There are now more than 1000 recordings in the Blair Performance Archive, a database of recital performances at Blair! That’s 197 faculty recitals, 34 guest artist recitals, 626 student performer/ensemble… Keep reading
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Blair Performance Archive Reaches 1000 Recordings
Oct. 28: Popcorn Day in the Music Library
Come and get your freshly popped popcorn. Friday, Oct. 28th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oct. 27: Pre-College Halloween Party
Unlock the mysteries of the Music Library, and come to a Halloween Open House for Pre-college students on Oct. 27th from 4-6 p.m.. Games, food, prizes, puzzles, mini-golf, crafts, entertainment,… Keep reading
Fall Break Hours
Over Fall Break, the Music Library will have more limited hours. We will be closing at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 5, and will be open 9 a.m. to 5… Keep reading
Music Library receives two exhibit cases
Over the summer, the music library installed two exhibit cases. These exhibit cases will be used to display music library materials and highlight our unique and interesting collections. They may… Keep reading
Book as Art Exhibit: Sept 8, 2011–Aug 12, 2012
The Wilson Music Library is participating in the Vanderbilt Libraries’ “Book as Art” exhibit with an installment on musical notation over the centuries. This exhibit can be viewed in the… Keep reading
Are you a Mahlerian? If so, check out the Mahler Album
The Mahler album edited by Gilbert Kaplan (Abrams, 2011) Call Number: ML88 .M27 M34 2011 The Mahler Album is the definitive collection of all known photographs of the legendary composer… Keep reading
Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Sonatas (Scott Ross, harpsichord)
One of the monuments in the history or recording, the late Scott Ross recorded this epoch-making set of 555 keyboard sonatas as part of a series of recitals given on… Keep reading
Vespro della Beata Vergine / Claudio Monteverdi (L’Arpeggiata ; Christina Pluhar, conductor) (Virgin Classics, 2011)
“Truly exciting one-voice-per-part Vespers that rethinks the work anew”–Gramophone “This ensemble of virtuosi is in blithe and total command of the material”–Choir and Organ “Glorious”–American Record Guide Check Acorn for… Keep reading
Amico : the life of Giovanni Battista Viotti / Warwick Lister (Oxford University Press, 2009)
The first full-length biography in English of Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824), one of the great violinist-composers in the history of music, and arguably the most influential violinist who ever lived…. Keep reading