September 26: Sheryl Howard is another gifted jazz singer Knoxville audiences don’t get to hear often enough. She was a founding member of the vocal jazz ensemble, Just In Time and became known for her vocal improvisations. She is the music director at Trinity United Methodist Church, and in addition to directing, she composes and … Continued

The Music Library will be open from 1:00-5:00pm for six Saturdays during the Fall 2006 Semester. We will be gauging usage to determine if the Music Library should regularly be open on Saturdays. We will not be open on any game day Saturdays or the Saturday of Fall Break. The TRIAL Saturdays will be: October … Continued

On September 17th at 3:00pm Keith Brown, Associate Professor of Music at UT, will teach a hands-on workshop at the East Tennessee Historical Center. For More information contact the Knox County Public Library at 215-8750</i?

September 19: Nancy Brennan Strange has been called Knoxville’s Sweetheart and she is certainly a Library favorite. She is most frequently seen these days fronting an eclectic Appalachian swing band called The Tennessee Sheiks. A jazz singer at heart, she’ll be at the library on September 19 singing jazz standards with Marcus Shirley on piano. … Continued

Sadie, Stanley, ed.The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera.     London: Flame Tree, 2004. Ref. ML102.O6I54 2004 This beautifully illustrated one-volume encyclopedia covers a broad variety of topics relating to opera from its roots in antiquity to the twentieth century. In addition to describing individual operas, this book discusses composers, librettists, singers, and key historical moments relating to opera. … Continued

Faculty and Guest Artist Recital Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 6:00 pm Wesley Baldwin, cello; Guest Artist: Wei Tsun Chang, violin; Music Hall. Contact the School of Music at 865-974-3241 for more information.

September 12: Maggie Longmire and Free Soil Farm If there is a grande dame of the Knoxville music scene, it must be Maggie Longmire who has graced the stage for over twenty years, getting better as time goes by. She is still named Knoxville’s best local musician in readers’ polls and her lovely CD, Granddaughter: … Continued

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.      Themefinder. 1999-2000. http://www.themefinder.org/ This music recognition database let’s you search themes in instrumental music using note names, intervals, or contour relationships (up, down, same). We have several reference books that serve the same purpose, especially Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes by Denys Parsons (Ref. ML128.I65P33). Use … Continued

Kikta, Thomas. Student’s Guide to College Music Programs.      Needham, MA: Larkin Publications, 2004. Ref. ML13.S78 2004 A handy reference guide for more than 1,300 college music programs throughout the country. Includes some short articles on being a freshman, financial aid, musical vocations, conservatory versus College of Music, and about auditioning for college programs. The main … Continued

Ezust, Emily. The Lied and Art Song Texts Page. 1995-2004.     http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ Looking for the word to art songs? This site provides indexes by composers, poets, languages, first lines, titles, song cycles, art song texts, songs in English or in English translation. “The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of 18,197 texts used in … Continued