Monthly Archives: December 2010

by cketcham | December 22, 2010 · 2:20 pm

New CDs – 12/22/10

CDs

Mozart - The Great Piano Concertos II (Nos. 19, 20, 21, 23, 24) (CD 5797)

Mozart - The Great Piano Concertos II (Nos. 9, 15, 22, 25, 27) (CD 5801)

Brahms - Piano Quartets (CD 5324)

Roussel - Symphonies 1-4 (CD 5320)

Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole / Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No.3 (CD 5319)

Leopold Mozart – Four Symphonies (CD 5099)

John Musto – Bastianello / William Bolcom – Lucrezia (CD 5371)

Jim Hall – Live! (CD 5378)

Horace Silver – Song for My Father (CD 5379)

Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Undercurrent (CD 5380)

Oliver Nelson – Blues and the Abstract Truth (CD 5381)

Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (CD 5382)

Art Farmer – Interaction / Sing Me Softly of the Blues (CD 5377)

Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (CD 5383)

Yehudi Wyner – Sacred Music (CD 5375)

Lawrence Dillon – Insects and Paper Airplanes: Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (CD 5376)

Michael White - Solo Piano Music (CD 5372)

Collins – Music of Edward Joseph Collins, Vol. 10 (CD 5373)

University of Maryland Brass Trio – Brass Trios: Works by Ewazen, Bernofsky, Plog, Nelhybel, Hovhaness, and Sampson (CD 5374)

Richard Danielpour – First Light / The Awakened Heart / Symphony No. 3 (CD 5384)

Scores

Saul Goodman Memorial Percussion Ensemble Collection (M685 .G66 S38 1996)

Stockhausen - Nr. 11: Refrain (M342 .S78 R44 oversize)

Fritz Kreisler – Liebesfreud (M221.K74 L3 1937)

Twenty Encore and Recital Pieces for French Horn (M258 .T85)

Bruce Adolphe – A Thousand Years of Love: A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano (M1621.4 .A239 T52 1998)

Bruce Adolphe – The Amazing Adventure of Alvin Allegretto (M1503 .A24 A5 1994)

38 Selected Duets: for Two Tumpets (M288.T45 T45 1973)

Shire/Maltby – Closer Than Ever (M1503 .S557 C56 1997)

Kander/Ebb – Curtains (M1508 .K3 C94 2007)

Verdi - Ausgewälte Opern-Arien für Sopran (M1507 .V4 A142 1900 v.2)

DVD

Dengue Fever – Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (Music Library DVD 149)

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by cketcham | December 10, 2010 · 4:58 pm

British supergroup aims to take John Cage to the top of the charts

from The Guardian:

Later today, Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, Orbital and many more will gather in a London studio, collaborating in a bid for this year’s Christmas No 1. But the strangest bit is not the team-up: it’s that they are not recording a single note. The ad hoc supergroup is assembling in support of Cage Against the Machine, a charity campaign to take John Cage’s infamous 4’33″ – a composition of pure silence – to the top of the Yuletide charts.

Thecampaign has been gathering momentum over the past couple of months, winning celebrity endorsements, amused press coverage and around 60,000 Facebook fans. Their inspiration is obvious: last year’s successful push to raise Rage Against the Machine’s Killing In the Name, released in 1992, over X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s The Climb. In 2010, instead of loosing a profanity-laden rap-rock tirade on the British public, Cage Against the Machine organisers want to unfurl the serene sound of silence, taking on whoever wins X Factor next week. The plan recalls a similar star-studded silence for this year’s Remembrance Day.

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by cketcham | December 8, 2010 · 5:53 pm

John Lennon 1940-1980

Today marks the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder; his 70th birthday would have been in October.

Naturally, there are many, many tributes and remembrances being published today, and it’s nice to go back to his work, and think about his life and his accomplishments. In the Music Library, we have all the Beatles’ albums (just search “Beatles” from our home page) and the DVD of the D.A. Pennebaker film, “Sweet Toronto (Music Library DVD 5),” which chronicles his performance with the Plastic Ono Band at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival in 1969.

Media Services has the classic “A Hard Day’s Night” (Home Use DVD 5740) and “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” (Home Use DVD 3078), which chronicles his life and activism after leaving the Beatles.

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by hw4913a | December 7, 2010 · 4:36 pm

New to the Music Library

Scores

Richard C. Brodhead – Lament - for solo cello (M52 .B88 L25 2010)

H.I.F. Biber – 12 Trumpet Duets (M289 .B56 D8324 1970)

Katherine Hoover – Shadows - for viola and piano (M226 .H665 S4 2010)

Melinda Wagner - Pan Journal – for Harp and String Quartet (M580 .W133 P3 2010)

Schubert - Piano Works for Four Hands Vol. III (M201 .S4 P4 v.3)

Scores for Singers

Working (M1508 .G73 W67 2005)

Wildhorn - The Civil War (M1508 .W46 C52 2000)

First Book of Tenor Solos Part 2 (M1495 .F575 B69 v.2 1993)

First Book of Baritone/Bass Solos Part 2 (M1495 .F576 B69 v.2 1993)

Second Book of Baritone/Bass Solos (M1495 .S42 v.1 1994)

Second Book Baritone/Bass Solos Part 2 (M1495 .S42 v.2 2004)

Second Book of Tenor Solos (M1495 .S42 v.1 1994)

Second Book of Tenors Solos Part 2 (M1495 .S42 v.2 2004)

CDs

Turtle Island Quartet – Have You Ever Been…? (CD 5364)

1776: A New Musical (CD 5363)

Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms, Mass, Canticum Sacrum (CD 5365)

William Schuman – Symphony No. 6 - Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz (CD 5368)

William Schuman – Symphony Nos. 4 and 9 – Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz (CD 5367)

William Schuman – Symphony Nos. 3 and 5 – Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz (CD 5366)

William Schuman – Symphony No. 8 – Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz (CD 5370)

William Schuman – Symphony Nos. 7 and 10 – Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz (CD 5369)

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by cketcham | · 11:05 am

Free Patti Smith Lecture/Signing at the National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery will be hosting seminal punk musician/poet/author Patti Smith for a meet-the-author talk about her acclaimed, National Book Award-winning memoir, “Just Kids,” about her life in bohemian New York, and her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

The event is the Saturday, December 11th at 2pm in the Portrait Gallery’s McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G Street).

If you’re interested in her recordings, the Music Library has her legendary 1975 debut album, “Horses” (CD 5131), and “Gung Ho” (CD 2393) from her late-90s comeback period.

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by hw4913a | December 2, 2010 · 3:50 pm