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Blog topic: Music
New exhibit at the East Asia Library - Mario Paci: An Italian Maestro in China
January 23, 2017 - April 22, 2017
Located in the entrance hall of the East Asian Library, "Mario Paci: An Italian Maestro in China" features an exhibition of of selected materials from the Mario Paci Papers, a collection of documents, photographs, and musical scores donated to Stanford University Libraries in 2013 by Floria and Alexander Zaharoff, Paci's daughter and grandson, with the assistance of Stanford professor Jindong Cai. This important collection of documents is held in Stanford University Libraries Special Collections, and has recently been digitized.
Purcell remembered: The history of the autographed manuscript of Purcell’s Te Deum & Jubilate for Voices and Instruments Made for St. Cecilia’s Day 1694
Henry Purcell. Te Deum & Jubilate for Voices and Instruments made for St. Cecilia’s Day 1694.
Memorial Library of Music, MLM 850
Guest blogger: Michael Evans Kinney
While not much is known about the early St. Cecilia’s Day celebrations circa 1683, England’s premier composer, Henry Purcell (1659-1695), wrote many pieces for the festivities. In 1694, he wrote one such piece, titled Te Deum & Jubilate for Voices and Instruments made for St. Cecilia’s Day 1694. The landmark work sets an English translation of the St. Ambrose Hymn and revolutionized church music with its scoring for violins, viola, basso continuo, and two trumpets, with soloists and choir.
Medici.tv has a brand new look
Medici.tv just unveiled a sleek new interface for institutional subscribers. If you haven’t yet tried this classical music streaming video database, I encourage you to check it out now.
The medici.tv database includes
- 3,000 musical works captured from the 1940’s to the present day
- 1,700 films including concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, and master classes
- Over 100 live events broadcast every year from the most prestigious concert halls and classical music festivals, including exclusive live-streamed events
Disappeared poet Weldon Kees surfaces in San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation collection
Weldon Kees was unknown to me when I started processing the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation collection about three months ago. In photographs, Kees has dark hair combed neatly to one side, a matching moustache, and an intense gaze. He was most often photographed wearing a tweed suit with a sweater vest and tie and holding a cigarette. He dabbled in a number of things (among them: Communism, novel-writing, Abstract Expressionist painting, psychotherapy) but, over time, it has become clear that Kees best made a name for himself through poetry.
Introducing the Bear Family Records collection
Founded by Richard Weize in 1975, the German re-issue label Bear Family Records has been a leader in reissuing lavishly produced box sets of American roots music, with a particular focus on American country music (and related genres) from the 1920s through the 1980s. Bear Family’s box sets are impeccably curated, with recordings sourced from the best known copies, or master tapes whenever possible. The reissued recordings are accompanied by extensively researched discographies and book-length liner notes. Bear Family recordings have been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including 17 ARSC (Association for Record Sound Collections) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research and 6 Grammy nominations.
Music exhibit about Mario Paci in Shanghai
On October 14, the exhibit, “Mario Paci and Music Culture in Shanghai: A Special Exhibition in Commemoration of Mario Paci,” opened at Shanghai Symphony Hall to commemorate 70 years since the death of the Symphony’s revered founding conductor. The exhibit is a collaborative project between the Stanford University Libraries, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
![Antiphonary leaf, ca. 1400 [detail]. Stanford University Libraries, M0150](https://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/150xh/public/blog/image/screen_shot_2016-11-09_at_1.12.37_pm.png?itok=s3qTrNu- "Antiphonary leaf, ca. 1400 [detail]. Stanford University Libraries, M0150 -- Image by Ray HeigemeirSUL")
New music scores and facsimiles, Winter 2017
For your browsing pleasure, we present the following list of new titles added to composer complete editions, historical sets, and facsimiles.