Today I learned that the New York Public Library has a blog, on which, many years ago, curator Douglas Reside had a “Musical of the Month” series where he posted old libretti, recordings, and other paraphernalia. Sadly the NYPL’s current website design lacks any coherent indexing or tagging system: no full-text search, no search by author, etc. So, for my own benefit and the benefit of posterity, here are direct links to all of the NYPL “Musical of the Month” blog posts — at least, all of them I could discover via public indices. If you discover any more, please tell me and I’ll add them here!

• 2011-05-18: Douglas Reside, “Announcing: Musical of the Month”
• 2011-06-02: Douglas Reside on The Black Crook (1866)
  • 2011-06-16: Douglas Reside, “Musical of the Month: The Music of the Black Crook”
  • 2011-06-30: Douglas Reside, “Musical of the Month: Black Crook Archives”
  • 2016-01-21: Douglas Reside, “Public Domain Theater: The Black Crook”
• 2011-07-08: Douglas Reside on Florodora (1899)
  • 2011-08-04: Douglas Reside, “Leslie Stuart and the Pirates of Florodora”
• 2011-08-28: Douglas Reside on Humpty Dumpty (1868)
• 2011-09-16: Tracey Chessum on The Charlatan (1898)
  • 2011-09-30: Tracey Chessum, “Musical of the Month: Flexible Operetta and Micro-History”
• 2011-10-07: Douglas Reside, “Musical of the Month: Listen to the Music!” (The Black Crook, Florodora, The Charlatan)
• 2011-10-31: William Everett on The Prince of Pilsen (1902)
• 2011-11-21: William Everett on Katinka (1915)
• 2011-12-13: Douglas Reside on The Wizard of Oz (1903)
  • 2011-12-15: David Maxine, “Musical of the Month: A Production History of the 1903 Oz”
  • 2011-12-27: Douglas Reside on Ozma of Oz (1909)
  • 2011-12-30: William Everett, “Musical of the Month: The Wizard of Oz and Victor Herbert”
• 2012-01-24: Larry Moore on Babes in Toyland (1903)
  • 2012-02-01: William Everett, “Musical of the Month: A Few Thoughts on Babes in Toyland and the World of Operetta”
• 2012-02-10: Brian D. Valencia on Shuffle Along (1921)
• 2012-03-26: William Everett on Bitter Sweet (1929)
  • 2012-04-09: Brad Rosenstein, “The Echo of a Sigh: Noël Coward’s Bitter Sweet”
• 2012-04-23: Douglas Reside on The Pink Lady (1911)
  • 2012-05-08: William Everett, “Musical of the Month: A History of The Pink Lady”
• 2012-05-25: Ellen Peck on Naughty Marietta (1910)
  • 2012-06-01: William Everett, “Naughty Marietta: A Production History”
• 2012-06-30: Douglas Reside on A Trip to Chinatown (1891)
• 2012-07-21: Elizabeth Titrington Craft on Little Johnny Jones (1904)
  • 2012-08-01: William Everett, “Musical of the Month: A Biography of George M. Cohan”
• 2012-08-27: Laura Frankos on Oh, Boy! (1917; a.k.a. Oh, Joy!)
  • 2012-09-24: William Everett, “The Music of Oh, Boy!”
• 2012-09-11: Andrew Lamb on Erminie (1885)
• 2012-10-18: Tracy C. Davis on Dorothy (1886)
• 2012-11-30: Brian D. Valencia on Evangeline (1874)
• 2012-12-28: Maya Cantu on Sally (1920)
• 2013-01-31: Levi Branson on Night Boat (1920)
• 2013-04-02: Douglas Reside on Very Good Eddie (1915)
  • 2013-04-16: Douglas Reside, “Musical of the Month: Listen to Very Good Eddie”
• 2013-04-17: Ben West on The Fig Leaves Are Falling (1969)
• 2013-05-23: Ben West on Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1947)
  • 2013-07-09: Ben West, “Three Songs From Barefoot Boy With Cheek”
• 2013-08-20: Ben West on Bless You All (1950)
• 2013-12-03: Ben West on Are You With It? (1945)
  • 2014-04-23: Ben West, “Sampler of Songs from Are You With It?”
• 2014-02-25: Douglas Reside on Fiorello! (1959)
  • 2014-02-27: Douglas Reside, “Jerry Bock’s Fiorello! Demos” (no longer available)
• 2014-03-31: Douglas Reside on The Body Beautiful (1958)
• 2014-07-08: Todd Decker on Show Boat (1927)
• 2014-09-29: Alisa Solomon on Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
• 2014-12-11: Philip Lambert on Tenderloin (1960)
• 2015-02-03: Sherman Yellen on The Rothschilds (1970)
• 2015-03-06: Sherman Yellen on Rex (1976)
• 2015-07-29: Brian D. Valencia on Little Nemo (1908)
• 2015-09-04: Kate Edney on Golden Dawn (1927)
• 2017-02-23: Douglas Reside on The Scottsboro Boys (2010)
• 2019-06-18: Sarah Whitfield on The Choir Rehearsal (1917)