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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, Opera, Performing music, Recordings, Spirituals, Talking Books, Uncategorized, Vocal music, Voyager Catalog, Women in Music

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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