Tag: Johanna Beyer

  • WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

    WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

      There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2020

    News and music to start your week! We are mourning the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg – one of the greatest legal minds and champions for equality in American history.  Let us remember her life and work, and recommit to carry on in the fight for equality and democracy in her honor.  We can recall…

  • Artist Profile: Johanna Beyer

    The Performing Arts Department of the Library of Congress publishes a semi-regular blog titled In the Muse. The blog has great information featuring items that are held in D.C. and are available for perusal. A Music Cataloger at the LOC, Laura Yust, was a recent guest-blogger and profiled Johanna Beyer (1888-1944). Please do read the…