Composer and CIM alumnus, Hale Smith, died last Tuesday at the age of 84.  An obituary may be found at the New York Times.  Another remembrance by T.J. Anderson may be found at the NewMusicBox (American Music Center).

The Robinson Music Library collection features orchestral works, chamber music and vocal compositions by Hale Smith.  The following list highlights these scores & recordings describing their locations in our collection (or online).

Please note that some links in this post require use of the VPN Client when accessed outside of the Case Western Reserve University campus network.

Help people in your community & wipe out your library overdue fines.

From December 1 – 15th, donating 1 item of non-perishable food will waive up to $1 in late-return library fines.

Bring your items to the library’s Circulation Desk.

Donations will be given to the Cleveland Food Bank before the holidays when the need is always great.

Please Note: Fines cannot be removed for lost or damaged items, since our ability to replace those items depends on recovering the costs.  This program does not apply to fines at other libraries.

You do not have to have a library fine to participation.  Any student, faculty or staff member is welcome to donate to this program.

You will find the latest additions to our printed & audio/visual collection on our New Acquisitions guide.   This month’s guide features the music of Nina Rota.

Cleveland Institute of Music LibGuides – New Acquisitions – New Scores.

Take a virtual tour of the library web pages.  This five minute tour describes the organization of our new web pages and overviews the variety of online resources it links to.

New additions to our DVD collection include….

Les Huguenots – Giacomo Meyerbeer
Call Number: DVDc 509
Dame Joan Sutherland’s farewell performance to the operatic stage, this production captures the horror and tragedy of the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as well as the splendor and romance of 16th century France.

The First Emperor – Tan Dun
Call Number: DVDc 511
The first emperor is an epic story of love, power and betrayal. The story centers on the Emperor Qin, the first emperor of China, a controversial and brutal ruler best known for unifying the country, building the Great Wall, and creating a vast army of terra cotta soldiers to guard his tomb.

La forza del destino- Giuseppe Verdi
Call Number: DVDc 513
Recorded live at the Teatro Comunale, Firenze, 2007.

Roméo et Julíette – Charles Gounod
Call Number: DVDc 514
Recorded in performance, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg Festival 2008.

L’elisir d’amore – Gaetano Donizetti
Call Number: DVDc 516
Recorded at the Opéra national de Paris, June 2006.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – Kurt Weill
Call Number: DVDc 517
Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is ‘in’ and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust and the pursuit of pleasure, where cash is king and poverty is punishable by death.

La vie parisienne – Jacques Offenbach
Call Number: DVDc 518
Recorded in performance Dec. 26, 28-29, 2007, Opéra national de Lyon.

Don Gregorio – Gaetano Donizetti
Call Numbers: DVDc 520

The Minotaur – Harrison Birtwistle
Call Number: DVDc 521
Recorded in performance, Apr. 25 & 30 and May 3, 2008, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Other new DVDs:

A celebration of Leonard Bernstein: opening night at Carnegie Hall 2008
Call Number: DVDc 515

Le sacre du printemps – Igor Stravinsky
Call Number: DVDc 519
Seen here is the legendary two-part Sacre du printemps from the final years of his creative life, complemented by the film Soulscapes, a highly personal and moving portrait of Uwe Scholz with excerpts from his most important ballets.

Today, the Cleveland Institute of Music unveiled a new design for www.cim.edu.

We are excited about our new library web site: www.cim.edu/library.   We tried to put the most requested items on all the pages, including popular online tools such as Grove Music Online, forms and a list of our digital streaming collections.  Therefore, on the right side of every library page, you will see a list of Links, Forms and Listen.  Under “Listen” you can link to the digital streaming services we subscribe to.

We are introducing an Ask a Librarian service where you can submit questions to our Reference Librarian, Bonnie Eggers electronically.

To access many of the resources, you will need to have the VPN Client installed on your home computer.  See our Connect Off-Campus page for more information.

A new feature is  Resources for You. We have arranged this section grouping together the most popular links for each type of library patron.

Please take some time to explore our pages.  Your feedback is most welcome.

• MT 6.Bu928m R524 – Musical Poetics by Joachim Burmeister. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
• MT 100.St83 G875ig – Igor Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress by Paul Griffiths. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• MT 883.C654p 1982 – Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias by Berton Coffin et al. 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1982.
• ML 275.5.K156t – The Twisted Music: Musicians and their Music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• ML 410.Be393 L814be – Beethoven: the Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
• ML 410.Sch63 Sch63 – Schoenberg and His World edited by Walter Frisch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
• ML 410. Sh82 Sh822 1995. Shostakovich Studies edited by David Fanning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• ML 420.H783m – Marilyn Horne: my Life by Marilyn Horne. New York: Atheneum, 1984.
• ML 1733.2.R71op – Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Ellen Rosand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

The following titles were added to our shelves in June.

• Adlington, Robert, ed. Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the Sixties. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ML 3916.So84.
• Blevins, Pamela. Ivor Gurney & Marion Scott. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008. ML 410.G966 BL617iv
• Bohlman, Philip V., ed. Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ML 3776.J556 Bo634 and CDc 13,436
• Cirone, Anthony J. On Musical Interpretation in Percussion Performance. Gatesville, MD: Meredith Music, 2008.  MT 655.C496on.
• Ertan, Deniz. Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought and Art. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2009. ML 410.R833 Er88d
• Fruhauf, Tina. The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.  ML 626.F94or.
• Rice, John A. Mozart on the Stage. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2009. ML 410.M877 R363m
• Rowe, Mark W. Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. ML 418.Er66 R792h.
• Seldes, Barry. Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2009. ML 422.Be458 Se48L
• Weiner, Howard T., ed. Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and other Popular Traditions. Lanham: MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. ML 3505.9.Ea76

Shrock, Dennis. Choral Repertoire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Ref. ML 128.C456 Sh87c

Choral Repertoire is a descriptive survey of the choral music of the Western hemisphere as selected by the author, Dennis Shrock, according to the “historical significance” of the composer.  The book lists composers by country within the standard historical eras.  The author has selected to organize all content by “relative importance” with the exception of composers who are listed chronologically within the preceding categories.  A composer index is included to facilitate locating specific entries.  The author provides a historical overview of choral music for each era and country as well as a discussion of the specific composer’s general biography and choral music output.  Choral compositions are described including date, catalog number, scoring, and timing.

Thompson, J. Mark, ed.  Solos for the Student Trombonist. Vuarmarens, Switzerland: Brass Press, 2004. Ref. ML 128.T75 So47 2004

A bibliography of solos for solo trombone (both tenor, bass, and alto trombones) arranged by Grade level (from Grade 3 to 6).  Descriptive information for each work includes composer, title, editor, publisher, duration, range, degree of difficulty,  clefs used and special performance techniques etc.  Recordings of each solo are also listed.    The book includes several appendices including a complete list of recordings as well as indexes by title and composer.

Bayne, Pauline Shaw. A Guide to Library Research in Music. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Ref. ML 3797.Ba344g

In A Guide to Library Research in Music, Pauline Shaw Bayne provides a comprehensive manual on the intricacies of research methods and information tools in the field of music.  Aimed at the graduate student in music, the book is organized into three parts:  The Short Course; Music Research and Writing; How To: Discovery and Use Resources; and Resources: The Literature of Music.  This book may be used for individual study but could also serve as a class textbook.  The author provides learning exercises throughout the book.

Naxos Music Library announced today that 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will be completely available through Naxos Music Library.  As of today, they have released the preliminary rounds and the winner’s recordings.

To explore these recordings on Naxos Music Library, search by the keyword “Van Cliburn” and all related recordings will be listed.

You can hear the winners’ recordings by searching these catalog numbers:

Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medalists

• Nobuyuki Tsujii: VCF090523D
• Haochen Zhang: VCF090525F