Rays of sun poured over the Galleria during the Art of the Violin concert on Monday, April 21. The concert is the last of the semester and offered a particularly rich array of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and contemporary selections. In…
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New ACRL Book Chapter Celebrates SBU Libraries’ Concert Series
Gisele Schierhorst, Head of the Music Library, and Christine Fena, Undergraduate Success Librarian, authored a discussion and analysis of the impact the Libraries’ ongoing concert series has had both on SBU music students and the larger SBU community. The chapter,…
Posted in About Us, Events, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Music, Music Library Tagged with: library collaborations, library concerts, Melville Library, music library
Pop Up Music Library
Yesterday our Spring 2023 social media interns hosted a special Pop Up Music Library in the North Reading Room’s Learning Lab. The event was designed to introduce students to the library’s rich music resources and provide a relaxing, alternative space…
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Service Recognition
On March 2nd, the University celebrated significant milestones for those who have achieved 25 or more years of service. In the library’s we were honored to celebrate the achievements of several team members who have reached milestones of 25, 30,…
Posted in About Us, Health Sciences Library, Libraries, Melville Library, Music Library, Special Collections & University Archives Tagged with: years of service
Primary Sources in Music: Eighteen Portraits
Music Library volunteer Samuel Wallach produced the following essay about a collection of musical and artistic portraits created by composer Virgil Thomson and artist Maurice Grosser. The work is entitled “Eighteen Portraits,” and the Music Library owns a manuscript facsimile…
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The Sound of Music in the Library
A full house packed the Special Collections Seminar Room on Wednesday, October 19, to listen to Gems from the Music Library’s Vinyl Collection. Gisele Schierhorst, Head of the Music Library, played selections from the over 26,000 LPs that are discoverable…
Vinyl Notes: The Louisville Orchestra
On the latest edition of the Music Library’s YouTube series, librarian Gisele Schierhorst presents the story of the Louisville Orchestra. More specifically, she takes us on a tour of the library’s collection of First Edition Records, Louisville’s own recording label.…
Did You Catch Vinyl Notes for the Holidays?
Music librarian Gisele Schierhorst shared some holiday favorites in Vinyl Notes #2, the Libraries’ YouTube series highlighting the hidden treasures in our LP collection. This time out, Gisele focused on vocal recordings around the theme of the season. She provides…
Vinyl Notes from the Music Library
Did you know that the Music Library has an extensive collection of LPs available to students along with on-site record players to play them? If you did not grow up collecting vinyl records then you may not realize the amount…
Music Library acquires Matthew Barnson scores
The Music Library has recently added a number of works by Music Department faculty member Matthew Barnson to our collections. Professor Barnson teaches composition, electronic music, theory and the history of music after 1945. He composes for orchestras, choirs, string quartets, voices, chamber ensembles,…
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