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New in the Library: Prokofiev. Piano sonata no. 7, op. 83. Fingering by Alexander Melnikov. G. Henle Verlag, 2024. Link below.
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
New in the Library: Prokofiev. Piano sonata no. 7, op. 83. Fingering by Alexander Melnikov. G. Henle Verlag, 2024. Link below.
Read Mark Schulman's profile and interview with Patti Lupone in this week's issue of The New Yorker, which is free to the MSM community through the Library. Link below.
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Read Mark Schulman's profile and interview with Patti Lupone in this week's issue of The New Yorker, which is free to the MSM community through the Library. Link below.
Banu Mushtaq's "Heart lamp" is the 2025 winner of the International Booker Prize.
"Praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested caste and religious oppression."
"Praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested caste and religious oppression."
May 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Banu Mushtaq's "Heart lamp" is the 2025 winner of the International Booker Prize.
"Praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested caste and religious oppression."
"Praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested caste and religious oppression."
The Chopin waltz that was discovered in the Morgan Library last year has just been published by Henle. Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg vouches for the piece's authenticity in his preface. Download the Henle edition using the Henle Library App; see below.
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Chopin waltz that was discovered in the Morgan Library last year has just been published by Henle. Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg vouches for the piece's authenticity in his preface. Download the Henle edition using the Henle Library App; see below.
New in the Library: Symphony no. 5 for orchestra / Gustav Mahler ; edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel, Nick Pfefferkorn. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2025. Large score. Link below.
May 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New in the Library: Symphony no. 5 for orchestra / Gustav Mahler ; edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel, Nick Pfefferkorn. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2025. Large score. Link below.
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James : a novel / Percival Everett. New York : Doubleday, 2024. Free through the Library by using the Ebsco Mobile app. Link below.
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James : a novel / Percival Everett. New York : Doubleday, 2024. Free through the Library by using the Ebsco Mobile app. Link below.
Singers, pianists: Have you tried the MSM Library's subscription to Art Song Transpositions? Using it, you'll find songs transcribed into many non-standard keys. If they don't have the key you need, you can request it, and have it in a few days.
All transpositions are edited by a human musician!
All transpositions are edited by a human musician!
May 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Singers, pianists: Have you tried the MSM Library's subscription to Art Song Transpositions? Using it, you'll find songs transcribed into many non-standard keys. If they don't have the key you need, you can request it, and have it in a few days.
All transpositions are edited by a human musician!
All transpositions are edited by a human musician!
Composer Matthew Aucoin asks, “What Is Music?” in the May issue of The Atlantic, which you can read online or download to a reader through the Library; see below for details.
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Composer Matthew Aucoin asks, “What Is Music?” in the May issue of The Atlantic, which you can read online or download to a reader through the Library; see below for details.
Link below. Free New York Times article, with video examples.
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Link below. Free New York Times article, with video examples.
New to stream in Medici TV: Verdi's "Don Carlo," live from La Scala in 1992, with Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Daniela Dessì, Luciana D'Intino, and Paolo Coni. Riccardo Muti is the conductor, and the production is by Franco Zeffirelli. Link in the comments.
April 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New to stream in Medici TV: Verdi's "Don Carlo," live from La Scala in 1992, with Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Daniela Dessì, Luciana D'Intino, and Paolo Coni. Riccardo Muti is the conductor, and the production is by Franco Zeffirelli. Link in the comments.
Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) : for alto saxophone and orchestra / Tyshawn Sorey. Edition Peters, 2024.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now available in the Library. Link in the comments.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now available in the Library. Link in the comments.
April 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) : for alto saxophone and orchestra / Tyshawn Sorey. Edition Peters, 2024.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now available in the Library. Link in the comments.
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now available in the Library. Link in the comments.
Celebrate Ravel's 150th birthday today with the Henle Library App, which offers 17 of the composer's works that you can read on your tablet or download to your personal files as a PDF. Free to all in the MSM community! See the comments for the link to sign up.
March 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Celebrate Ravel's 150th birthday today with the Henle Library App, which offers 17 of the composer's works that you can read on your tablet or download to your personal files as a PDF. Free to all in the MSM community! See the comments for the link to sign up.
New in the Library: The Taubman approach to piano technique : a comprehensive guide to overcome physical limitations and unlock your full pianistic potential / Edna Golandsky. Mascot Books, 2024. libraryguides.msmnyc.edu/new-additions
February 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
New in the Library: The Taubman approach to piano technique : a comprehensive guide to overcome physical limitations and unlock your full pianistic potential / Edna Golandsky. Mascot Books, 2024. libraryguides.msmnyc.edu/new-additions
Through our subscription to Digital Theatre+, available at home to all MSM students and faculty, you have access to a number of video and written resources pertaining to Sondheim's "Into the Woods": login.msmnyc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=ht...
February 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Through our subscription to Digital Theatre+, available at home to all MSM students and faculty, you have access to a number of video and written resources pertaining to Sondheim's "Into the Woods": login.msmnyc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=ht...
Edith Mathis, 11 February 1938 – 9 February 2025.
There are four videos available to the MSM community through the Library's subscription to Medici TV; follow the link in the comments.
There are four videos available to the MSM community through the Library's subscription to Medici TV; follow the link in the comments.
February 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Edith Mathis, 11 February 1938 – 9 February 2025.
There are four videos available to the MSM community through the Library's subscription to Medici TV; follow the link in the comments.
There are four videos available to the MSM community through the Library's subscription to Medici TV; follow the link in the comments.
New in the Library: Mahler's symphonic world : music for the age of uncertainty / Karol Berger. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Link to the ebook in the comments.
February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New in the Library: Mahler's symphonic world : music for the age of uncertainty / Karol Berger. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Link to the ebook in the comments.
Just published to coincide with Black History Month, and available as an ebook through the Library: Lucy Caplan. Dreaming in ensemble: how Black artists transformed American opera. Harvard University Press, 2025. Link in the comments.
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just published to coincide with Black History Month, and available as an ebook through the Library: Lucy Caplan. Dreaming in ensemble: how Black artists transformed American opera. Harvard University Press, 2025. Link in the comments.