The staff of Oral History of American Music (OHAM) have recently conducted interviews with Bright Sheng, John Luther Adams, Jabala Billy Hart, and Toshiko Akiyoshi. In the next few months, interviews are planned with Guy Klucevsek, David Lang, and first year composition students at the Yale School...
With the recent completion of its renovations, the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibit, on view in its brand-new exhibition space in the corridor outside the Music Library from January 27-April 25. The exhibit, entitled A Riff on Ruff: Yale’s Jazz...
Yale University Libraries has recently enrolled in a free, 30-day trial of MGG Online, a new digital encyclopedia that includes the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) as well as regular updates and newly written articles. The free trial begins on 16 November 2016 and...
We were fortunate to host Thomas Shepard last week for his lecture on recording works by Stephen Sondheim. Shepard, a Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, arranger, orchestrator, and pianist, has produced numerous recordings of Sondheim productions, including Merrily We Roll Along,...
Quicksearch became the featured search box on the Music Library’s website this summer. Quicksearch is a search interface that allows researchers to search across a variety of library resources, presenting results from three groups: Books+, which searches across the two library catalogs (Orbis and...
During the Fall 2016 semester, the Gilmore Music Library will be piloting a new audio and video streaming service, a replacement for the Variations Digital Music System, called Avalon. Initially Avalon will be used to provide e-reserve content for classes, offering mediated streaming access (...
The first phase of the Gilmore Music Library's renovation project is now complete! The result of this phase is a beautifully designed new space on the first floor of the music library that contains:
A new circulation desk
Shelving for current editions of the print periodicals we subscribe too
A...
