Gisele Schierhorst

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 the items is the final DMA recital of Dr. Jacques

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Met Opera on Demand Now Available!

Enjoy instant access to more than 600 full-length Met performances with this online streaming database for college and university libraries!  Our Met Opera on Demand subscription now accommodates 5 simultaneous users.  It can be accessed from the University Libraries’ databases page, with a proxied link at: http://proxy.library.stonybrook.edu/login?url=http://metopera.org/season/on-demand   -G. Schierhorst

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MUS 520 Celebrates LPs and Manuscripts!

Each Fall semester MUS 520, a bibliography and research skills course, is offered to new DMA students in the Music Department’s performance program.  This year the curriculum began with an assignment assessing the value of content found in the Music Library’s LP collection.  Like Juilliard, Yale, Northwestern and other academic

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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 composer’s chamber works K. 13, 285, 548 and 493 by

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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 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

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Black History Month 2016

Black History Month (February 1 through 29) is a wonderful opportunity to navigate resources in the Melville Library which describe the multitude of events, places and contributions of peoples of African descent!  The following electronic sources are rich in content and provide ready reference and research information.  Enjoy! African American Newspapers (1827-1998) – This

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Tennessee Williams & SBU Southampton

The traditional holiday Lighting of the Windmill at Stony Brook Southampton will take place Friday, December 4, 2015, from 5-7 pm. Join the Stony Brook Southampton community as they celebrate the iconic Windmill with special guests in the Chancellors Hall lobby before the official lighting. Included activities are Mr. Twisty’s famous balloon

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Library Concert Series: “Art of Violin”

  SBU Libraries, in cooperation with Michael Hershkowitz, Director of Concerts, Department of Music, was honored to present the third of three concerts “Art of Violin” featuring musicians from the Department of Music, Stony Brook University.  It was a beautiful afternoon enjoyed by many students, faculty, staff  and community members.

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Library Concert Series: Undergraduate Chamber Music

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Stony Brook University Libraries’ was honored to host a Chamber Music Concert featuring students from the Undergraduate Music Program. Many thanks to these amazing musicians!!!! Nelsy Badia, Viola Zhenyu Gao, Piano Zhenyu Gao, Piano Primo Mingyue Rao, Piano Secondo Niloufar Nourbaksh, Piano Erynn Mcleod, Voice Niloufar

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