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New Content in Dance in Video!
The Dance in Video collection has been updated with 111 videos/90 hours of dance performances, documentaries, interviews, and technique videos. Dance in Video now contains 600 videos/365 hours of content.from Mary Siegel at Alexander Street Press: New material includes: The Finis Jhung ballet technique videos, documenting beginner, intermediate, and advanced techniques in warm-ups, pointe, turning,…
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New Collections at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
from Matthew Snyder, archivist at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: The following special collections have recently been processed for the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and are open for research. For more information, contact the Music Division at musicdiv@nypl.org. Titles, finding aid links and abstracts…
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Classical Concerts Online! Meet medici.tv!
medici.tv “The world’s unique concert hall.” FREE LIVE BROADCASTING OF CLASSICAL CONCERTS AT MEDICI.TV Free live concerts, operas, and ballets are streamed live from medici.tv, and are then available for free for a limited time on medici.tv’s website. Concerts available for listening and viewing for free currently include Renee Fleming and Christian Thielemann in an…
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Free Classical Music Download!
From Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Download Albert Roussel’s “Symphony No. 3, Op. 42” Our featured download from Classical Music Library is Albert Roussel’sSymphony No. 3, Op. 42, performed by the Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Roberto Benzi, conductor. More information about this piece is available on the Music Online blog. All tracks downloaded through this promotion are owned by Alexander Street Press…
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Listen to Music Online: Focus on Spotify
“Everyone loves music.” Spotify, a European company offering streaming online music, finally reached the United States! Very popular in Europe, Spotify offers a huge listening library of “over fifteen million tracks”. Listeners can share music and playlists easily. Spotify works on PCs, MACs, and cellphones, for listening anywhere. To listen to music on Spotify, one…
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Free World Music Download
from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Cowboy Jim” from the album Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, performed by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (SFW40065) The featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is “Cowboy Jim,” performed by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. When Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard recorded these songs in the mid-1960s, bluegrass music was dominated by…
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Interview with Legendary Performers “Kittye” DeChavis and Trudy Pitts
In celebration of Women’s History Month, legendary jazz performers Katherine “Kittye” DeChavis and Trudy Pitts spoke and performed at Paley Library on March 5th, 2008. After the performance, Ms. DeChavis and Ms. Pitts joined librarian Anne Harlow for questions and conversation recorded on this Library Podcast. In the podcast, Katherine “Kittye” DeChavis describes her earliest…
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New Streaming Audio Databases
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of new online streaming audio resources.
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Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007
On September 6th, 2007, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, arguably the most amazing tenor since Caruso, died at age 71 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Modena, Italy. Pavarotti had a voice that was immediately recognizable; tender, expressive, and yet brilliant and clear at the same time. Born in Modena, his father an amateur singer…
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New Library Database! Theatre in Video!
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Theatre in Video to its online resources. Theatre in Video is an entirely different kind of database, offering streaming video of entire plays. Included in the repertoire are the BBC’s productions of the entire works of Shakespeare, as well as plays from antiquity to modernity,…