Music Library News
July 9, 2008Farewell to Mark ZeleskyThe Music Library says goodbye to Mark Zelesky as he leaves to begin studies this fall at Louisiana State University toward a Master of Library and Information Science. Mark's last day at Northwestern will be July 18. Mark has served as Listening Center Assistant since 2006, but he also worked at the Music Library from 2000 to 2005 during his undergraduate studies at Northwestern. Mark has contributed to the Music Library in a variety of ways, and all his great work is appreciated. We wish Mark well at LSU and in his future career. April 22, 2008New Interface for Grove Music OnlineOxford University Press, publisher of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, recently unveiled a new interface for Grove Music Online. As before, this new site, Oxford Music Online, provides online access to the entire content of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed., 2001). Additionally, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music are also included. For additional information on how to make the best use of this new interface, see the tip sheet on the Oxford Music Online website. April 15, 2008Beatlemania Takes to the AirwavesOn the heels of the Chicago Tribune's story about our Beatles manuscripts, the Music Library has attracted the attention of two radio stations. On March 26, Bob Sirott, host of WGN Radio's "Noon Show," spoke with Music Library head D.J. Hoek about the Library's exhibit of Beatles materials, and today's "Eight Forty-Eight" program on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) also included a segment about the Beatles manuscripts. The WGN broadcast is not available online, but the "Eight Forty-Eight" segment can be heard on the WBEZ website. April 14, 2008Saariaho Wins Nemmers Prize
March 23, 2008Beatles in Chicago Tribune and on Exhibit
An exhibit of high-resolution reproductions of all our Beatles manuscripts is now open to the public through April 18. Located near the entrance to the Main Library, 1970 Campus Drive, the exhibit can be viewed 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. For more information, contact the library at 847-467-5918. March 17, 20082008 MLA Conference
February 11, 2008New Finding Aid for Notations CollectionThe Music Library's collection of music manuscripts and correspondence relating to John Cage's Notations Project have recently been processed and cataloged in detail to provide improved access to one of our largest and most important archival collections. This collection of 463 manuscripts by 274 composers was brought together by John Cage in the mid 1960s for a project to document the wide range of musical notation being used by composers of that time. After Cage published reproductions of many of the manuscripts in his book Notations (Something Else Press, 1969), the collection was acquired by the Music Library in the early 1970s. Along with all of the original manuscripts that Cage brought together, the collection also includes letters to Cage by many of the composers who contributed to the project.
See the Music Library's website to view the Notations finding aid, as well as additional information about the John Cage Collection. Special thanks to Music Library staff members Jennifer Ward and Ruth Young for their work on the Notations finding aid and their continuing work processing our Cage materials. |
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As recently announced by the School of Music, Kaija Saariaho is the 2008 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The selection committee for the award, as reported in the School of Music's
Continuing the
Two of the Music Library's staff members recently attended the
This new finding aid reflects the Music Library's ongoing efforts to improve access to its archival holdings. With the Notations finding aid completed, we are now at work cataloging the great body of additional correspondence that is part of the John Cage Collection.