Category: Performing Arts News

  • Opera at the German Society of Pennsylvania

    From Anthony Waskie: OPERAFEST INTERNATIONAL brings “Little Red Riding Hood” toThe German Society of PennsylvaniaA fun and funny program for kids and people who are kids at heart! Opening performance7PM Friday, October 7, 2011 The German Society of Pennsylvania611 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa.  215-627-2332                  The Ocean City Operafest International is…

  • Free Classical Music Download

    From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Download Johannes Brahms’ “Tragic Overture in D minor, Op.81 “ The featured download from Classical Music Library is Johannes Brahms’ Tragic Overture in D minor, Op.81, performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, John Carewe conducting. For more information, and to download this track, click here:…

  • Free World Music Download!

    From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “A blanco y negro / In Black and White” by Riquelme Carrillo and band from the album “¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia’s Música Vallenata” (SFW40546)    Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is “A blanco y negro /…

  • Free Classical Music Download!

    From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press:   Classical Music Download Ludwig van Beethoven’s “7th Symphony in A minor, op.92” The featured download from Classical Music Library is Ludwig van Beethoven’s 7th Symphony in A minor, op.92, performed by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Alain Lombard, conductor. For more information, and to download this track, click here: Download now! More…

  • Free World Music Download

    from Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: August 30, 2011 World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings  “Pretty Saro ” from the album Songs of Love and Politics by Peggy Seeger (SFW40048) Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is “Pretty Saro,” performed by Peggy Seeger. A dominant figure in the folk song movement in the U.S.…

  • Free Classical Music Download!

    Shuberts Trout Quintet! Classical Music Download Franz Schubert’s “The Trout, Piano Quintet in A” Our featured download from Classical Music Library is Franz Schubert’s‘The Trout’, Piano Quintet in A, performed by Jean-Jaques Kantorow, violin, Vladimir Mendelssohn, viola, Jacques Rouvier, piano, Duncan McTier, double bass, and Phillippe Muller, cello. More information about this piece is available on the Music Online blog. All…

  • Music Conferences of Interest

    From MLA-L and AMS-L: CFP:  “Music in the eighteenth Century”, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX, March 22-25, 2012CFP: From Nineteenth-Century Stage Melodrama to Twenty-First-Century Film Scoring: Musicodramatic Practice and Knowledge Organization,  Alfred Newman Symposium for Musicological Film Studies, USC Cinematic Arts Library and Warner Bros. Archives, Society for American Music, Institute for Film…

  • Naxos Music Library adds EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records

      from Nick D’Angiolillo at Naxos:       Naxos Music LIbrary and Naxos Music Library – Jazz are adding the entire catalog of EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records to its (already vast) online streaming audio services.   So far, more than 225 albums from EMI Classics, are be available in NML…

  • 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,…

  • 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…