New Library of Congress Web site: I Hear America Singing

[Laura Gottesman <lgot@LOC.GOV>]

Please excuse any cross-postings:

The Music Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce
the launch of a new Web site, I Hear America Singing (IHAS), a portal to
the Library's music and performing-arts collections available at
http://www.loc.gov/ihas/.

I Hear America Singing integrates the collections, commissions and live
concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to discover the
Library's music and performing-arts collections through a single gateway
on the Web.  The site brings together thousands of materials digitized
from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings,
moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with
essays by Library staff and other leading researchers in the performing
arts.  It showcases the world-renowned tradition of live performing arts
at the Library by featuring cybercasts of new concerts and offering a
wide selection of historic concerts from the archives, including
premieres of important works of contemporary classical music.   It makes
education a vital component by cybercasting performing arts-related
symposia and panels held at the Library and making them available to
users.  I Hear America Singing will also become a "virtual
community" for scholars, musicians, and music aficionados.
Researchers will be able to comment online on the materials presented
and share their own conclusions and insights about them.  Content
appealing to the K-12 community of teachers and students will be added
in future releases.

The debut release of I Hear America Singing offers the following
special features:

*Selections from jazz legend Gerry Mulligan's collection at the
Library of Congress, including his previously unreleased oral
autobiography, original scores and manuscripts, and recordings
*"Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio," a capsule example of how music
reflects social history based on the lively musical life of Cincinnati a
century and a half ago
*"Patriotic Melodies," which features the stories behind of some of
America's most important national songs
*Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing," with an
interpretation by the Library's poetry specialist and a reading of the
poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins
*A collection of historical sheet music published from 1800 to 1922

Forthcoming additions to I Hear America Singing will include concerts
performed at the Library of Congress, including specially commissioned
pieces and cybercasts; Civil War sheet music; and African-American
popular music from the early twentieth century.

Please submit any questions you may have about this Web site to the
Library of Congress's Music Division at:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-perform.html

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