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Forthcoming Publications
Let the People Hear It: Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100
Scholarly Publications
Brown-Cáceres, Nicholas, "Amplify Your Impact: Creating a Bespoke Approach to Community Engagement: Influencer Marketing in 21st Century Libraries and Archives" in RUSQ: A Journal of Reference & User Experience 60/2 (2025).
Journal Article:
"Public Libraries for Public Health..."
De Acosta, Diego, Brown, Nicholas, Zukowski, Rachel, et. al. "Public Libraries for Public Health: COVID-19 Response Efforts in Prince George's County Maryland" in American Journal of Public Health (March 9, 2023).
Brown, Nicholas A. "Becoming a Blue-Collar Musical Diplomat: Billy Joel and Bridging the U.S.-Soviet Divide in 1987." In Popular Music Diplomacy: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2018.
Contributor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
Timothy Beale, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Library Recommendation Form
Book Review:
Leading Tones (Slatkin) in
College Music Symposium
Brown, Nicholas A, Review of Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Industry, by Leonard Slatkin, College Music Symposium, September 20, 2018
https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2018.58.sr.11395
Recording Liner Notes, Irving Fine: Complete Orchestral Works
BMOP Sound 1041 (2015)
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American Library Association Intersections Blog
November 13, 2020
Library Journal
October 29, 2020
Brandeis Magazine: "That New American Salute"
(October 2017)
HuffPost Blog: "Chef Nora Pouillon on Her 'Organic Life'"
(September 11, 2015)
Library of Congress "In the Muse" Blog
(June 12, 2015)
HuffPost Blog: "When Music Restores Faith in Humanity"
(May 29, 2015)
Library of Congress "In the Muse" Blog
(March 26, 2015)
HuffPost Blog: "SXSW Music Takeaway: Reinvent or Become Irrelevant"
(March 24, 2015)
Library of Congress Magazine "Expert's Corner"
Library of Congress Magazine, p. 12 (September/October 2014)
HuffPost Blog: "The Model of a Modern Music Entrepreneur: Irving Fine"
(March 3, 2015)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: Historical, Theoretical, and Performance Interpretations
Brandeis University, Honors Thesis (2010)
"That New American Salute": Leonard Bernstein's Examination of Tweentieth Century Social Identity in Songfest
King's College London, M.Mus Disseration (2011)
The Third Reich vs. An die Freiheit: Opposing Uses of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 20th Century German Society
King's College London, M.Mus Paper (2011)
James MacMillan's St. John Passion: Assessing the Value of a Modern Passion Setting
King's College London, M.Mus Paper (2011)
Selected Program Notes
REICHA | Quintet in E-flat major, op. 88, no. 2
MOZART/WINDSYNC | Adagio from the Serenade in B-flat major, K. 361
LANSKY | The Long and short of it
BARBER | Summer Music, op. 31
ADAM SCHOENBERG | Winter Music
MASLANKA | Chaconne from Quintet for Winds no. 2
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2015-2016
ROREM | “O Do Not Love Too Long”
SCHUMANN | Dichterliebe, op. 48
BRITTEN | Winter Words, op. 52
ROREM | Selected Walt Whitman settings
BOWLES | Blue Mountain Ballads
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2015-2016
BORODIN | String Quartet no. 2 in D major
STRAVINSKY | Three Pieces for String Quartet
WAGNER | Albumblatt für Cosima Wagner
DEBUSSY | Premier quatuor in G minor, op. 10
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
PROKOFIEV | Classical Symphony, op. 25
HIGDON | Viola Concerto (World Premiere)
SPANO | Hölderlin Songs (World Premiere, Orchestral Version)
MOZART | Symphony no. 41 in C major, KV 551 (“Jupiter”)
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
FINE | String Quartet; Partita for Wind Quintet; Romanza for Wind Quintet; The Hour-Glass; Alice in Wonderland Chorusses Set I, A Short Alleluia
BERNSTEIN | Chichester Psalms
BRITTEN | A Ceremony of Carols
SCHOENBERG | Friede auf Erden
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
D. GABRIELLI | Ricercar no. 1 in G minor
BALTER | memória
FUJIKURA | Eternal Escape
DU YUN | San°
DEHAAN | Intelligence in the Human-Machine
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
SCHUBERT | Winterreise, D.911
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
HAYDN | String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 33, no.2 (“The Joke”)
ADAMS | Second Quartet (Washington, DC Premiere)
Dvořák | String Quartet in C major, op. 61
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
MENDELSSOHN HENSEL | Piano trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 11
GRIME | Three Whistler Miniatures
BRAHMS | Piano Quartet no. 3 in C minor, op. 60
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
OCKEGHEM | Mort, tu as navré de ton dart
FRANCK | Prélude, fugue et variation, op. 18
NANCARROW | Selected Studies for player piano: Studies 2, 15 and 3C
STRAUSS | Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28
SHOSTAKOVICH | Selections from Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2014-2015
Program Notes for
Elias String Quartet
HAYDN | String Quartet in F major, op. 77, no. 2, Hob. III: 82 (1799)
KURTÁG | Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánsky, op. 28
(1988-1989)
BEETHOVEN | String Quartet in E minor, op. 59, no. 2 (“Razumovsky”) (1806)
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2013-2014
BACH | Brandenburg Concertos
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2013-2014
MOZART | “Ch’io mi scordi di te?” (recitative and rondo for soprano), K. 505
BRAHMS | "Ständchen," from Fünf Lieder, op. 106, no. 1
"Botschaft," from Fünf Lieder, op. 47, no. 1
"Von ewiger Liebe," from Vier Gesänge, op. 43, no. 1
"Vergebliches Ständchen," from Romanzen und Lieder, op. 84, no. 4
WAGNER | Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2013-2014
DVORAK | Miniatures, op. 75a, for two violins and viola
SCHOENBERG | Verklaerte Nacht, op. 4
BRAHMS | Sextet in B-flat major, op. 18
RAVEL | Sonata for violin and piano, op. posth.
BRAHMS | Violin sonata no. 1 in G major, op. 78
MUHLY | Compare Notes (World Premiere)
MENDELSSOHN | Sonata in F major for violin and piano, MWV Q26
Concerts from the Library of Congress 2012-2013
WALKER | Bleu for solo violin (world premiere)
WALKER | String Quartet no. 1
KOSTON | Duo in Two Parts
WALKER | Poem for sprano and chamber ensemble, based on T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
BRAHMS | Quintet no. 2 in G major, op. 111
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