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hypetree:

Big Tree got its start in late night jam sessions int he music building at Sarah Lawrence College. Though it’s members met through the jazz program, they soon discovered they had a knack for crafting catchy pop songs.
Check out the title track from their second album – This New Year. You can also follow the goings-on of the band at their page – Big Tree. littleblog.

Big Tree got its start in late night jam sessions int he music building at Sarah Lawrence College. Though it’s members met through the jazz program, they soon discovered they had a knack for crafting catchy pop songs.

Check out the title track from their second album – This New Year. You can also follow the goings-on of the band at their page – Big Tree. littleblog.

(via slcspeaks)

Summer worker Maggie found this great video of Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs playing together, surrounded by family.

dusttodigital:

Doc Watson, one of the all time greats.

nprmusic:

A treasure of American folk music, Doc Watson, died Tuesday in North Carolina at the age of 89. He revolutionized not just how people play guitar, but how people around the world think about mountain music.

Photo: John Cohen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

This is very sad to hear about. Another folk legend gone.

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25 New Recordings Added to National Recording Registry

usagov:

Donna Summer’s ground breaking all-electronic 1977 hit, the creative wordplay of the Sugarhill Gang, the sounds of Native American culture and the voices of former slaves are among the sound recordings selected for induction into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The Registry annually adds recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and preserves them for future generations.

Here’s a preview of what was added, in reverse chronological order:

25. “Purple Rain,” Prince and the Revolution (1984)
24. “Rapper’s Delight,” Sugarhill Gang (1979)
23. “I Feel Love,” Donna Summer (1977)
22. Barton Hall concert by the Grateful Dead (May 8, 1977)
21. “Mothership Connection,” Parliament (1975)
20. “Coat of Many Colors,” Dolly Parton (1971)
19. “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Vince Guaraldi Trio (1970)
18. “The Continental Harmony: Music of William Billings,” Gregg Smith Singers (1969)
17. “Forever Changes,” Love (1967)
16. “Green Onions,” Booker T. & the M.G.’s (1962)
15. “Bo Diddley” and “I’m a Man,” Bo Diddley (1955)
14. “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1954, 1958)
13. “Let’s Go Out to the Programs,” The Dixie Hummingbirds (1953)
12. “I Can Hear It Now,” Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow (1948)
11. “Hula Medley,” Gabby Pahinui (1947)
10. “The Indians for Indians Hour” (March 25, 1947)
9. International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Hottest Women’s Band of the 1940s (1944-1946)
8. Debut performance with the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (Nov. 14, 1943)
7. “Artistry in Rhythm,” Stan Kenton & and his Orchestra (1943)
6. “Fascinating Rhythm,” Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Five (1938)
5. “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart,” Patsy Montana (1935)
4. “Voices from the Days of Slavery,” Various speakers (1932-1941 interviews; 2002 compilation)
3. “Ten Cents a Dance,” Ruth Etting (1930)
2. “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star,” Lillian Russell (1912)
1. Edison Talking Doll cylinder (1888)

Read about all of the new entries and hear an audio montage.

Want to see what we're up to this summer? →

I am writing a blog to answer that question! If you’re interested in library classification, or sound recording classification, the above link is a record of the SLC Music Library’s reclassification project over to the ANSCR system.

To make a long story short(er), we’re switching from organizing our CDs by when we got them to by what genre they are. And we’re trying to do it all in one summer!

Happy (belated) birthday, Bob Dylan! Always a day late on these.

(via nprmusic)

Ligeti’s deliberately written things that are going to screw with your mind in one way or another.

Pianist Jeremy Denk on Ligeti, Beethoven and how to play eight fortes (hint: It might involve a bloody corpse). (via nprmusic)

This is a Ligeti appreciation tumblr now

ligeti

nprmusic:

Joey Ramone left behind a number of song fragments, now collected and cleaned up on a new album. Hear some of the tracks.

Photo by Laura Levine.

Ramones
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farawayeye:

Famous Opera Singer on Sesame Street. Singing about the Letter L.

Other favorite opera moments in children’s television include “What’s Opera, Doc?” from Looney Tunes (which we have in the Main Library)

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Virgil Thomson (pictured with Gertrude Stein)

(Post Nº. 4,000)

dusttodigital:

A quote from the early days of recorded sound.

How to interpret eight fortes? I think maybe I should hurl my whole body at the piano as violently as possible and hope for the best. They would find my bloody corpse weeks later amid the moldy coffee cups, odiferous testament to my devotion to the composer’s intent. How would eight be different from seven? Both must be so searingly loud as to be painful, a distinction between degrees of agony: if seven fortes is like being disemboweled by a wolf, then eight is like being disemboweled by a bear.

Jeremy Denk, on Ligeti’s instructions to play eight fortes in Automne a Varsovie. (via nprfreshair)

You know this is exactly what Ligeti meant.

(via nprfreshair)