TODAY: Lawrence Lessig Wireside Chat

The main library will be presenting Lawrence Lessig‘s wireside chat today from 6pm to 7:30pm in the Training and Events Room on the first floor.

Lessig is the leading advocate for copyright reform in America, and author of several books on the topic including Free Culture and Remix. If you’re unfamiliar with his critiques and ideas, I strongly recommend that you attend. Copyright law may be a dry topic, but a firm understanding is important for all content creators – musicians, composers, arrangers, authors, and so on – and Lessig is about as engaging a speaker on the subject as there is.

The event will consist of a 45 minute lecture, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. For more information, check out the Open Video Alliance website.

If you’re unable to make the event but are still interested in the topic, here’s a video of a brief (~20 minute) lecture he gave recently:

Songs from the Stacks

SONGS FROM THE STACKS

American Song Treasures from the AU Library Collection

Thursday March 4th, 7:30pm

Featuring: Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano

Doug Bowles, tenor

Mary Gottlieb, piano

The concert will be preceded by a lecture from AU Music Librarian Nobue Matsuoka-Motley

Upcoming Faculty Concerts: Noah Getz

Feb. 18, 7:30pm at the Levine School of Music

Levine Jazz Quintet: A Study in Contrast

Featuring the music of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and John Coltrane’s Giant Steps

For more information visit:

http://www.levineschool.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=106701

Feb. 20, 7:30pm at The Lyceum

Pictures on Silence – Harp & Saxophone chamber duo featuring Jacqueline Pollauf & Noah Getz

For more information visit:

http://oha.alexandriava.gov/lyceum/ly-performance_calendar.html#february

Visit Dr. Getz’s website, http://www.noahgetz.com/ and the Pictures on Silence website, http://www.picturesonsilence.org/ for more information and news about Dr. Getz and his performances!

New Arrivals

Five Course Love: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording – CD 5106

That Time of Year: An All-New Musical Revue – CD 5100

Highlights from Shrek the Musical – CD 5108

Nine: The Original Cast Album – CD 5101

Music of Stefan Wolpe, Vol. 5: Lazy Andy Ant - CD 5107

Intermediate Masterwork for Marimba: 24 New Concert Pieces – CD 5102

Concert Hall Recital, 1947: Nadia Reisenberg, piano – CD 5104

Collage New Music Performs Donald Sur – CD 5105

American Handstands: Works by Composer-Pianists – CD 5109

These are Different Times: Compositions by Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian – CD 5110

Andrés Cárdenes, violin performs Stock, Barber & Copland – CD 5111

Landscape with Figures: Vocal Music of Tom Cipullo – CD 5112

Touch: The Toccata Project – post-1900 piano tocattas – CD 5113

Conducted by Pierre Monteux…

San Francisco Symphony

Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 8 – CD 8738

Brahms Symphony No. 2, Mahler Kindertotenlieder – CD 8740

Chausson Symphonie & Poème de l’amour ed de la mer – CD 8741

Debussy – Nocturnes(BSO) & Images – CD 8742

Delibes – Coppelia & Sylvia Suites, Gounod – Faust – CD 8744

Franck – Symphonie, Piece héroïque, d’Indy – Istar – CD 8745

d’Indy – Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Symphony No. 2 – CD 8746

Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé, La valse, Ibert – Escales - CD 8747

Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Antar, Sadko – CD 8748

Strauss – Ein Heldenleben, Tod und Verklärung – CD 8749

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Debussy – La mer, Liszt – Les préludes, Scriabin – Poème de l’extase - CD 8743

Tchaikovsky – Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 “Pathétique” – CD 8751

Stravinsky – Le sacre du printemps, Pétrouchka - CD 8750