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This week we celebrated our dear colleague Sandi-Jo Malmon, who retired after 37 years at the Loeb Music Library. As the...
10/01/2026

This week we celebrated our dear colleague Sandi-Jo Malmon, who retired after 37 years at the Loeb Music Library.

As the head of collection development, she guided the acquisition our learning resources, as well as rare scores, composer archives, early editions, and unique research collections, ensuring that Harvard’s music resources remain among the most respected in the world. Her leadership, deep knowledge of music, and adeptness at making connections created lasting relationships within the library, the Harvard Music Department, and throughout the scholarly music world. Yet we will truly miss her welcoming presence, humor, and inquisitive nature.

We wish for you a retirement full of music, love, laughter, and relaxation!

From Brooklyn and Lenox to Mali and Morocco, “Music on a Mission: the Jazz and Spiritual Legacy of Randy Weston” brings ...
05/18/2026

From Brooklyn and Lenox to Mali and Morocco, “Music on a Mission: the Jazz and Spiritual Legacy of Randy Weston” brings together posters, photographs, newspapers, scores and recordings from the composer-pianist's rich and absorbing archive. So far, our visitors have been drawn to such items as a Senegalese kufi cap, video footage of a Liberian concert audience and this handmade concert poster from Mali. 🎹 🌍 🇲🇱

Open April 6, 2026-March 31, 2027

Richard F. French Gallery, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library

Co-curated by Peter Laurence, Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media, and Christina Linklater, Curator of the Isham Memorial Library and Houghton Special Collections Cataloger.

NEW EXHIBITION: Original, prolific, and intense, Randy Weston was born in Brooklyn one hundred years ago. His career beg...
04/01/2026

NEW EXHIBITION: Original, prolific, and intense, Randy Weston was born in Brooklyn one hundred years ago. His career began in New York, stretched to Western Mass. and eventually took him across the world as a jazz ambassador. “Music on a Mission: the Jazz and Spiritual Legacy of Randy Weston” unveils the composer-pianist’s huge archive, acquired in 2016 by Harvard University. The exhibition spotlights Weston’s contributions to American cultural diplomacy, his joyous engagement in fruitful artistic collaborations, and the wildly enthusiastic reception in Africa of Weston’s African American art. 

Join us for an opening event on Sunday, April 12: a tour of the exhibition with the curators, followed by a performance by Vijay Iyer and others in Paine Hall.  
Open April 6, 2026-March 31, 2027 

Richard F. French Gallery, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library 
Co-curated by Peter Laurence, Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media, and Christina Linklater, Curator of the Isham Memorial Library and Houghton Special Collections Cataloger.  
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Last year, our exhibit “Making a Scene” offered an engaging exploration of the Boston-area rock scene of the 1970s-90s, ...
12/18/2025

Last year, our exhibit “Making a Scene” offered an engaging exploration of the Boston-area rock scene of the 1970s-90s, through the lens of the Arthur Freedman Collection. Although the exhibit is no longer on view in the library, the stories and materials now can be explored online through a new digital collection: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/making-a-scene

There, you can learn about the infamous venue The Rat, local fanzine culture, and how women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color contributed to a rich musical community that is often understood as primarily white, and male. You’ll also find an interactive map of all the clubs represented in the collection, and more.

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Music Building, North Yard, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
02138

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Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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