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 ...
American Songwriter

New Frank Sinatra Collection ‘Platinum’ Due Out October 27

Frank Sinatra fans will be pleased to hear that in honor of the 70th anniversary of Ol’ Blue Eyes signing to Capitol Records in 1953, a new collection of his songs called Platinum is due out on ...
TwinCities.com

Songs from home: How a local educator’s song collection project is changing music education

Becca Buck, a local elementary music specialist, knew something was missing from the repertoire of standard music she taught her multicultural students. So she set out to collect lullabies and other ...
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, ...