Music in the Gorno Library to Feature Pianist Esther Wang

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Melissa Cox Norris

Join us Monday, March 30, in the Gorno Library Reading Room, 6th Floor, Blegen Library, 1:00 p.m. for the next “Music in the Gorno Library” concert. This concert will feature the pianist, Esther Wang, associate professor of piano at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Ms. Wang will be playing pieces from composers Louis Couperin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Doug Opel, Augusta Read Thomas and Francis Poulenc. A full program is available online.

Ms. Wang is a College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) alumna and former student employee in the CCM Library while she was studying for her degree from CCM under Frank Weinstock. Her full bio is here: https://gustavus.edu/profiles/ewang2

Esther will be playing the library’s historic Steinway piano. The Music in the Gorno Library concert series are free and open to all.

CCM Library sale, Apr. 1, 2015

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Jenny Doctor

The CCM Library will be holding a sale of a few books, some scores and a lot of CDs, Wed. April 1, 2015 (no jokes, please), 10:00 to 2:00, Blegen Library Room 814 (8th floor). This is a cash only event. We thank our ARB neighbors for hosting this occasion.

Music in the Gorno Library, Mon. Mar. 30, 2015

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Jenny Doctor

J Gorno program oin us Mon. Mar. 30 at 1:00 PM in the Gorno Library for a concert by 1997 CCM graduate (DMA in piano) Esther Wang featuring music of Louis Couperin, Mozart, Opel, Thomas, and Poulenc. View program.

Music in the Gorno Library Thurs. Mar. 12, 2015

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jenny Doctor

J Gorno program oin us Thurs. Mar. 12 at 1:00 PM in the Gorno Library for Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire. View program (pdf). One of a series of performances of the iconic work by this CCM student ensemble. You can read more about the concerts in The Village News blog.

Music in the Gorno Library Oct. 30, 2014

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Jenny Doctor

J Gorno program oin us Thurs. Oct. 30 at 2:00 PM for the first concert of the 2014-15 Music in Gorno Library season for music of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. View program (pdf).

Audio from March 11 Music in the Gorno Library Concert Now Available

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jenny Doctor

Streaming audio from the Music in the Gorno Library Concert from March 11, 2014 is now available in the CCM Recordings Archives in the Digital Resource Commons (accessible on campus and off-campus to UC patrons only)

New Book on the LaSalle Quartet

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Jenny Doctor

The LaSalle Quartet : conversations with Walter Levin (Boydell Press, 2014) has just arrived in the CCM Library. The LaSalle Quartet was in residence in Cincinnati from 1953 to 1987 and is renowned for its performances and recordings of music of the Second Viennese School, championing of the music of Alexander Zemlinsky, and for commissioning new works from composers Lutosławski, Ligeti and Nono and others. Read more.

Paul Cauthen, Librarian in the CCM Library, Receives Honor

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Melissa Cox Norris

Paul Cauthen, Assistant Music Librarian in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music Library, is the 12th recipient of the Music OCLC Users Group’s Distinguished Service Award.

Paul received this well-deserved award for his contributions to music cataloging over the past 20 years, during which time his cataloging output was cited as being of “exceptional quality” and that his work saved fellow catalogers “literally thousands of hours.” Paul received this prestigious award at the recent MOUG/MLA conference in Atlanta in February.

Congratulations, Paul!

The full announcement follows.

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Music in the Gorno Library concert Apr. 18

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Jenny Doctor

Music in the Gorno Library series. Please join us Friday April 18 in the Gorno Library Reading Room at 1:30pm for “Spanish Song” a recital by members of the Collaborative Piano Seminar. View program (pdf).

Broadway Theater Archive now online