New Display for the Summer - In Memoriam

2012 seems to have seen an inordinately large number of deaths of people in Music and Children's Literature...

So for the summer, the Music & Curriculum Library will have a display of materials by, and about, these remarkable people.  

 A few examples - in classical music we have lost conductor Gustav Leonhardt and Baritone Dietrich Fischer Diskau. Popular musicians Levon Helm, Doc Watson, Whitney Huston, Donna Summer, Barry Gibb, and Adam Yauch have all left us too early - regardless of their age, it's always too soon.  

In Children's literature of course, we all mourn the loss of Maurice Sendak (see the previous blog entry), but Leo Dillon, Rosa Guy, and Jan Berenstain have all been taken from us this year too.

  


As you'll see in the pictures below, woven in among the photos & obituaries, books, scores, and sound recordings is a roll call of others that have died so far in 2012. Please come by and take a look.

In Memoriam - Maurice Sendak 1928-2012

Maurice Sendak died today. Come see the vast array of books that he had a hand in... A display of books is up in the Music & Curriculum Library. The New York Times has a wonderful obituary for him here Here are a few photos of the books that we've got for you to see

Really Cool New Things in the Arts

1- The BBC and Arts Council of Britain have created an inter-arts space as part of the Cultural Olympiad that brings together streaming theatre, film, dance, music and more. You can watch a South African theatre troup perform Venus and Adonis at the Globe Theatre, Ridley Scott's first film Boy and Bicycle, or take a tour through John Peel's record collection. http://thespace.org/

Best of all... It looks as though most, if not all, of the content is available worldwide!








2- An iPad app to learn about Leonardo's anatomy drawings... This looks amazing. It isn't free, but it's pretty inexpensive... Produced by Touch Press for the Royal Collection, also known as The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Details http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/news/leonardo-app or at Touch Press's site http://www.touchpress.com/titles/leonardo-da-vinci-anatomy/

3- Bill Barclay, who is in residence at UWM for part of this spring, writing music for Rebecca Holderness's production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, is working his way through Shakespeare, reading it aloud in public spaces. He recently read part of Romeo & Juliet from one of the Second Folios owned by the UWM Libraries' Special Collections. Bill's website is here http://www.shakespearealoud.com/

Classical Music in Video - Free trial!

Alexander Street Press launched their database Classical Music in Video earlier this month and are offering free access for the month of April.

Go to http://alexanderstreet.com/clmvopen

Details about what you should find there:

Right now, Classical Music in Video includes 600 videos, totaling more than 300 hours of performance and teaching, and is growing to more than 1,500 performances and 1,000 hours of viewing. All forms of classical music are covered, including performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. Coverage of musical time periods spans Medieval to the 21st century, and performances cover historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current offerings today.

You'll have to create a temporary account with them for it, but please do... and let me know what you think so we can decide if it's something we want to try to find funds for.

April is: Jazz Education & Poetry Month

A new display is up in Music that combines poetry and jazz... Books about jazz, books of jazz music, LPs of jazz... and books about jazz poetry and books of jazz poetry. Stop by and browse!

Focus on Non-fiction - display in Curriculum

The month of April in Curriculum brings a display of non-fiction books...

The display by Katharine Hudson and Emily Christensen highlights the wide variety of materials we have available.

Come by and check it out!

Music in our Schools & Women's History Month Combined!

The Music and Curriculum Library is celebrating March as the month for both Music in Our Schools and Women's History with displays that combine the two... Stop by and browse, or better yet check out a few books and recordings !

Two Bulletin Boards






Lots of books to browse





and two cases full as well!