emily Dickinson ca. 1847. Courtesy Special Collections, Amherst College. Used with permission.We celebrate the birthday of Emily Dickinson (December 10) with an exhibit at The New York Public Library...
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Find Christmas Albums at the Library
Fun Fact: Did you know that New York Public Library has a free online resource called Freegal Music? In Freegal Music you can stream and download free songs (Limit to 5 free downloads per week). Now...
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Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2014
2014 was a banner year for great video game soundtracks. Below are ten of the best, all of which are available to stream or download for free! The Floor is Jelly by Disasterpeace and Ian SnyderOur...
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Podcast #43: Marlon James and Salman Rushdie on Storytelling
What's better than one fantastic author? Well, two of course! Salman Rushdie talked with Marlon James about Jamaican archetypes, language, and Gay Talese for this week's literary double whammy of a...
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Great Albums You May Have Missed: Miles Davis Dark Magus (1997)
Every jazz fan has their favorite Miles period, I'm probably in the minority but I'll take his electric phase from '68-75 which expanded his amazing skills by importing the energy of rock and funk. For...
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The Legacy of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana in YA Fiction
"Come as you are, as you were / As I want you to be / As a friend, as a friend / As an old enemy..."On April 5, 1994, I was living and working in downtown Seattle. I remember very clearly how a...
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Best of New Music (February 2015 Edition)
A periodic list of some of the most exciting, newly purchased CDs for our circulating collections.Vida Mia by Lydia Mendoza (1930s-40s) Though Texas politically separated from Mexico way back in 1836,...
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Podcast #50: Jay-Z on Hustling and Forgiveness
Subscribe on iTunes.We are hugely proud this week to bring you the 50th episode of the New York Public Library podcast. Over the last forty-nine episodes, we've learned and laughed a lot with our...
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March Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Drawing as a form of inquiry... groundbreaking graphic designers... The U.S. a safe haven for Nazis... 1,000 years of visualizing the cosmos... a moment-by-moment account of Hurricane Sandy... the era...
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Ol' Blue Eyes: Ready for His Close-up
Frank Sinatra is known first and foremost as a singer and recording artist; after all, before he acquired the nicknames “Chairman of the Board” or “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” he was known as “The Voice.” But his...
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Frank Sinatra’s Flight to the Moon
Frank Sinatra, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Image ID: ps_the_cd13_186This post is not about your favorite Sinatra's song, but if you needed to know how Emmy-winning writer, director, producer, and MLB...
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Orquesta en su casa: LPA at Casita Maria
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded SoundAs well as being a research center for The New York Public Library, The...
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Waiting for "Empire" Reading and Viewing List
Anyone even vaguely aware of pop culture right now has probably heard of the television show Empire. It recently became one of the biggest new shows on television. For those unfamiliar, it is the story...
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An Incommensurable Grief... Louis Moreau Gottschalk on Lincoln's Assassination
Louis Moreau Gottschalk cover caricature in Vanity Fair (October 11, 1862)This week marks the 150th anniversary of the final battles of the Civil War, followed all too closely by the anniversary of...
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"...a half-acre of strings..." Sinatra on the Radio
Irving Berlin. Photograph by Vandamm Studio.Frank Sinatra was, as the Library for the Performing Arts exhibition attests, an American icon. The project, a collaboration of LPA and the GRAMMY Museum...
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A Brief, Creative Look at Earth Day
The Antarctic land and ocean ice sheets are melting and California is experiencing its deepest drought in history. These are just some of the troubling changes we see in our climate lately. Thankfully,...
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Share Your Stories: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the New York...
Manhattan: Central Park - [Philharmonic in Central Park] Image ID: 718405FThis year, the New York Philharmonic is celebrating 50 years of free concerts in New York City’s parks. Since 1965, over 14...
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Sinatra at the Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen, NY. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: ps_the_4036We have received many questions recently about this, the secondary key image for the exhibition. In these months between...
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Rock 'n' Read: Screaming Females
Photo credit: Christopher Patrick Ernst"In the past, my partner and I would read the same book as one another while I was out on tour. It was a way of staying connected, even though we were physically...
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Going Southern Goth
Half a century ago, Harper Lee energized an entire genre of writing: Southern Gothic. Some of the greatest American writers are members of the club.Dark in tone and set in an atmosphere of decay and...
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