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A Towering Figure in Music: Pete Seeger's Centennial

An interview with Curator and Producer Jeff Place about Pete Seeger, the celebrations for Seeger's 100th birthday, and the retrospective album recently released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

“Marian Anderson” by Beauford Delaney, oil on canvas, 1965. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Hardwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Photo by Travis Fullerton ©Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator

Barrier-Breaking Opera Singer, Marian Anderson, Featured by National Portrait Gallery

Sonic Blossom /2013–present / Lee Mingwei / Ongoing participatory performance installation with chair, music stand, costume, and spontaneous song / Installation view at “Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015 /Photo: Anita Kan.

Lee Mingwei on Music and Sonic Blossom

Promotional image, The Stormy Man, directed by Umetsugu Inoue, Image © 1957 Nikkatsu

Japan, Jazz, and Movies at the Freer|Sackler in April

Pandereta (Plena Drum), Puerto Rico, 20th Century Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Gift of Teodoro Vidal

Reflections on the Puerto Rican Plena, Post-Hurricane Maria

Harper's Bazaar celebrated the centennial of George Washington's 1789 inauguration with a cover featuring the first president dancing the minuet at his inaugural ball.

Music at the White House: From the 18th to the 21st Centuries

Trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong, 1946, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist

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A Towering Figure in Music: Pete Seeger's Centennial

Barrier-Breaking Opera Singer, Marian Anderson, Featured by National Portrait Gallery

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