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Beyond the Notes: Bach to the Future — Three Centuries of Guitar Music
Beyond the Notes, Temple Library’s Award-Winning Noontime Concert Series Presents: The Guitar Studio of Allen Krantz Bach to the Future: Three Centuries of Guitar Music Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Noon to 1:00 P.M. Paley Library Lecture Hall Of all the instruments employed in Western music, the guitar has possibly the most diverse and unique history (spanning…
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Musical Gems in a New Setting Contest!
Beyond the Notes: Temple Library’s Award-Winning Noontime Concert Series Presents: Jeffrey Solow, cello Elise Auerbach, piano Musical Gems in a New Setting Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Noon to 1:00 P.M. Paley Library Lecture Hall Answer this question for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate: What did the Nazis confiscate from Gregor Piatigorsky in…
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Beyond the Notes – Musical Gems in a New Setting
Beyond the Notes: Temple Library’s Award-Winning Noontime Concert Series Presents: Jeffrey Solow, cello Elise Auerbach, piano Musical Gems in a New Setting Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Noon to 1:00 P.M. Paley Library Lecture Hall After a quick perusal of the chamber music program for the upcoming Beyond the Notes concert, the names Franz Joseph Haydn,…
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Tag! You’re it! Win $50!
Win $50 in the Beyond the Notes Facebook Tagging Contest! How to Win 1. Attend as many of the Beyond the Notes award-winning Library Noontime concerts as you can! 2. Check Temple Libraries’ Facebook page for concert photographs, or take a selfie at the event and submit it to Facebook or Twitter. 3. Be sure…
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Enter to Win a $10 Gift Certificate!
Beyond the Notes Library Noontime Concert Series Contest! In the spirit of Temple Libraries’ theme of “Gaming” for the 2015-2016 year, a contest to win a $10 Barnes & Noble gift certificate will be held at every Library Noontime concert! Easy! A question will be posted on this site a few weeks before each concert with…
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Spin the Baroque! Contemporary Music for Harpsichord
Join us for a new and refreshing lunchtime break! Renowned harpsichordist, scholar, and beloved teacher Joyce Lindorff and her students join us at Temple University Library on Thursday, March 12th, 12-1. Although commonly associated with what we call the baroque period in music (ca. 1600-1750), the harpsichord now enjoys a rich and renewed repertoire as…
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The Romance of the Guitar
Classical Guitar Students of Allen Krantz What can take the chill out of November better than classical guitar music? Savor the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carulli, and others as students of Allen Krantz share their extraordinary talent and beautiful music with us in a cozy and intimate setting. Wednesday, November 19th 12 :00 –…
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The Russians are Coming! Русские идут!
Dr. Charles Abramovic and his Sensational Students Return! Early Russian Animated Shorts Music by Dmitri Shostakovich What better way to kick off a spooky weekend than with early Russian silent film and music by Shostakovich! Screenings of The Cameraman’s Revenge (Ladislas Starewicz, 1910) and Romance with a Double Bass (Kai Hansen, 1911) will be…
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See, Hear, and Listen to Music with Classical Music in Video!
Temple University Libraries now has Classical Music in Video! See and hear the world’s top artists performing masterpieces of music in Classical Music in Video. See Daniel Barenboim playing Liszt’s Annees de Pelerinage , Simon Rattle conducting Carmina Burana, or Gil Shaham playing Brahms Violin Concerto. Attend masterclasses by Andras Schiff , Evelyn Glennie, Kurt Masur, or Maxim Vengerov. See interviews with legends such as Yehudi Menuhin, Iannis Xenakis,…
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The Timeless Genius of J.S. Bach – for free!
From Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press The free featured download from Classical Music Library is Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Trio Sonata No. 4, BWV 528.” Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist, and arguably one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. The organ sonata represents a diversion from the…