http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music The official blog of the Music Library at Duke Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:59:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en French chamber music performed by Dutton, Davis and Biggs,  in review.Share This http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/04/22/french-chamber-music/ The Philharmonic Quintet of New York, in Durham, reviewed.Share This http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/04/15/the-philharmonic-quintet-of-new-york/ The Jupiter String Quartet in Raleigh, reviewed.Share This http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/04/15/the-jupiter-string-quartet/ If Friedrich August Kummer is not a household word in your home, no reason for concern - he is one of the prolific Kleinmeistern of the post-Beethoven generation, a generation for which the cost of printing had dropped so much that it was financially possible for a composer to produce ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/03/28/friedrich-august-kummer/   Saxophonist Sonny Rollins (b. 1930) is one of the greats of American music, with a long and active career dating back to the fifties, when he worked with such luminaries as Max Roach, Clifford Brown and Thelonious Monk. Rollins took two well-known sabbaticals and recording, the second of coincided with the ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/03/28/sonny-rollins/ What can be said about Hermeto Pascoal? He is one of the great originals, not just in Brazil, but worldwide. From an American perspective his music may seem to belong to or draw on jazz (he worked with many jazz greats during his stay in the USA in the 1970's, ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/03/06/hermeto-pascoal/   Professor Salomea Gandelman of the University of Rio de Janeiro is the author of a very important guide to the Brazilian repertoire for piano (36 compositores brasileiros : obras para piano (1950-1988)), which identifies and describes works for piano, piano four hands and two pianos by 36 leading composers, with ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/03/06/brazilian-music-for-piano-1950-1988/ For those of you who have been putting off reading it, now there are no more excuses. The Music Library now has a circulating copy of Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music. ML160 .T18 2005  Share This http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/03/04/taruskins-history/ It is a measure of the classic status that the music of Miles Davis has acquired in American culture that a single LP produced for Columbia in the 1960s (Miles Smiles) is the focus of a short monograph from Indiana University Press. The fact that the author of the monograph, ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/02/29/miles-smiles/   Ravi Shankar - dozens of recordings at the Duke Music Library Duke music-lovers may be interested to know that our Music Library has a very substantial collection of recordings of the classical music of India, available on LP, CD and cassette. If you are a fan of sitar, sarod, and tabla, ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/music/2008/02/28/ragas-for-the-connoisseur/