An ad used by Multnomah County (Ore.) Library to promote its Library Music Project. Image: Multnomah County (Ore.) Library In Portland, Oregon, the music of local freak-folk legends The Tree People is ...

Jakki Cousins and Azora Lindsay at the keyboard at Wilson library. Credit: Eleanor Polak Photos Hanhe Choi and Azora Lindsay ran around the Music Room at Wilson Branch Library like kids in a candy ...

Back some time in the 1990s, David Hollander first discovered library music amongst the shelves of a shop called Record Supply in West Los Angeles. “While browsing the soundtrack section,” he writes ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Tuesday, the Lyndon House Arts Center opened a new exhibit named “Oliver Domingo ...

Library music was first produced in the 1920s for use with silent movies. Its golden age came during the 1960s and 1970s, when it provided off-the-shelf (and relatively low priced) incidental music ...