Free Summer Entertainment!

Summer is a good time to remember that the Libraries are not just about research and course readings!  We have several collections to help you enjoy summer:

• An extensive DVD collection including comedy, drama, action, TV shows and family fare.  You may check out 2 DVDs at a time for one week to help kids through those long drives.
• A "Current Literature" collection with recent fiction and non-fiction. (beach reading!)
• Don't have that DVD player in the car yet?  We have a great selection of audio books on CD.

The above collections are all on the first floor of Jackson Library.

And there's more: 

• Schiffman Music Library in the Music Building has a wonderful collection of CDs.  You may not find top 40 there but plenty of classical, jazz and musical comedy.

And we have great online collections, too, available 24/7 to anyone with a UNCG ID.

• Online audio books.  These are available through NCLIVE so if you have a NC public library card you may access them through that as well.
• A good variety of  streaming films and streaming music

 

Happy Summer!

xoxo,
Irma

New Materials in the Harold Schiffman Music Library

Have you seen the renovations at the newly renamed Harold Schiffman Music Library yet? If not, make a new years resolution to head over the music building and check it out. Here are some of the newer materials located over there to help tempt you even more!

Books:

Dissonant divas in Chicana music : the limits of la onda by Deborah R Vargas

Shpil : the art of playing klezmer by Yale Strom

Not without madness : perspectives on opera by Fabrizio Della Seta; Mark Weir

Scores:

Scherzo-Tango by Sébastien Vachez; Sylvain Lemay

De-Cadenza: for accordion and String Quartet by Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Stunden-Blumen, hommage á Olivier Messiaen : for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano / Stunden-Blumen, hommage á Olivier Messiaen : for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano by Toshio Hosokawa

Piano sonata no. 2  by Adolphus Hailstork.

Irma Minerva TV: An Interview with Sarah Dorsey, UNCG's Music Librarian

In this debut edition of Irma Minerva TV, a new feature here in our audio magazine, IMTV spoke with Sarah Dorsey, Head Music Librarian for the UNCG School of Music. In her interview, Sarah discusses her music background, what it's like to work in a music library, and she gives some important advice to students.



Host: Andrew Holt Williams

Time: 5:12

Music: "Morning Sunrise" by Pete Calandra and Scott Schreer (freeplaymusic.com)

Links:

• The UNCG Music Library
• Sarah Dorsey's Homepage
• Ask a Music Librarian
• Indiana University's Music Library Association (MLA) Clearinghouse- a listing of sites and other resources related to music librarianship.
  

Old Time Ensemble @ UNCG

In this podcast we chat with members of the Old Time Ensemble, a traditional American music group consisting of students and faculty at UNCG who will be preforming (for FREE) Saturday April 18 5:30pm at the School of Music Organ Hall and Tuesday April 21 at 5pm at Tate Street Coffee House, Greensboro.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, Sarah Dorsey (sarah_dorsey@uncg.edu ), & J. Revell Carr (jrcarr2@uncg.edu)

Time: 8:57 |Size: 8.2 MB | Download .mp3 | Transcript

All music by Old Time Ensemble: "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Ensemble; "Cindy" - Ensemble, with Revell Carr, vocal; " Sweet Betsy From Pike" - Sarah Dorsey, cello and lead vocal, D. Travis Clem, mandolin; Gavin Douglas, penny whistle; Nicole Peregine, viola; "Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" - Nicole Peregine, viola and lead vocal; D. Travis Clem, mandolin; Christen Blanton, fiddle; Mark Dillon, banjo; Revell Carr, hambone; Gavin Douglas, hand claps; "Sail Away, Ladies" - Ensemble, with Travis Clem, lead vocal

Links:

• School of Music
• Music Library
  
• Music Library Streaming Music Databases

All About the Music Library

In this week's podcast, the Music Library is highlighted. Listen to the staff and students discuss what the Music Library can do for you and why you should stop by for a visit.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Sarah Dorsey, MK Amos, Gavin Brown, Ted Hunter, and Hansi Hoskins.

Music: (all music from UNCG Music Library collection)

• Borodin. String Quartet No. 2 in D Third Movement, Notturno (Andante). Musical Heritage Society, 1996.
• Mengelberg Concertgebouw Orchestra. Beethoven. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67. Hamburg, Germany : Teldec, [1999], 1937.
• Davis, Miles. Freddie Freeloader. Kind of Blue. New York, NY: Columbia, [1987?].
• Fiddle Fever. Ashokan Farewell. Roots Music: An American Journey. Cambridge, Mass.: Rounder, 2001.

Time: 8:04

Links: Music Library Homepage

transcript (PDF)