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"What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the notes with anxiety and..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:01:11 -0400

“What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the notes with anxiety and you play your piece laboriously through; you will not be so if, supposing that someone should turn over two pages at once, you stop short and cannot proceed. But you will be so if you can almost foresee in a new piece what is to follow, or remember it in an old one—in a word, if you have music not only in your fingers, but also in your head and heart.”

- Robert Schumann,
Advice to Young Musicians (via leadingtone)

While this may have too many genres to be useful (is...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:01:00 -0400

While this may have too many genres to be useful (is “sexy” really a genre in its own right?), this clickable music genre map is certainly interesting! Hover over a genre and an example band/song will pop up.

(via Clickable musical genre map - Boing Boing)

nyphil: Bicentennial Man While performing arts groups around...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:44 -0400

nyphil:

Bicentennial Man

While performing arts groups around the world have taken the 2012-13 season to celebrate the music of Richard Wagner, it was on May 22 in 1813 that the man who defined “gesamtkunstwerk” was born. The New York Philharmonic tips its hat to Wagner’s works with A Ring Journey, an “orchestral synthesis” of the composer’s epic Ring Cycle arranged by our very own Alan Gilbert (after Erich Leinsdorf).

Meanwhile, you can sate your appetite for all things Niebelungen thanks to the Philharmonic’s Digital Archives, which houses a number of scores from all four parts of the Ring, many (like the excerpts shown above) marked by Leonard Bernstein.

Ring facts and marked scores from the NY Phil, on Wagner’s birthday!

notacontranota: Gustav Mahler conducting Beethoven 9

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:01:09 -0400

notacontranota:

Gustav Mahler conducting Beethoven 9

Summer Hours

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:00 -0400

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 senior), but CDs can only be used in the library for the duration of the summer. See you all in the Fall!

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:01:02 -0400

““The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.””

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (via helenakoonings)

leadingtone: Caravaggio | The Musicians

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:01:14 -0400

leadingtone:

Caravaggio | The Musicians

leadingtone: A memento mori—anonymous French woodcut ca. 1580.

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:53 -0400

leadingtone:

A memento mori—anonymous French woodcut ca. 1580.

facepalmmozart: Nice one! Musical jokes are the best jokes.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:00:59 -0400

facepalmmozart:

Nice one! Musical jokes are the best jokes.

Return all your books!

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:47:00 -0400

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 fines will not receive a diploma at graduation, so get that fixed ahead of time!

Zac Efron thanks you in advance for returning all the library items you had checked out!

atpratt: “Pagliacci” (cast) Wishing they put these in the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:10 -0400

atpratt:

“Pagliacci” (cast)

Wishing they put these in the front of every opera program. Wonderful tumblr, there’s more to this.

under-radar-mag: A year ago, Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:50 -0400

under-radar-mag:

A year ago, Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch passed away. Today, the New York Post reports that Brooklyn’s Palmetto Playground is set to be renamed “Adam Yauch Playground.” (via New York Playground Renamed After Beastie Boy Adam Yauch | Under The Radar)

Senior Week Hours

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:06:46 -0400

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, 5/19: Open 1pm to 5pm
Monday, 5/20, through Thursday, 5/23: Open 9am to 5pm
Friday, 5/24: Closed for graduation!

"Our relationships with music sometimes resemble our relationships with people: Familiarity can breed..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:51 -0400

“Our relationships with music sometimes resemble our relationships with people: Familiarity can breed contempt, we can grow apart and our connections can be rooted in specific circumstances that couldn’t (or shouldn’t) be repeated. Music has a way of tethering our memories in place — of making them vivid and specific — but a side effect of that is that our favorite songs and albums often get reduced to little more than fodder for nostalgia.”

- 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 local precinct that..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:01:03 -0400

“But whatever the clutter and overcrowding, the remark by a sergeant from the local precinct that ‘You could lose a small child in there,’ was both a truism and an understatement, because the body of a grown man had been concealed there for years.”

- 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)

colchrishadfield: With deference to the genius of David Bowie,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:01:35 -0400

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

With a tear in my eye, I post Col. Chris Hadfield’s space recording of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”

momalibrary: pleasecometotheshow: John Cage and the Percussion...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:01:17 -0400

momalibrary:

pleasecometotheshow:

John Cage and the Percussion Players! at the Modern in 1943! Imaginary Landscape #3 looks pretty good.

found in a Subject file entitled: Music and Art.

Sometimes you find yourself preparing for the work day by...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:01:07 -0400

Sometimes you find yourself preparing for the work day by accidentally playing Gustav Holst’s Mars, Bringer of War at top volume. Perfect way to start the day.

janehoffmansoprano: operaswag: “Working with my German diction...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:00:56 -0400

janehoffmansoprano:

operaswag:

“Working with my German diction coach Tristan and my voice teacher Lenny ;-)”

If you’ll excuse me, I need to go throw myself off a bridge now.

How do we hire this diction coach ASAP?

I feel awful having to cut some of this piece to fit...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:06:04 -0400

I feel awful having to cut some of this piece to fit Tumblr’s music posting requirements, but it’s still phenomenal. Soprano Leontyne Price and composer Samuel Barber had a phenomenal artistic relationship. He composed his song cycle “Hermit Songs” (featured on this CD, with Barber himself at the piano in 1953) with her voice in mind, as well as his opera Antony and Cleopatra.

But it’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (text from James Agee) that really gets to me the most. Agee’s initial prose work was descriptive and nostalgic, and Barber felt very much attached to this, and responded by creating a beautiful lyric piece for voice and orchestra. Listen, and then check out the CD: Leontyne Price Sings Barber (BMG, 1994)

Lyrics available if you scroll down past the review on this link.