Tuesday, April 10, 3:00-5:00 pm – Lectures at the Library of Congress (Jefferson Building, Whittall Pavilion on the Ground Floor) on Science Meets Music: Technical Studies of Musical Instruments. Speakers include curatorial and preservation staff from the Library of Congress and from the Musée de la Musique (Paris) and faculty from George Washington University and Catholic University of America. An afternoon of lectures featuring recent in-depth collaborative musical studies by curators, conservators, musicians, and cultural heritage scientists. The opening lecture’s research was funded in part by a Preservation and Access grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the Library of Congress, the Catholic University of America, and George Washington University to study the Claude Laurent glass flutes in the Library of Congress Dayton C. Miller Collection.

For more information and to register for the live webcast, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/music/index.html