May 2013
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Summer Hours
The semester is over and commencement is nearing! However, we’ll still be around during the summer (and senior week). Our summer hours are by appointment only, due to numerous projects and Marshall Field being locked, weekdays 9:30 to 4:30. We’ll also be closed for Memorial Day and the 4th of July.
You can check out books or sheet music for the summer (if you’re not a graduating...
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“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (via helenakoonings)
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Return all your books!
Don’t forget, all SLC Library and Music Library books, scores, CDs, etc are due today by 5pm!
Students (with the exception of our dear graduating seniors) are welcome to check out books and scores for the summer, but you must bring the item in to the library to renew it. CDs and DVDs cannot be checked out for the duration of the summer.
Seniors with library items checked out or overdue...
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Senior Week Hours
It’s almost the last day of classes! But we’ll be open next week so you can continue to listen to some CDs (and return the rest of your items which are all due by this Friday). If you need to return items when we’re closed, don’t forget you can return all music library items to the Main Library bookdrop if need be.
Here are the hours for next week
Saturday, 5/18, through Sunday,...
“Our relationships with music sometimes resemble our relationships with people:...”
– Stephen Thompson on what to do when you’ve burned out on your favorite music (via nprmusic)
“But whatever the clutter and overcrowding, the remark by a sergeant from the...”
– Edward Conlon, “The Drag Queen and the Mummy.”
Dorian Corey, star of Paris is Burning, kept a secret, in a bag, for decades. Many thanks to greenfinch for exhuming (couldn’t not) this treasure of an article, which is available free to all JSTOR users through Register & Read.
(via jstor)
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When that one Stockhausen piece assigned for class...
wheninmusicology:
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Watchnprmusic:
The 1-Bit Symphony composer Tristan Perich makes big music with tiny electronics. Watch Q2’s visit with the sound, visual and installation artist as he reveals hundreds of bins — from a carton marked “squeezing tools” (scissors, pliers) to one simply labeled “art.”
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leadingtone:
As for Brahms, this first encounter at least broke the ice, and Tchaikovsky wrote to Jurgenson that he had found him ‘very nice, and not at all proud as I had imagined’ (though to Modest he described him as ‘rubicund, pot-bellied, and a dreadful toper’). In order to consolidate these new relationships, the Brodskys mounted a quiet and exclusive dinner party for the three composers...
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven (via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)
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oupacademic:
“God Bless the Child”
Composed by...
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WatchMesmerizing….
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April 2013
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But will they stay on while I'm jogging?
jstor:
I was going to make a joke about searching for reviews of headphones on JSTOR but there are reviews of headphones on JSTOR.
JSTOR really has everything!
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leadingtone:
Benjamin Britten rehearsing Requiem...
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A Grateful Journey: Kris Kristofferson
americanroutes:
Listen to this week’s show!
A conversation with a man of many talents: songwriter, actor, boxer, military man, among many titles, Kris Kristofferson, reflecting on his life in music, his songwriting craft, and the nature of gratitude for his life’s adventures, as expressed in his recent album, Feeling Mortal.
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What Happened To Opera →
janehoffmansoprano:
When you weren’t looking…we changed some things.
Oh my god I was ready to hate this like I hate most articles about opera BUT THEN IT WAS AWESOME.
Buzzfeed writer:
A surprisingly good explanation of opera today, with some awesome youtube examples of phenomenal singers
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