Northern Illinois University Music Library

The New York Philharmonic has launched a new Web site that will allow users to search for historical data about the orchestra. You can read Daniel J. Wakin's article in the New York Times, "Philharmonic Puts Its History by the Numbers Online," here...

The Music Library began its Summer semester schedule yesterday. From then until August 7, the Music Library will be open Monday through Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and on Thursday from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m...

The Music Library recently received Orchestral "Pops" Music: A Handbook, by Lucy Manning (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009). It uses the same format as the familiar orchestral music resource, Orchestral Music: A Handbook, 4th ed., by David Daniels...

Stanford University posted a Web site that allows searching of the Monterey Jazz Festival Collection, a repository of musical sound recordings and interviews from the Monterey Jazz Festival, dating back to 1958...

Chicago-based Blues singer, Koko Taylor, died yesterday. You can read about it at Greg Kot's Chicago Tribune blog, "Turn it Up."

The Music Library recently acquired a new title in the reference collection:Herbert, Trevor. Music in Words: A Guide to Researching & Writing about Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Call no. MUR 3797.H537 2009

Raymond Bisha posted a podcast on the Naxos Blog featuring an interview with Joseph Bertolozzi and recorded excerpts from Bridge Music, Bertolozzi's composition played on New York's Mid-Hudson Bridge.

Lynne Thomas and I have launched the online version of our poster session on the Raya Garbousova collection (held by the Rare Books & Special Collections Department of the Northern Illinois University Libraries). You can see the online poster here...

Beginning last Monday, May 11 and continuing through Friday, June 5, the Music Library will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 12 p.m., closed from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m., and open from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. The Music Library will be closed on Monday, May 25 for Memorial Day...

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) started a project to keep track of the copyright status of books in WorldCat. You can read more about that here.

The Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) has begun a new project to make orchestral parts in the public domain widely available. You can read about it here.

The Music Library just received a new, highly promoted book on the subject. It is:Booth, Eric. The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Call no. MUX MT1 .B6835 2009.

Smith College, a private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, has proposed eliminating its renowned Werner Josten Performing Arts Library and consolidating its collection into its William Allan Neilson Library (its main library)...

Read Jason Victor Serinus's interview with Terry Riley and David Harrington about the history of In C on PlaybillArts, entitled "A Stoned Mozart? Terry Riley and David Harrington Discuss In C". The article ends with an announcement of the upcoming Carnegie Hall performance.

See Patrick Healy's article, "Rodgers and Hammerstein Catalog Sold" in The New York Times yesterday.

According to the Web site for the Pulitzer Prizes, today Steve Reich was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer prize for music, for his composition, Double Sextet.

Assembling an orchestra of musicians scattered all over the world for a live performance via YouTube is quite an endeavor. Michael Tilson Thomas did just that for a performance at Carnegie Hall yesterday. Read Anthony Tommasini's review for The New York Times here.

The NIU Music Library has acquired The Trumpet Music of Verne Reynolds (Mark Masters 4843-MCD) by Mark Ponzo, professor of trumpet in the Northern Illinois University School of Music. It is available under call no. MUB CDisc. M3.1.R496 T7 2006.

Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times wrote an interesting column on April 6 about Glenn Gould and his vision of how technology would transform how consumers experience music. I saw this in Arts & Letters Daily.

The Music Library recently received Judith Tick's compilation, Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion, with Paul Beaudoin, assistant editor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). This is a broad collection of source writings on American music from 1540 to 2000...

The Music Library recently acquired James F. Green's new translation of Willy Hess's catalogue of Ludwig van Beethoven's works. It is entitled, The New Hess Catalog of Beethoven's Works

On the topic of summer music festivals, the concert schedule for the Ravinia Festival is available on its Web site as well. Most concerts will take place from June to August.

I just checked the Web site of the Woodstock Mozart Festival, and saw that they have posted their 2009 season performance dates and repertoire. I attended one performance last year and I was quite impressed...

The Music Library just received McCorkle's thematic catalogue of Robert Schumann's works. This invaluable reference tool was published by G. Henle, and the text is predominantly in German. It also has a helpful English translation of the Foreword and other introductory material.McCorkle, Margit L...

Please come to the Music Library and check out our display of materials from the poster session Lynne Thomas and Michael Duffy presented at the 2009 Music Library Association Meeting in Chicago...

Today the NIU community remembers the the five students who lost their lives one year ago. Memorial events will take place in various locations on the NIU campus. The University put together a Web site for the memorial observance...

I will be out of the office next week from Tuesday, February 17 through Friday, February 20, to attend the 78th annual conference of the Music Library Association in Chicago...

If you didn't have the chance to watch the Grammy awards show on Sunday, you can still find out who the Grammy winners were this year. Check out the Winners List on the GRAMMY.com Web site.

The Oberlin Conservatory Library posted a tip today on its blog, Guido's Hand, on how to use controlled vocabulary. It is worth reading! In our online catalog, controlled vocabulary terms are often hyperlinked, so that you can click on them and retrieve lists of items that use the same term.

The Music Library will close at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 12, 2009 for a private reception. Please make a note of this if you plan on visiting the library this week.

Read the obituary by Allan Kozinn in the New York Times.

This week, the Music Library received two books by two of the world's most noteworthy musical personalities. They are:Barenboim, Daniel. Music Quickens Time. London: Verso, 2008. Call no. MUX ML3916 .B37 2008. Marsalis, Wynton, with Geoffrey C. Ward...

Vivien Schweitzer reviewed the Stradivari Quartett's first U.S. performance for the New York Times. She focused her evaluation on the program notes, which featured reports on the provenance of the instruments, rather than vitae of the performers.

Allan Kozinn wrote this obituary in the New York Times.

Here are some new reference titles from a recent delivery:Gottlieb, Jane. Music Library and Research Skills. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. Call no...

On behalf of the Music Library, I wish to welcome back all students and faculty for the Spring 2009 Semester. We will be open to serve you Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m...