2006 is Bertolt Brecht Year!
Bertolt Brecht Manuscripts Discovered in Switzerland Previously unknown manuscripts of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), influential 20th century poet and playwright, have been recently discovered in...
View ArticleHappy Birthday John Coltrane!
To celebrate John Coltrane’s 80th birthday, a jazz-fest will be held on Saturday, September 23rd from 1:00 – 8:30 PM at the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown. From the Tranestop press release: “This free...
View ArticleMusic Everywhere and Anywhere!
Ruckus.com is offering its music downloads free (and legal) to students! Previously a subscription-only service, Ruckus changed its business model to advertising revenue. In addition to over 2.1...
View ArticleGian Carlo Menotti, 1911-2007.
Gian Carlo Menotti, renowned and beloved opera composer, died Thursday, February 1st, 2007, at the age of 95. Although born in Italy, Menotti is considered an American composer and studied with Rosario...
View ArticleDigital Mozart
The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg together with the Packard Humanities Institute, in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), have made...
View ArticleDigital Beethoven
The Beethoven-House in Bonn has recently added to its Digital Archives the sketchbooks of Ludwig van Beethoven. The Archives include digitized first-edition scores, manuscripts, letters, and now...
View ArticleNew Audio Resources!
Naxos Music Library / Naxos Music Library Jazz Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Naxos Music Library and Naxos Music Library Jazz to our online streaming audio...
View ArticleIntroducing Classical Scores Library
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Classical Scores Library, a new database containing the digitized printed music of hundreds of works. The current release of 1,075...
View ArticleNew Library Database! Theatre in Video!
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Theatre in Video to its online resources. Theatre in Video is an entirely different kind of database, offering streaming video of...
View ArticleLuciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007
On September 6th, 2007, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, arguably the most amazing tenor since Caruso, died at age 71 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Modena, Italy. Pavarotti had a voice that was...
View ArticleNew Streaming Audio Databases
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of new online streaming audio resources. American Song contains over 50,000 songs in every style, period, and genre. Genres represented...
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Interview with Legendary Performers “Kittye” DeChavis and Trudy Pitts
In celebration of Women’s History Month, legendary jazz performers Katherine “Kittye” DeChavis and Trudy Pitts spoke and performed at Paley Library on March 5th, 2008. After the performance, Ms....
View ArticleFree World Music Download
from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Cowboy Jim” from the album Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, performed by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (SFW40065) The featured download...
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Listen to Music Online: Focus on Spotify
“Everyone loves music.” Spotify, a European company offering streaming online music, finally reached the United States! Very popular in Europe, Spotify offers a huge listening library of “over...
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Free Classical Music Download!
From Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Download Albert Roussel’s “Symphony No. 3, Op. 42” Our featured download from Classical Music Library is Albert Roussel’sSymphony No. 3, Op. 42, performed...
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Classical Concerts Online! Meet medici.tv!
medici.tv “The world’s unique concert hall.” FREE LIVE BROADCASTING OF CLASSICAL CONCERTS AT MEDICI.TV Free live concerts, operas, and ballets are streamed live from medici.tv, and are then available...
View ArticleNew Collections at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
from Matthew Snyder, archivist at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: The following special collections have recently been processed for the Music Division of the New York Public...
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New Content in Dance in Video!
The Dance in Video collection has been updated with 111 videos/90 hours of dance performances, documentaries, interviews, and technique videos. Dance in Video now contains 600 videos/365 hours of...
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Naxos Music Library adds EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records
from Nick D’Angiolillo at Naxos: Naxos Music LIbrary and Naxos Music Library – Jazz are adding the entire catalog of EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records to its (already vast)...
View ArticleMusic Conferences of Interest
From MLA-L and AMS-L: CFP: “Music in the eighteenth Century”, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX, March 22-25, 2012CFP: From Nineteenth-Century Stage Melodrama to...
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