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New BARD Additions: April 2020

Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins

With this BARD update, we are excited to announce two podcast series from Smithsonian Folkways, Tapestry of the Times and Sound Sessions. We have also added more piano by ear and guitar by ear instructional titles, along with braille scores for piano, organ, and flute. If you don’t use BARD or would like to borrow …

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Opera Fans Know What’s Happening, but the Devil is in the Details or…Libretti for Everybody!

Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins

Some of the Music Section’s most ardent patrons are operagoers.  This comes as no surprise to other opera aficionados, but blind/low vision operagoers are usually not able to pick up a program in braille or large print and read a synopsis when they arrive at the theater; that is, until they (or the opera companies) …