For my last blog post before retirement, I am pleased to feature the research and analysis of Emma Winter Zeig, volunteer and former intern, on one of the songs discovered for "Laughter, Agita and Rage": Political Cabaret in Isaiah Sheffer's New York. The archival collections let us discover and match up lyrics with piano and piano-vocal scores, which we were able to date and annotate using the paper and electronic r…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:54PM on November 1, 2016