Category: Performing Arts News

  • Free Classical Music Download! Torelli Trumpet Concerto

    Trumpet for Happy Days!  This is a beautiful recording.  Enjoy!  From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Download  Giuseppe Torelli‘s “Trumpet Concerto in D major, G.28”   The featured download from Classical Music Library is Giuseppe Torelli’s Trumpet Concerto in D major, G.28. This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Cao, conductor, Andre Bernard, trumpet.…

  • Free World Music Download!

    World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Tarona 1” by Academy of Maqam from the album Music of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks (SFW40521)    Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is “Tarona 1,” performed by Academy of Maqam. Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand…

  • Free! World Music Download

      World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Under the Double Eagle performed by J.C. Sutphin, from the album “American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style”(SFW40037) This recording was the first bluegrass LP ever released. The reissue now contains 16 additional tracks, a total of 43 tunes played by the immortal Snuffy Jenkins and…

  • Free World Music Download – Tango!

    A beautiful milonga is free to download from Alexander Street Press! from Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) – milonga” by Los Gauchos de Roldán from the album Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay (SFW40561)      Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways…

  • Symposium: The Black Composer in Classical Music

    L’Amant Anonime by Chevalier Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges           On Sunday afternoon, October 30th, a panel of distinguished musicians and others gathered for the symposium “The Black Composer in Classical Music: Talent to be Known” to discuss classical composers of African origin.  Organized by Richard Greene, educator and researcher at Temple…

  • Dvorak Serenade for Strings Free Download

    From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: Free Classical Music Download Antonin Dvorak ‘s “Serenade for Strings in E, op.22” The featured download from Classical Music Library is Antonin Dvorak’sSerenade for Strings in E, op.22, performed by the Ensemble Instrumental de Grenoble, Marc Tardue, conducting. For more information, and to download this track, click here: Download now! More information…

  • Journal of New Music Research 40/3, 2011

    from AMS-L Journal of New Music Research, 40/3, 2011 Special Issue: New Paradigms for Computer Music http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nnmr20/40/3 Letter from the Guest EditorsDamián Keller, Marcelo Queiroz, Marcelo Soares Pimenta, Regis Rossi Alves Faria Profiling New Paradigms in Sound and Music TechnologiesRegis Rossi Alves Faria Principles for Music Creation by Novices in Networked Music EnvironmentsEvandro Manara Miletto,…

  • Journal of Jazz Studies

      From Henry Martin at Rutgers University Library:   The Journal of Jazz Studies is pleased to announce that issue 7.2 (fall, 2011) is now available. Our peer-reviewed journal is published online by the Rutgers University Libraries. Individual articles are available for downloading at http://jjs.libraries.rutgers.edu Contents and brief abstracts: Psychoacoustic Foundations of Contextual Harmonic Stability in…

  • Free Classical Music Download!

    From Margaret Loeb at Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Download Johannes Brahms’ “9 Lieder und Gesange, Op. 32a” Our featured download from Classical Music Library is Johannes Brahms’9 Lieder und Gesange, Op. 32, performed by Maciej Pikulski, piano, and Jose Van Dam, baritone. For more information, and to download this track, click here: Download now! More information about this…

  • International Conference on Tango

    Tango: Creation, Identification, Circulation Paris 26 to 29 October, 2011 The conference is organized by the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL, UMR 8566 CNRS / EHESS) and the ANR program GLOBALMUS. This event will begin with a reception on Wednesday, October 26th from 19:30 pm in the bookstore El Salón…