Upcoming events to check out!

Hello World!!

Here are some interesting events that are happening @ AU and around DC. You might find some new music you like!

Linden String Quartet

Join the Department of Performing Arts and the Linden String Quartet for a concert featuring works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Dvorák. Founded in spring 2008, the Quartet has enjoyed remarkable success in three short years, also winning the Gold Medal and Grand Prize of the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Coleman-Barstow Prize at the 2009 Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition, First Prize at the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition, and most recently, the ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani International String Quartet Competition. The Linden Quartet is currently the Graduate String-Quartet-in-Residence at Yale University, where the ensemble is mentored by the Tokyo String Quartet.

Time & Place: Monday April 26th @ 8pm – AU Recital Hall

Price: $5

School of Seven Bells

Time & Place: Thursday April 5th @ 8pm – The Black Cat

Price: $ 15

Not in Kansas Anymore cabaret

Time & Place:  Friday April 6th @ 8pm – Capital Hill Arts Workshop

Price: $15

Video Games Live

Time & Place:  Saturday April 7th @ [unknown, check website]-  The Music Center at Strathmore

Price: $25-$75

The Ting Tings

Time & Place: Thursday April 12th @ 7pm – 9:30 Club

Price: $25

U.S. Army Blues Big Band

Time & Place: Thursday April 12th @ 12:30pm – Howard University Bookstore

Price:  FREE FREE FREE

Classical Japanese music concert

Time & Place: Friday April 13th @ 12:10 – National Gallery of Art

Price:  FREE FREE FREE

Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas

Time & Place:  Saturday April 14th @ 7pm – Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Price: $55

Earl Scruggs 1924-2012

Earl Scruggs is known as one of the best banjo players of all time. He started his career off playing with Bill Monroe’s band in the mid 40′s, The Bluegrass Boys. He led quite an interesting life and really introduced America to what great banjo play is and should be!

Check out the article from The New York HERE.

::::Some Scruggs stuff you can get your hands on::::::

Down the road – Bluegrass songs of Flats and Scruggs – Streaming Audio

Will the Circle Be Unbroken – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – CD 501

Country Music for Kids – CD 2759

Appalachian Stomp, Bluegrass Classics – CD 3316

High Lonesome – The Story of Bluegrass Music – DVD 9334

Staff Picks!!!

Hey ya’ll!!

So it’s that time of the month again. For staff picks, of course. Duh. Check these babies out! You might find some new gems!

They Might be Giants – Flood – CD 9644

A 90′s classic! Featuring their most famous song “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”!

Today’s Top Country – CD 2580

Out in 1994, this country album features hits from favorites like George Strait and Joan Kennedy.

Rufus Wainwright – Poses – CD 2596

Wainwright’s 2001 album features many songs that made him famous, including one of his best songs ever ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’.

Audra McDonald – Build a Bridge – CD 3758

Audra’s gorgeous voice soars through classical musical theater and pop songs such as “My Stupid Mouth” and “I Think it’s going to rain today”.

The Essential Jazz Collection – CD 3529

All the best jazz music in one collection featuring artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Parker, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Thelonious Monk, and many more!!!!

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Don’t forget to buy your tickets to the next DPA show in the Greenberg Theater:

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

You can buy them online or at the box office in Katzen and Greenberg!

Simple Little Things, All I need is Simple Little Things

Got a couple gems you might be interested in:

CD

Richard King – Chamber Music for Horn - CD 9660

The Pirates of Penzance – The Ohio Light Opera – CD 9662

Society of Composers Inc. – Student Chapter, Volue 3, School of Music University of Florida – CD 9661

DVD

Godspell – DVD 198

Carmen – Bizet – DVD 199

Cds that are, in fact, new.

Jazz

The Best of Nat King Cole – CD 9645

Popular Music

AC/DC – For Those About to Rock – CD 9639

They Might Be Giants – Flood – CD 9644

Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits – CD 9640

Foo Fighters – CD 9647

AC/DC – Back in Black – CD 9648

Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have it So Much Better – CD 9646

Movie Soundtracks

Malcolm X – CD 9641

Pulp Fiction – CD 9638

War of the Worlds – CD 9642

Classical

Peer Gynt, Till Eulenspiegel, Romeo & Juliet, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karajan – CD 9637

MMC New Century Vol. I – Music for Orchestra, Neva Pilgrim, soprano, The Solati Trio – CD 9633

Ravel – Bolero, La Valse, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Mata – CD 9634

Soliloquy: Contemporary Works for Unaccompanied Cello – Elizabeth Morrow, cello – CD 9635

Great Performances – Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exivition – Bernstein - CD 9636

Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi – CD 9629

Random

Music from Cemi – CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol 27 – The Threshold of Sound – CD 9643

Don’t forget about our STREAMING AUDIO Collection, ya’ll!

Hey guys!

Did you forget we have tons of music you can stream from your computer when you’re sitting home alone on a Saturday night in your dorm and/or cave? Or when you’re studying abroad and you forgot all of your music at home!?!

I thought you might have.

Kim and I picked out a couple jams to get you started:

10 Timeless Country Songs – I fall to Pieces

Arne Domnerus: Memories of you

Alfredo Fernando: Tangos & Milongas

Cool stuff about Alan Lomax!

An article in the New York Times announces to the world that all of Lomax’s archival folk songs will be released in digital form!

Read the article HERE!

Lomax is famous for archiving hundreds of American (and international) folk songs, coining the term, Global Jukebox. You can stream the music at the Association for Cultural Equity. The Music Library also has some Lomax gems. Feel free to come in a browse some scores and CDs listed below:

American ballads and folk songs – collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; with a foreword by George Lyman Kittredge — PS 593 .L8 L6

Best loved American folk songs (Folk song: U. S. A.) - Collected, adapted, and arr. by John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax. Music arrangements by Charles Seeger & Ruth Seeger. — M1628 .L8

The folk songs of North America, in the English language – Melodies and guitar chords transcribed by Peggy Seeger, with one hundred piano arrangements by Matyas Seiber and Don Banks. Illustrated by Michael Leonard. Editorial assistant, Shirley Collins. — M1628 .L83 .F6

The Alan Lomax collection sampler — CD 1914

Bad Man Ballads — CD 1905

Prison songs, Murderous home : [historic recordings from ParchmanFarm, 1947-48] — CD 1736

Southern journey Brethren, we meet again — CD 1904

Pile ‘em on baby!!

New CDs everyone!!

Musical Theatre

The Road to Qatar – CD 9598

Blackbirds of 1928/ Shuffle Along – CD 9597

Follies (Revival Broadway Cast) – CD 9600

Elf – The New Broadway Musical – CD 9599

Classical

Samuel Barber Historical Recordings 1935-1960 – CD 9586

Persichetti and Pupils – Piano music of Vincent Persichetti, Marga Rickter, Jacob Druckman – CD 9593

Triple Doubles – Double concerts by Richard Danielpour, David Ludwig, Daron Aric Hagem – CD 9594

Simplicity – The D’Amore Duo – CD 9601

…but not simpler… – Todd Machover – CD 9596

Emma Lou Diemer – Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, Quartet for Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, & Piano, Seven Pieces for Marilyn - CD 9588

Schubert – Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio – CD 9595

Stolen Gold – Ari Yoshioka – CD 9587

Heart on the Wall – African American Art Songs for Orchestra, Louise Toppin, Dvorak Symphony Orchestra – CD 9590

In a Garden of Dreamers – Larry Bell – CD 9589

Flourishes and Meditations – “The President’s Own”, United States Marine Band – CD 9585

Terror and Memory – Andrew Waggoner, Improvisations third string quartet, exorcist, livre, inventory of terrors, one kindness – CD 9591

In Nomine – Moveses Pogossian, violin – CD 9592

Loading in some new CDs!

DVDs

• Hopeville – The Original Gospel Sensation – DVD 193
• Thievery Corporation: Live at the 9:30 Club -  DVD 192

Miscellaneous

• Disco Gold – (CD 9580)
• Rags and Other Riches – (CD 9575)
• Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – (CD 9581)
• Tania Leon – In motion, Haiku, Inura – (CD 9560)
• The Very Best of Singers and Songwriters – (CD 9582)

Classical

• Evening, Morn, & Noon – The scared Music of Jack Gottlieb – (CD 9574)
• Malcolm Arnold – Four Scottish Dances Op.50 & Symphony No.3, Op.63 – (CD 9579)
• Masterworks – Clarinet & Piano, John Russo, Lydia Walton Ignacio – (CD 9578)
• Casella/Partita & Respighi/Toccata & Rachmaninov/Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – (CD 9577)
• Elie Siegmeister – Clarinet Concerto, Flute concerto, sextet for Brass and percussion, Theatre set – (CD 9576)
• A Wind Blows from the East – Four German Medieval Tales – (CD 9568)
• Chamber Works by Ernest Gold – String quartet No. 1, Songs of Love and Parting, Piano Sonata – (CD 9572)
• Feldman – Piano and String Quartet – (CD 9571)
• Crazy Jane – (CD 9570)
• Music of Chinary Ung – Volume 3 (CD 9567)
• A la Albeniz – Chris Buckholz, trombone, Sean Botkin piano – (CD 9566)
• Poul Ruders – Volume 7, symphony No. 4 “An Organ Symphony”, Trio Transcendentale, Songs and Rhapsodies – (CD 9569)
• Beethoven 7 & 7.1 – (CD 9565)
• Darkling – Stefen Weisman, Anna Rabinowitz – (CD 9584)
• Florence B. Price – Concerto in one movement, symphony in e minor – (CD 9564)
• Alchemy – Jan Krzywicki – (CD 9563)
• Diversions – Stentorian Consort, music for trombones – (CD 9562)
• Free Flying – Brett Shuster Trombone – (CD 9561)

Operas

• Rio de Sangre – An opera in 3 acts by Don Davis – (CD 9559)
• The Fortune Teller – Victor Herbert, The Ohio Light Opera – (CD 9583)