On Wednesday, March 15 there will be a Faculty Centripetals Luncheon Recital on “Composers Who Chose the Viola for their Final Farewell,” performing will be violist, Sheila Browne. It will be held in the Crest Room at the University Center. If interested please RSVP to unistudy@utk.edu or 974-8177, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~unistudy/ for more information.
Gibb, Mike. Operabase http://operabase.com/en/ What more would opera singers need? This site contains a database with details of over 27,000 opera performances since autumn 2002 by any combination of opera title, composer, date, location; information about specified artists, their schedules, performance details, reviews, bios, discographies, etc.; opera city guides, information about opera houses, festivals, magazines, … Continued
On Wednesday, February 15 there will be a Faculty Centripetals Luncheon on “Dendrochronology and the violin,” presented by Henri Grissino-Mayer of the geography department. It will be held in the Executive Dining Room at the University Center. If interested please RSVP to unistudy@utk.edu or 974-8177, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~unistudy/ for more information.
Country rock musician Steve Earle will display some of his alternate talents — writer, poet, playwright — as the first reader in the spring Writers in the Library series. Earle will entertain us at 7pm on Monday, January 30, 2006, in the Hodges Library auditorium on the University of Tennessee campus. The event is free … Continued
Levi Collins, courtesy of Museum of Appalachia. Photographer – Robin Hood. From January 14, 2006 – April 30, 2006 the McClung Museum will have a special exhibit on the banjo titled “The Banjo: From Africa to America and Beyond.” On Saturday, January 14,2006 from 2-5 pm there will be a lecture and performance. Performing will … Continued
ChoralNet, Inc. ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music 2005. http://www.choralnet.org/. As the official website of the International Federation for Choral Music and home of Choralist, ChoralTalk, ChoralAcademe, ChoralNet is a central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.
Daniels, David. Orchestral Music: A Handbook. 4th ed. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2005. Ref. ML128.O5 D3 2005 Contains a listing of orchestral works from all time periods and includes composer, title, instrumentation, contents (if applicable), approximate durations (when available) and publication information. There is an alphabetical listing by composer in addition to various appendices that list … Continued
As many of you may know the Music Library has a large number of items in Storage. To request these items use the request link in the online catalog. Items will be delivered to the location specified in your user account. For deliveries to the Music library, turnover time generally takes between 2-3 days, and … Continued
Ravas, Tammy. Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. Ref. ML134.S253 R38 2004 This book is organized into seven chapters: Biography, Works and Performances, Discography, Bibliography, Alphabetical Title Index, Chronology, and a Name Index. The Biography section of this book presents a short essay on Schickele’s life followed by a categorical listing of his works … Continued
Blackwell, Brian and Andre Dauwalder. The Symphony: An Interactive Guide. 1998. http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/?tqskip1=1. Includes information, photos, and sound clips for history and development of the symphony, composers’ information, a timeline, data on symphonies, instruments of the orchestra, and symphonic forms. Interestingly, this site is produced by two teenagers in Australia.