Happy Birthday, Dr Seuss!

March 2nd would have been Theodore Geisel's 109th birthday (if I did my math correctly). To celebrate, Eleanor Peterson (Music Library Intern) and Sarah Reynolds (Music & Curriculum student assistant) put a bulletin board together and pulled a selection of his books for display.

Can you identify the books that the graphics are from ?

New Resource! Smithsonian Global Sound!

The UWM Libraries have subscribed to Smithsonian Global Sound! This is a wonderful resource that includes nearly everything in Smithsonian Folkways, plus music from a number of other record labels that now fall under Smithsonian's auspices.

• Music from 169 countries from around the world
• Over 1,000 distinct genres and sub-genres available
• Over 1,400 cultural groups represented
• Over 450 languages represented
• Data on 100,000s of artists and ensembles 

UWM users can get to it through the Music Library's "Database" tab on the Music Library website or the Libraries-wide "Resources AtoZ" page.

It's Black History Month in the Music Library

February is Black History Month. There have been, and are, so many fantastic black musicians in all genres - classical, jazz, blues, pop, hip-hop... We've put together a couple of display cases filled with books, scores, and sound recordings. Here's a taste. Come by and visit to learn more!

 If you see something in the case that you'd like to look at, please don't hesitate to ask us to get it out for you!!


(thanks go to Eleanor Peterson and Amanda Smith for putting the display cases together!)

John Lennon... has it really been 32 years?!

December 8th is the 32nd anniversary of John Lennon's murder. It seems inconceivable to me. We've together put a display of materials related to Lennon.

Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?
 

We've also gotten in a new, quite comprehensive, collection of his letters (there's an audio version as well - I believe that the Media Library will be getting it)

 

The call number is (RMU) ML420.L38 A4 2012

Music Librarianship students perform !

The UWM Collegium Ensemble performed last evening (3 Dec 2012) and quite a lot of the Coordinated Degree students took part.

Pictured below are

Back Row: Brittany Nielson (voice), Eleanore Peterson (trombone, aka Sackbutt), Jacque Brellenthin (recorders), Maddie Dietrich (bass viole), Rebecca Littman (recorders & rackett)

Front Row: Kelli McQueen (tenor viole & voice), Jennifer Meixelsperger (voice)

Alex Ross visits UWM

What do these images have in common ? 

They all played a role in the talk that Alex Ross, Music Critic for the New Yorker magazine, gave to the music majors (and friends) at the Peck School of the Arts at noon on Friday, 16 November 2012.

As part of the PSOA's Year of the Arts
celebration, the Department of Music's Musicology & Ethnomusicology program brought Mr. Ross in for two events.
 
His noon-time talk, based on the 3rd chapter of his book Listen to This called "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," traces the roots of music history through bass lines from Ockeghem to Led Zeppelin, passing through Monteverdi, Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Willie Brown, Dylan, the Beatles, and the Eagles (and more!!)

The crowd listened intently... 

On Thursday, 15th November he spoke to an even larger crowd in the fourth floor conference center of UWM's Golda Meir Library. The topic for this talk was the "different roles of music critics and scholars" and it was co-hosted by the American Geographical Society Library.

Alex was introduced by Judith Kuhn, PhD, UWM Lecturer in Musicology and coordinator of the mini-residency.

A few photos of the crowd.

The Graduate Students in Music Librarianship were in attendance.

He signed a few books and talked to people for a while after.

 A small group of graduate students and faculty spent a little time with him in a more relaxed atmosphere at the end of the evening. 

 

For more information about Alex Ross, you should visit his blog The Rest is Noise and/or read his column in the New Yorker and his books The Rest is Noise and Listen to This. 
 
 

Looking for a Thanksgiving-themed book?

The Curriculum Collection contains quite a few... we've pulled some out to help you get started.