{"id":2810,"date":"2013-03-22T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/library-of-congress-makes-room-for-simon-a-garfunkel-van-cliburn-and-the-ramones\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:03:43","slug":"library-of-congress-makes-room-for-simon-a-garfunkel-van-cliburn-and-the-ramones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/library-of-congress-makes-room-for-simon-a-garfunkel-van-cliburn-and-the-ramones\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Makes Room for Simon &#038; Garfunkel, Van Cliburn and the Ramones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/bb\/Ramones_-_Ramones_cover.jpg\/220px-Ramones_-_Ramones_cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Whatever Simon &amp; Garfunkel meant by \u201cSounds of Silence,\u201d those sounds will now reverberate in perpetuity \u2014 whether silently or otherwise \u2014 along with works by Van Cliburn, Pink Floyd, the Ramones and many other artists whose musical creations will be added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The library is to announce on Thursday that it has added to its audio registry 25 new recordings, which were selected for preservation because of \u201ctheir cultural, artistic and historic importance to the nation\u2019s aural legacy,\u201d according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recordings that have been placed in the registry this year are \u201cSounds of Silence,\u201d the 1966 Simon &amp; Garfunkel album that yielded music for Dustin Hoffman to brood to in \u201cThe Graduate.\u201d The registry will also add a recording from April 1958 of Van Cliburn, then 23 years old, performing Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1 for the finals of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, as he went on to win the contest and the hearts of listeners worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>Other recordings selected for preservation include the self-titled debut album by the pioneering New York punk rockers the Ramones; the original Broadway cast recording of \u201cSouth Pacific\u201d; Ornette Coleman\u2019s album \u201cThe Shape of Jazz to Come\u201d; Chubby Checker\u2019s pop hit \u201cThe Twist\u201d; Philip Glass and Robert Wilson\u2019s opera \u201cEinstein on the Beach\u201d; and \u201cThe Dark Side of the Moon,\u201d the best-selling Pink Floyd album (and unofficial accompaniment to \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d). <\/p>\n<p>Source: New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever Simon &amp; Garfunkel meant by \u201cSounds of Silence,\u201d those sounds will now reverberate in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}