The Art in Focus Lecture Series returns on September 26th with Charles A. Riley II, director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, discussing the creative and social ferment of 1920s Paris. Drawing on his 2017 book, Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism, Riley will
The Music Library’s reel-to-reel recordings represent the early history of the University’s Music Department. For several decades, faculty and student recitals, symphony, chamber music and choral concerts were recorded directly to the reels, and archived in the Music Library. Among the items is the final DMA recital of Dr. Jacques
SBU Libraries was proud and honored to host the final concert of the fall 2016 semester on Wednesday, December 14th in the Melville Library Galleria. These amazing musicians are graduate students from the Stony Brook University Department of Music. They give generously of their time and talent to perform for
The Turmoil Radio Collection documents the 24-year run of Steve Kreitzer’s radio program on WUSB-FM (90.1 FM) – the world’s longest running punk rock radio show. Beginning in 1980, the show became a vital part of the Long Island punk and hardcore community, and it remarkably gained renown internationally, long before internet
As a gentle rain poured over eastern Long Island early Sunday evening, a packed sanctuary of concertgoers at Bridgehampton’s Presbyterian Church reveled in Alan Alda’s delightful readings of excerpts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s letters, interspersed with top-notch performances of the composer’s chamber works K. 13, 285, 548 and 493 by
Congratulations to the Calidore String Quartet, in residence at Stony Brook University, for winning the University of Michigan’s $100,000 M-Prize, a major new chamber music award. Here is the Quartet in performance in the Library Galleria in 2015: For more information see the New York Times web site at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/arts/music/calidore-string-quartet-wins-100000-m-prize.html
On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 the Violin Studio’s sixth and final library concert of the year was part of the music department’s Spring Chamber Music Festival. Violinists Yanki Karatas and Emily Daggett Smith presented works by Kreisler and Mozart; violist Micaela Fruend and pianist Hsin-I Huang played Brahms E flat
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Stony Brook University Libraries’ hosted the third in the series, and final concert of the Spring semester, “The Art of Violin” featuring musicians from the department of music. It was a beautiful afternoon enjoyed by students, staff and members of the campus community. Many thanks
SBU Libraries, in cooperation with Michael Hershkowitz, Director of Concerts, and Department of Music faculty member, two time Grammy nominee Jennifer Frautschi, was honored to present the first concert of the Spring 2016 semester featuring violinists and musicians from the Department of Music. Friday, March 11, 2016 was a beautiful afternoon enjoyed
The SBU Libraries will trial RILM Music Encyclopedias (EBSCO) until March 1, 2016. This database is a full-text compilation of 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to 2015 and is comprised of more than 80,000 pages, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. It is an extensive global resource designed
