A best song Oscar, handwritten music score, bicycle from 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' & more donated to Motion Picture Academy's collection

Handwritten music score and sheet music for the Oscar-winning title song from Fred Zinnemann's best picture nominee High Noon ...
The Forward

The digitized ‘Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection’ is now live

The Workers Circle has unveiled a long anticipated website: the digitization of 400 Yiddish songs, based on the popular out-of-print songbook series, Pearls of Yiddish Song, compiled and written by ...
Springfield News-Leader

Life of Ozarks' folk song collector chronicled in book, 'Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter'

Sarah Jane Nelson had never been to the Ozarks when she first heard about Max Hunter, a traveling salesman who spent 20 years collecting folk songs and stories throughout the Ozarks. At the time, ...
University of California

Vast collection of historic American music released via UC Santa Barbara Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.
Jazz

Bill Bruford 'Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career Collection' 6-CD Box Set Available For Pre-Order

Making A Song and Dance: A Complete Career Collection is a 6-CD Box Set that charts some of the many highlights of Bruford’s incredible career and is released on April 29th through BMG. Over the past ...
American Songwriter

Drew and Ellie Holcomb Return to Base on ‘Coming Home: A Collection of Songs’

Like many artists, 2020 was a time of reconfiguration. Off the road and back into life with their family, being creative was an afterthought. Eventually, Drew and Ellie Holcomb got back out on the ...