Category: Performing Arts News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Streaming Audio Databases

    Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of new online streaming audio resources.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Introducing Classical Scores Library

    Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Classical Scores Library, a new database containing the digitized printed music of hundreds of works. The current release of 1,075 scores includes works by 49 composers of in-copyright material from Boosey & Hawkes as well as material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. Examples…

  • New Audio Resources!

    Naxos Music Library / Naxos Music Library Jazz Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Naxos Music Library and Naxos Music Library Jazz to our online streaming audio offerings. The basis of the collection consists of the entire output of the Naxos Recording Company. The mission of the company is and has…