CFAL News

Please help us welcome our newest addition to CFAL- Clayton Crenshaw. A Baylor alum, he holds the Master of Music degree (Clarinet Performance) and Bachelor of Music Education from the Baylor School of Music. He also holds the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Texas. Most recently he has served at the University of North Texas Health Science Center as the Web Services Librarian and Access Services Librarian over the past eight years. Prior to that he was at SMU where he served as the circulation manager for the Bridwell Library and Head of Circulation Services for the Hamon Arts Library. He has experience in music and arts festivals and private teaching.

While this isn’t happening in the Fine Arts Library, we wanted to pass the word about this event at Baylor’s Martin Museum of Art on September 13, 2012, from 5:30-7pm. About the photography exhibition:

A lyrical meditation on the joys, wonders, and anxieties of childhood, Fireflies brings us back to the small truths so often pushed aside or forgotten, as we become adults. Informed by Carter’s own imagination-filled days spent playing in early boyhood haunts, these images allow us all to once again inhabit the stories, dreams, and make-believe worlds that children conjure.

For more information about the event, click here.

To visit Keith Carter’s website, click here.

The CFALibrary welcomes three new staff members this month:

Ben Johansen, Audio and Digital Projects Coordinator
b_johansen@baylor.edu

Alison Larson, Fine Arts Weekend Supervisor
alison_larson@baylor.edu

Becky Cahlik, Fine Arts Night Supervisor
rebecca_cahlik@baylor.edu

for more info, visit the Crouch Staff Page

ARTstor and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have released more than 750 images of major artworks from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images document the Guggenheim Museum’s superb holdings in modern and contemporary art by such significant artists as Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others.

This is the first release of a projected 7,000 images of art, exhibition installation views, and architecture from the Foundation. Future releases will include 5,000 installation views spanning from 1990s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, more than 1,000 installations views from the museums in Bilbao and Venice, and 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of these three museum buildings.

read more at: http://artstor.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/now-available-the-solomon-r-guggenheim-foundation/

Baylor access to ARTstor:

on campus: http://www.artstor.org/

off campus: http://ezproxy.baylor.edu/login?url=http://www.artstor.org

New additions to Classical Music Library database: 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) from a wide variety of labels including material from Bel Canto Society; Bridge; Cantolopera; Gimell; Haenssler Classic; Lyrichord; Mark Custom; Mode Records; New Albion; North/South; and Wirripang.

New artists and ensembles include: The Tallis Scholars; Stables Ensemble; Beniamino Gigli; Auer String Quartet; Virginia Wind Symphony; Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic; The Wellesley Chamber Singers; Amadeus Guitar Duo; Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig.

You can see a list of all new content here: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

The Music Online package now contains:
783,199 tracks of music
101,311 pages of text reference
25,634 scores
1,119 hours of video

Baylor folks, access these through: https://www1.baylor.edu/ERD/Search/Search.aspx

Kudos to Baylor School of Music freshman, Stephen Farrell – one of three national finalists in the Gilberto Gagliardi Solo Trombone Competition! He will compete for the international prize in Paris, France, this summer at the International Trombone Festival.

This past Saturday was the final round in the Baylor Concerto Competition final round. Congratulations to Ricardo Gomez was named the winner and will perform Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in the fall with the orchestra.

Other finalists were:
Jill Chronister, cello – Lalo Concerto in D minor
Angel Elizondo, euphonium – Cosma Concerto
Deborah Hui, piano – Ravel
Garret Jones, clarinet – von Weber Concerto No. 2
Alexander Kostadinov, piano – Liszt Concerto No. 1
Matt Reynolds, horn – Pilss Concerto
Will Smith, oboe – Vaughan Williams

Congratulations to all of you!

CML just added another 1,409 albums (35,688 tracks) from the EMI label. There are now over 50,000 tracks of EMI content in the collection.

New content comes from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more.

Highlights include recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jussi Bjorling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Itzhak Perlman, Renata Scotto, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie, Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Also included in this release are hundreds of full length operas, including:
*Puccini – Turandot (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Puccini – La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma)
*Mozart – Don Giovanni (Joan Sutherland, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Puccini – Tosca (Placido Domingo, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Mozart – Così fan tutte (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*R. Strauss – Elektra (Eva Marton, des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
*Donizetti – Don Pasquale (Beverly Sills, Ambrosian Opera)
*Gounod – Faust (Thomas Allen, National Opera of Paris)
*Bellini – Norma (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Massenet – Manon (Roberto Alagna, La Monnaie)
…and many more.

Other new albums include:
*Walton conducts Walton: Symphony No. 1, Belshazzar’s Feast
*Bela Bartók: Mikrokosmos Books 1-6
*Ireland: Piano Concerto and solo piano works
*Mendelssohn: Elias
*Penderecki: Orchestral Works
*Joyne Hands – English Renaissance Music
*Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos
*Simon Rattle Edition: Britten
*Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spiral 1 & Japan
*20th Century Classics: Arvo Pärt

Altogether, CML now includes 134,381 tracks

Music Online, the umbrella interface for all the Alexander Street Press music resources (available to Baylor folks) now includes:
764,751 tracks
100,030 pages text reference
24,977 scores (417,083 pages)
889 hours of video

get busy listening!

The Robert H. Young Memorial Concert will be at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, in the Foyer of Meditation at Armstrong Browning Library.

Seating is limited, so free tickets are required. To secure tickets, call the School of Music box office at 254-710-3571. Be sure to specify how many you desire and whether you prefer to attend the afternoon performance or the evening performance.

This concert, celebrating the life of Robert H. Young (who passed away on July 29 at the age of 88), will include performances by the Baylor University Chamber Singers and Baylor University Chamber Orchestra, with the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edward Elgar, Samuel Barber, Morten Lauridsen, and of course Dr. Young himself.