MUS 520, “Introduction to Research,” is now underway for the Music Department’s graduate students pursuing MA and DMA degrees in performance. Topics covered include study of the Library’s music manuscripts, the practice of musical borrowing during the Renaissance, the concepts of rhythm and structure in music of the Baroque period,
Join us on Friday, May 3 at this symposium exploring Walt Whitman’s impact on literature, music, and the visual arts. The event will culminate with a lecture and performance featuring 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin, composer and writer of the opera Crossing, based on Whitman’s Civil War writings. Leading American
On Thursday, November 8, Dr. Margarethe Adams will give her presentation, “Treading Across the Precarious Present: Music, Pilgrimage, and Healing in Kazakhstan.” Kazakhstan’s shrine pilgrimages are widely varying in scope and kind, including sites dedicated to traditional musicians. The sacred focus of two such pilgrimages feature the
Edvard Grieg’s (1843-1907) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 16 is one of the most popular works of its kind in the history of classical music. Composed in 1868, it is his only completed concerto (there are sketches for a second concerto that was never finished). Grieg himself was a
Thursday, March 22, 2018 – Updated: 2:22pm Due to inclement weather, the University Libraries are operating on a modified schedule. For updates on university-wide closings, please visit SB Alerts. The following libraries have modified hours: North Reading Room: 9:30am – Midnight Music Library: 10am – 5pm MASIC: 10am – 5pm
collection recently published by Stony Brook University Libraries. Photographs from the Otto F. Ege compiled portfolio Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI Century are featured. Special Collections, Stony Brook University Libraries owns portfolio “No. 19” of the 40 unique sets created by Ege. Register for the free April 19 lecture
A small but rich subset of the Music Library’s sound recordings collection covers many landmark moments in Black history through music, literature, drama, activism and oratory. Below are further details highlighting particular items of interest. More will be added throughout the month: Carmichael, Stokely. Black Power I. Dialectics of Liberation
The film screening of the movie, RUMBLE, on November 30 in the Wang Theater drew many students, faculty and staff. The event was co-sponsored by the University Libraries Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer. It was shown in recognition of Native America Heritage
“Germs, Genocides, and America’s Indigenous Peoples” a lecture by Paul Kelton in honor of Native American Heritage Month November 27, 2017 @ 2pm Special Collections Seminar Room (E-2340), second floor of the Melville Library Many Indigenous people and increasingly scholars believe that genocides occurred against the Americas’ Indigenous Peoples. Yet,
Due to illness today’s scheduled performance by Cuatro Basso is postponed. We apologize for any inconvenience. –Gisele Schierhorst
