Singing Out!
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
NLS Music Section salutes Marian Anderson, African-American soprano for African-American month February, 2022.
Posted in: Braille Music, Metropolitan Opera, Performing music, Uncategorized
Category: Metropolitan Opera
Hello From the Planet Earth
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
Noting the anniversary of the launch of the Voyager 1 spacecraft and music selected from the planet Earth.
Posted in: American Composers, Bach, Braille Music, Classical Music, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, NASA, NLS Music Section
A Salute to Divas
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
The noun 'Diva' has gained popularity in usage to describe some current pop female singers; but this title was used in the past for gifted opera sopranos as a sign of respect.
Posted in: Braille Music, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, NLS Music Section
From Anderson to Zaninelli: Audio Lessons for Classical Singing
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
Learn to sing classical art songs and arias with audio lessons available from the NLS Music Section!
Posted in: African American History month, Art Songs, Audio, Blind Musicians, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Catalogs, Classical Music, Joaquin Rodrigo, Lieder, Metropolitan Opera, Music Instruction, NLS Online Catalog, Performing music, Recordings, Talking Books, Uncategorized, Vocal music, Voyager Catalog, Women in Music
Carnegie Hall of the South: Nashville’s Musical Legacy, Part 2
Posted by: Lindsay Conway
This is the second half of a two-part post on Nashville’s musical history and related books in the NLS Music Collection. Read the first part here: Athens of the South: Nashville’s Musical Legacy, Part 1. Nashville’s most famous music venue, the Ryman Auditorium, was completed in 1892 and was originally a church called the Union …
Posted in: American Composers, Art Songs, Audio, Band, Blues, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Catalogs, Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Large Print, Large Print Music, Libretto, March, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Nashville, NLS Music Section, Orchestra, Performing music, Piano, Piano Music, Recordings, Talking Books, Uncategorized, Vocal music, Women in Music
Going with “Ahmal” Once Again
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
“Oh, no—opera!” I thought as the recording of Amahl and the Night Visitors started. I was perhaps a fourth grader at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children in Pittsburgh then, hearing this one-act opera for the first time. Although I could not always understand the words, I had to admit that the mother’s operatic …
Posted in: American Composers, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Braille Music, Classical Music, Libretto, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Vocal music
Vacation Listening, and Much More
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
On May 13, I was baking cookies and listening to the Met Broadcast of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. One of the announcers explained that this production would take place not in the 18th century, but in 1911, the year it was composed (also the year that Mahler died, I thought to myself). And that’s when it …
Posted in: Audio, Braille, Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD, Braille libretto, Classical Music, Large Print Music, Libretto, MahlerFest, Metropolitan Opera, NLS Music Section
For Braille Readers—A Real Treasure Trove
Posted by: Gilbert Busch
This afternoon, I looked at the Metropolitan Opera schedule, which appears in the October-December issue of our quarterly magazine The Musical Mainstream. It lists all of the operas to be performed, along with NLS materials, librettos, lectures, etc., pertaining to the operas. Nowhere did I find any mention of a reference book that I read …
Posted in: Braille, Braille libretto, Magazines, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation
One Name Only
Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins
Today we are honoring a superstar in opera. You know someone is famous when they are referred to by only one name; Michelangelo, Beethoven, Bach, Picasso. And that is just a short list of artists and composers. What about performers? Who can possibly be ingrained in the memory of fans to be remembered by one …
Posted in: Audio, Metropolitan Opera, Music History and Appreciation, Performing music, Recordings