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)
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New Book on the LaSalle Quartet
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
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.
Music in the Gorno Library concert Apr. 18
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
Naxos Video Library has added the Broadway Theater Archive. 100 classic plays produced for television including Katharine Hepburn in “A glass menagerie” and James Earl Jones as King Lear.
A Heart-Shaped Book for Lovers
By Mark Palkovic, CCM Library
In honor of St. Valentine’s Day this Friday, the CCM Library and the Archives and Rare Books Library present an item from the Rare Books Collection, Le Chansonnier Cordiforme, or Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu. The original manuscript dates from the 1470s and is owned by the Bibliothèque de France (Ms. Occ. Rothschild 2973). The UC Libraries’ copy is a facsimile of the original, bound in red velvet and created by Vicent García Editores of Valencia, Spain in 2007.
Enjoy Music in the Gorno Library November 14
The next concert in the Music in the Gorno Library series will take place on Thursday, November 14 at 5 pm in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music Library Reading Room, 6th floor of Blegen Library. Presented by UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UC Libraries, the concert will include works by Wagner and Schoenberg.
Music in the Gorno Library Concerts Oct. 24 and Nov. 14
UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UC Libraries present two upcoming concerts in the CCM Library – October 24th and November 14th. Both concerts will feature the library’s historic Steinway piano. More about the piano is available online.
Music in the Gorno Library, October 9
UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UC Libraries present:
Music in the Gorno Library
A Short Recital of Medieval Polyphony and Song
CCM COLLEGIUM VOCALE
Wednesday, October 9, 2013, Gorno Library Reading Room, 6th floor Blegen Library, 5pm. Free and open to the public.
Performers Alison Kaufman, Samantha Stinson, Jonathan Cooper, Samuel Chan, Cody Bowers, Michael Fuchs, and Matthew Peattie will perform “Selections from Mass of Barcelona,” “O ignee spiritus,” and “Selections from Laudario di Cortona” among others.
The Smallest Book in the World
Mark Palkovic, head of the Albino Gorno Memorial (CCM) Music Library, returned from the 31st Grand Conclave in Vancouver of the Miniature Book Society with a special souvenir — his own copy of the new world’s smallest book. Continue reading