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January 31, 2006
Operabase
Gibb, Mike. Operabase http://operabase.com/en/
What more would opera singers need? This site contains a database with details of over 27,000 opera performances since autumn 2002 by any combination of opera title, composer, date, location; information about specified artists, their schedules, performance details, reviews, bios, discographies, etc.; opera city guides, information about opera houses, festivals, magazines, and more.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 25, 2006
Dendrochronology and the violin: "Stradivarius and Tree Rings: The Hype, the Debate, and the Resolution."
 | On Wednesday, February 15 there will be a Faculty Centripetals Luncheon on "Dendrochronology and the violin," presented by Henri Grissino-Mayer of the geography department. It will be held in the Executive Dining Room at the University Center. If interested please RSVP to unistudy@utk.edu or 974-8177, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~unistudy/ for more information. |
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 18, 2006
Country rocker Steve Earle will be January 30 Writer in the Library
 | Country rock musician Steve Earle will display some of his alternate talents -- writer, poet, playwright -- as the first reader in the spring Writers in the Library series. Earle will entertain us at 7pm on Monday, January 30, 2006, in the Hodges Library auditorium on the University of Tennessee campus. The event is free and open to the public. The UT Libraries' Writer in Residence, RB Morris, who organizes the Writers in the Library series, is thrilled to bring Steve Earle to campus. "Steve sold out the Tennessee Theater at a pretty steep ticket price last winter playing with his band. Now we have him coming back to town to lay some spoken word on us at Hodges Library auditorium that seats maybe 200 people and is free and open to the public. I just hope the Library's still there when it's over," quipped Morris. |
From Steve Earle's web site:"For those who don't know, Steve Earle has been, for the past two decades, one of the more compellingly engaged figures on the American cultural landscape. Steve is the author of best-selling works of fiction ("Doghouse Roses"), a playwright, and a well-known speaker and presence in a variety of left-leaning populist movements. But it is in his persona as an exceedingly thoughtful, yet fun, country rocker that most people know him, and rightly so. His contribution to the merging of progressive country to the wider rock audience remains huge. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that the entire genre of "alt. Country" would not exist without Earle's ground-breaking extension of what used to be called "folk-rock." His recorded work, from the classic 1986 Guitartown onward through such excitingly heartfelt/redemptive works as Copperhead Road, I Feel Alright, El Corazon, Transcendental Blues, to the current The Revolution Starts...Now, represents an extraordinary catalogue of deeply personal music which compares favorably with such esteemed heroes as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, or even Bob Dylan.
"Few artists have been able and/or willing to put themselves so consistently on the line, or to forthrightly speak their minds as Earle has, while continuing to maintain a commercial presence."
For more details about Writers in the Library, visit www.lib.utk.edu/writersinthelibrary/.
The Writers in the Library series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department. For further information, please contact Jo Anne Deeken, Head of Technical Services, UT Libraries, at 974-6905 or deeken@aztec.lib.utk.edu, or R.B. Morris, Jack Reese Writer in Residence, UT Libraries, at 974-3004 or rbmorris@utk.edu.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 10, 2006
The Banjo: from Africa to America and beyond
Levi Collins, courtesy of Museum of Appalachia. Photographer - Robin Hood. | From January 14, 2006 - April 30, 2006 the McClung Museum will have a special exhibit on the banjo titled "The Banjo: From Africa to America and Beyond." On Saturday, January 14,2006 from 2-5 pm there will be a lecture and performance. Performing will be Bob Carlin, former John Hartford banjoist and specialist on 19th and early 20th Century banjos. The lecture presented by Ulf Jägfors, world specialist on African lutes, and Pete Ross, specialist on early African-American banjos, will focus on the birth of the banjo. |
See http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/newspecial_exhibit/banjos/index.htm for more information on this event.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 05, 2006
ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music
ChoralNet, Inc. ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music
2005. http://www.choralnet.org/.
As the official website of the International Federation for Choral Music and home of Choralist, ChoralTalk, ChoralAcademe, ChoralNet is a central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
Orchestral Music: A Handbook
Daniels, David. Orchestral Music: A Handbook. 4th ed.
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Ref. ML128.O5 D3 2005
Contains a listing of orchestral works from all time periods and includes composer, title, instrumentation, contents (if applicable), approximate durations (when available) and publication information. There is an alphabetical listing by composer in addition to various appendices that list the works by duration, instrumentation, solo instruments/voices, works with chorus, as well as other aspects of the work. Also included are lists of intuitions and organizations as well as publishers and sources.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
Requesting Items from Storage
As many of you may know the Music Library has a large number of items in Storage. To request these items use the request link in the online catalog. Items will be delivered to the location specified in your user account. For deliveries to the Music library, turnover time generally takes between 2-3 days, and you will be notified via e-mail when the item arrives. Ask a staff member for assistance if you need help.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM