New Book on the LaSalle Quartet

LaSalle QuartetThe 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.

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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.

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