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Alan Westby, Librarian, Art, Music & Recreation Department

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Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)

Chinatown: Film Score Sets the Mood

March 11, 2019

The success and lasting popularity of the 1974 neo-noir classic, Chinatown, are often credited to Robert Towne's

Music, Chinatown, Movies, the Big Read
Portrait of Yun Isang

Eastern and Western Sounds Combined: Korean Composer Yun Isang

May 29, 2018

The library has recently added its first scores by the Korean composer Yun Isang (윤이상 / 尹伊桑) to our collection.

Music, Art, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Korean, Heritage Months, Art Department
Photo of composers with a musical notes background

New Musical Scores by Women Composers

March 30, 2018

Women's History Month provides an opportunity to highlight some of the new scores in our collection by women composers. Many of these scores are the first works by these composers in our music collection.

Women's History Month, Music, Art Department
a photograph of Maria Callas wearing black looking straight into the camera

A Tribute to Maria Callas: Scenes from Verdi's "La Traviata" & Bellini's "Norma"

February 14, 2018
On Saturday February 17, 2018 from 1 p.m.
Music, Opera, Art Department, Central Library
88-key Casio Privia PX-350 Digital Piano

Read, Write, and Play Music at the Library

December 05, 2017
 
The Art, Music & Recreation Department at Central Library will now be providing a musical keyboard for patron use in
Art Department, Music, Musical keyboard, Central Library
coffee cup with musical notes as steam and the text Song a Day for a Month Concert

Song a Day for a Month Concert

July 28, 2017
Song-A-Day for a Month is a community of individuals who challenge each others' creativity in an interesting way.
Art Department, Music, Song-a-Day, Central Library
French duellist and opera singer Julie d'Aubigny (1670–1707). Anonymous print.

Julie d'Aubigny: La Maupin and Early French Opera

June 28, 2017

LGBT Pride Month gives us an opportunity to discover a fascinating character from the early days of French opera.

LGBT, Music, Art Department, Central Library, Heritage Months
The Music of Tôru Takemitsu and Japanese New Wave Cinema

The Music of Tôru Takemitsu and Japanese New Wave Cinema

May 26, 2017

As we observe Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Los Angeles Public Library, this is a good occasion to look at some of the interesting examples of Japanese cinema available to our patrons, particularly those featuring scores by composer Tôru Takemitsu.

Art Department, Music, Central Library, Heritage Months, apafeatured, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Musical Ultra-Modernist and Folklorist

March 28, 2017

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is widely recognized both as the most important American woman composer of the Twentieth Century, and as a major figure in the study and preservation of American folk music.

Music, Art Department, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin, Treemonisha and American Opera

February 21, 2017

2017 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death, at the age of 49, of Scott Joplin, one of America's first great composers, and the composer of arguably the first important American opera: Treemonisha.

Heritage Months, African American History Month, Art Department, Music, Scott Joplin, Treemonisha, Central Library

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