Exciting NEW stuff: David Friedman

Listen to My Heart

The Songs of David Friedman

The AU Music Library just got a very large book of the works of famed composer, David Friedman. The book includes: Listen to My Heart, We Live on Borrowed Time, We Can be Kind, Help is On the Way, and Your Love.

Friedman, based just four hours away in New York City, is a film and theater composer, lyricist and conductor. He has conducted musicals on Broadway, and his recent 2009 musical, Stunt Girl, written with Peter S. Kellog has been critically acclaimed in Seattle and is preparing for an out-of-town run before a Broadway openning.

In film, Friedman has been a vocal arranger and conductor for Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He also wrote the music and lyrics for Aladin’s the King of Thieves.

If you are interested in composition, or Friedman or just love Disney and Broadway, this is definitaly a book to check out!

M1620. F85 L58 2002

CDs

J.S. Bach – Motets - The Bach Sinfonia (CD 5409)

Our very own Professor Daniel Abraham is the conductor and artistic director of the Bach Sinfonia. Be sure to check this CD – and his live performance in DC – out!

Andreas Juffinger – Organ Recital – Bach and Mozart (CD 5412)

Reiner Gaar – Organ Music from Dinkelsbühl (CD 5411)

Ulf Samuelsson – Romantic Organ (CD 5410)

Music Library sheet music holdings are now available!

I’m pleased to announce that our historical sheet music holdings are now available online for the first time ever! You can access them from either the AU library web site or from the Music Library subject guide page. Just choose a category, click on your preferred sort order, and there you are!

When you see something you’re interested in, just tell a Music Library staff member, and they can pull it for you. Many of these items are extremely delicate, so use is restricted to within the library, but you can photocopy if necessary, of course.

Gathering this information and getting it online has been a huge undertaking. Our staff spent hundreds of hours organizing and gathering metadata from these fragile and dusty items, and our library Systems team did a great job helping to turn it into a real database and get it online. Many thanks to everyone involved!

We have big plans to improve on this database in the future, but for now I hope you enjoy having this information finally available.

Album covers rendered in MS Paint

You didn’t ask for it, but here it is: thirteen pages of album covers rendered in MS Paint.

A few choice selections:

MONK MONK and more MONK (all monk)

Thelonius Monk has arrived!

The incredible 16 disk box set All Monk The Riverside Albums is at the AU Music Library. The box set has recordings from 1958 – 1961 including:

Come check the albums out on our display of new arrivals!

If you are interested in looking up more about Thelonius Monk, there is a great biography on the Thelonius Monk Institute website.

MORE NEW STUFF!!!!

Hey Music Library lovers! Look what AWESOME new things have come our way!

CD

Franz Liszt – Jerome Lowenthal with Carmel Lowenthal (CD 5407)

Scores

Carl Friedrich Zelter – Viola Konzert Es Dur (Eb Major) M1015 .Z4 1998

W.A. Mozart – Requim (KV 636) M2013 .M93 R46 2004

Lowell Liebermann – Nocturne No. 11 (Op. 112) M25 .L53 op. 112 2010

Peter Schickele - Four Pieces for Piano M25 .S34 P5 2010

Joan Tower – CopperWave (for brass quintet) M557.4 .T68 C6 2010

B. Martinu – Sonatine (for trumpet and piano) M261 .M38 S6 1957

New to the Music Library

CDs

Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film: Moulin Rouge! (CD 5401)

The Lionel Hampton Quintet (CD 5398)

Materne Lehn: Noels Francais Du XVIIIe Siecle (CD 5399)

Gramophone Explorations: Counter Currents in Modern Music – Volume 3 (CD 7116)

Gyorgy Ligeti: Works for Piano (CD 5406)

Richard Danielpour: In the Arms of the Beloved (CD 5405)

Richard Danielpour: An American Requiem (CD 5404)

Joan Tower: Made in America (CD 5403)

Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quartet (CD 5402)

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (CD 5395)

Clifford Brown – Max Roach Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (CD 5396)

Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Smiles (CD 5400)

Getz and Gilberto (CD 5397)

Music Library Open House

The AU Music Library is hosting an

OPEN HOUSE

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 between 3 and 6 P.M.

We are aiming to increase our presence on the campus of AU. Although we invite all our frequent patrons to attend – we hope everyone will spread the word. Tell your friends. Tell your teachers. Tell your students. Tell someone about the music library who doesn’t know we exists . Now is the time to welcome and show others this remarkable resource on campus. With thousands of CDs, new musical DVDs, scores, operas, symphonies, duets, ensembles, musical the AU Music Library is an often over-looked gem on this campus.

So come check it out! And grab a cookie and a CD while you’re at it!

 

 

New Rock DVDs for January

Brand new for the new semester, we’ve  gotten eight DVDs from Isis Productions’ Classic Albums series:

Pink Floyd – The Making of “The Dark Side of the Moon” (Music Library DVD 150)

Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (Music Library DVD 151)

The Doors – The Doors (Music Library DVD 152)

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Catch a Fire (Music Library DVD 153)

The Band – The Band (Music Library DVD 154)

Nirvana – Nevermind (Music Library DVD 155)

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Music Library DVD 156)

U2 – The Joshua Tree (Music Library DVD 157)

 

New CDs & Scores – 1/5/11

CDs

Richard Wagner

Tristan und Isolde – Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber, cond. (CD 5394)

Tristan und Isolde - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, cond. (CD 5388)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Bayreuther Festspiele, Silvio Varviso, cond. (CD 5389)

Der Fliegende Holländer – Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnányi, cond. (CD 5390)

Die Walküre – Orchester der Bay reuther Festspiele, Hans Knappertsbusch, cond. (CD 5387)

Die Walküre – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond. (CD 5392)

Das Rheingold - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond. (CD 5391)

Siegfried – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, cond. (CD 5393)

Vassily Primakov - In Concert, Vol. 1 (CD 5386)

Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis (Original Cast Recording) (CD 5385)

Scores

Haydn – Violoncello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 – Piano Reduction (M1017.H39 H.VIIb,1 1989)

Zoltán Kodály – Hungarian Folk Music II for voice and piano (M1620.K63 M32 1953)

Fritz Kreisler – Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow) for violin and piano (M221.K74 L54 1938)

Walter Pelz – Festival Prelude on Old Hundredth for trumpet and organ (M184.P458 F3 1989)