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…
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The Music Library’s Reel-to-Reel Recordings
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…
Library Concert Series: Fall Chamber Music Festival 2016
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…
Turmoil Radio: A Trove of Punk Rock Music History & Culture
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival July 31-August 28, 2016
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…
University’s Calidore String Quartet Wins M-Prize
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…
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Library Concert Series: Spring Chamber Music Festival
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…
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Library Concert Series: “The Art of Violin”
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…
Library Concert Series: “The Art of Violin”
Database Trial: RILM Music Encyclopedias
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…
