| This Coming Thursday and Friday at the Packard Campus Theater (August 21 and 22, 2025)
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| Today in History - August 18
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Explorer Meriwether Lewis, who joined William Clark to blaze a trail across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, was born on August 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Virginia. Continue reading.
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| An Interview with Ben Russo, Administrative Specialist at the Law Library of Congress
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| Library of Congress Announces Fall 2025 Concert Season
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Concerts from the Library of Congress presents a bold 15-event lineup for the fall 2025 season, wrapping up its successful 18-month centennial celebration with a rich mix of classical, jazz and pop concerts, lectures, conversations and special projects that salute the distinguished history of the series.
Commissions by Sir George Benjamin, Raven Chacon and Larissa Maestro continue the Library’s legacy of vigorous support for the creation of contemporary music. On Nov. 14, Benjamin will give the U.S. premiere of his “Divisions” for piano, four-hands, a co-commission of the Pierre Boulez-Saal, the Library and Wigmore Hall, with a friend of many decades, Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Benjamin will return the following evening to speak before a concert by the Grossman Ensemble, which will perform his “At First Light.”
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| For Our 1250th Post, Haitian Singer Francilia and AFS 1250
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| Fall 2025 at the Library: Experience the Magic
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After tooting our collective horns for the centennial season of Concerts from the Library of Congress, we decided to not stop! The celebration continues in fall 2025 as we embark on a new century of programming at the intersection of tradition and innovation. In a nod to the first chamber music festival that inaugurated the Coolidge Auditorium in October 1925, our own Founder’s Day mini-festival (October 29-30) will raise the roof 100 years after the concerts that started it all. Join us this fall for a kaleidoscopic array of concerts and conversations, commissions from composers Raven Chacon, Sir George Benajmin and Larissa Maestro and lectures and film screenigs that span the gamut to herald a century of extraordinary music at the nation’s library.
Consone Quartet with Kristian Bezuidenhuit, fortepiano
Friday, October 17, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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The Consone Quartet and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout present an evening of Haydn and Mozart, featuring an early piano concerto by Mozart and an arrangement of his quintet for piano and winds.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 pm
Tickets available Wed., September 3 at 10 a.m.
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AMS Lecture: “Musical Representations of the West During the Silent Film Era: Max Winkler's Score for The Yaqui (1916).”
Wednesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
James Madison Building - Mumford Room (LM649)
101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20540
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Mariana Whitmer speaks at the Library as part of the long-running series of American Musicological Society lectures hosted by the Music Division. Whitmer's talk will use the scenario cue sheets created by Max Winkler to discuss the musical representation of "the West" in silent films.
Tickets available Wed., September 3 at 10 a.m.
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Founder's Day: Simone Dinnerstein, piano, Jennifer Johnson Cano, voice, Peggy Pearson, oboe, and Baroklyn
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Peggy Pearson and the Baroklyn ensemble perform an evening of chamber works by J.S. Bach to open a special Founder's Day 2025 celebration marking the Library’s illustrious century-long history as a concert presenter.
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30 p.m. in the Whittall Pavilion with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres and David Plylar, PhD, of the Music Divison on their new book “Let the People Hear It: Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100.”
Tickets available Wed., September 3 at 10 a.m.
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Live! At the Library: Founder's Day Tambuco
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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The celebrated Grammy-nominated Mexican contemporary classical percussion ensemble Tambuco returns to the Library of Congress for the annual Founder’s Day concert with dynamic repertoire by Latin American composers, featuring music that ranges from delicately intricate to powerfully expansive.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 pm
Tickets available Wed., September 3 at 10 a.m.
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Valerie Coleman: "Reverie"
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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"Reverie" honors a cultural exchange with a program pairing the music of Valerie Coleman with works by Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 pm
Tickets available Wed., September 3 at 10 a.m.
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