Music Library News
August 2006 Archives
August 23, 2006
Exhibit Celebrates Mozart
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, the Northwestern University Music Library presents an exhibit of selected Mozart facsimiles from the library's collection. These detailed reproductions of the original manuscripts offer a glimpse of Mozart's creative process. While some facsimiles confirm his reputation for making relatively few corrections while composing, other examples include revisions that indicate Mozart's careful shaping of thematic material and form. Featured are facsimiles of the "Jupiter" and "Haffner" symphonies as well as concertos, string quartets, sonatas, and other works.
Located in the Music Library lobby on the second level of Deering Library, this exhibit will be in place through December 2006.
August 8, 2006
Cage Items Exhibited in Asheville, N.C.
Two items from the John Cage Collection will be included in an exhibit series at the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, N.C. The exhibit series, titled "Black Mountain College: Its Time and Place," coincides with the 50th anniversary of the closing of Black Mountain College, an experimental college near Asheville that offered diverse and unorthodox courses from 1933 through 1956. Along with John Cage, Black Mountain's faculty included Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, M. C. Richards, Robert Motherwell, and many other important artists and thinkers.
For the current exhibit, the Music Library has loaned the museum a program from a 1953 concert of dances presented by Cunningham. Another exhibit later in the year will include a rare poster from around 1953 announcing a festival organized by Cage and featuring the works of a variety of musicians, dancers, and poets.
