A Best Song Oscar, Handwritten Music Score, Bicycle from ‘Pee-wee's Big Adventure' & More Donated to Motion Picture Academy's Collection

The Academy has been collecting and preserving film-related materials since 1927.
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 ...
The Forward

Celebrating the digital launch of an iconic Yiddish song collection

Yiddish music fans are celebrating a long-awaited accomplishment: the launch of the website, The Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection at the Workers Circle, based on the widely popular out-of ...
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, ...
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 ...
NPR

Omotara James releases her debut poetry collection: 'Song of My Softening'

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to poet and author Omotara James about her collection which explores self-love in a Black, fat body. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Lambda literary fellow. The ...