Alexander Street Press Free Music Download of the Week

Alexander Street Press is offering Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, Op. 8a as their free classical music download of the week on their Website. Every two weeks, they will offer a complete work from their Classical Music Library. To stay up-to-date with the most current offering, you can link to: http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music/

Classical Music Library Free Download of the Week: Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, Op. 8a

“On a tour of South America with the American Ballet Caravan in 1941, Lincoln Kirstein commissioned a ballet from Alberto Ginastera with an Argentine subject. The composer responded with the one-act Estancia.

Choosing a typical Argentine estancia (a cattle ranch on the pampas) as his setting, Ginastera taps into the ‘gauchesco’ literary tradition, quoting from the epic poem Martin Fierro in numbers sung by a baritone. Gauceschos were Argentine cowboys who worked the cattle, and Ginastera quickly became the musical voice of their tradition.

The piece was first performed in Buenos Aries on 12 May 1943.

This recording is performed by the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra; Fernando Lozano, conductor. “

Download this work through April 11, 2008 at: http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo

You Can Now Attach Documents in RefWorks

The new “Attachments” feature allows users to attach non-bibliographic information to their references, much like attaching files to an email message. With the release of this feature, RefWorks users have the ability to organize and store images and documents within their personal database. A variety of information can be “attached” to a RefWorks record including images, compounds, formulas, and spreadsheets to name a few. Check out tutorial at:

http://info.csa.com/refworks/attachment_feature/preview.shtml

Deadline Approaching…

March 24th is the deadline to register to vote in the Pennsylvania Primary. If you have not registered to vote, visit the Rock the Vote website to complete a registration form!

Search WorldCat and JSTOR in Facebook

Facebook users can now utilize WorldCat and JSTOR search application to find library resources. WorldCat is an online catalog of over 50 million items, JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly research journals covering all subject areas.

WorldCat:
http://worldcat.org/toolbars/

JSTOR:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2412474777&ref=s

For JSTOR, you might want to add the library’s proxy information so you can search off-campus. The library’s proxy url for JSTOR is: http://navigator-kutztown.passhe.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/search/

Library adds CQ Global Researcher Database

The CQ Global Researcher meets the increasing demand for balanced, reliable reporting on international issues and crises. Modeled after the renowned, award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher delivers definitive, in-depth coverage of newsworthy global affairs from a multitude of international viewpoints.

Alexander Street Press – Free Download of the Week

Alexander Street Press is offering Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll as their free classical music download of the week on their Website. Every two weeks, they will offer a complete work from their Classical Music Library. To stay up-to-date with the most current offering, you can link to: http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music/

Classical Music Library Free Download of the Week: Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll

“Wagner, grateful for the birth of his son Siegfried, wrote the lyrical Siegfried Idyll as a 33rd birthday present for his wife, Cosima. It was first performed outside her bedroom on Christmas morning 1870 by a group of fifteen musicians.

The Siegfried Idyll was a private gift that was never intended for publication. Its themes are derived from the opera Siegfried, a String Quartet that Wagner had been writing when he met Cosima in 1864, and a lullaby, “Schlaf, kindlein, schlaf”. Wagner, however, was compelled to sell the manuscript in 1877 due to financial hardship.

This recording is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor.”

Download this work through March 28, 2008 at: http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo

Wear green proudly…

Check out the History Channel’s St. Patrick’s Day page for more information about this special holiday!

Women’s History Month Discussion in VCC

You’re invited to the Rohrbach Library on the Tuesday after break for a literary discussion in the Voices and Choices Gallery

WHEN: Tuesday, March 18th, at 11 a.m.
WHAT: As part of KU’s Women’s History Month programming, retired English and Women’s Studies faculty member Dr. Angela Scanzello will lead a discussion of Isabel Allende’s short stories “Tosca” and “Letters of Betrayed Love.”

Copies of the stories are available in the Rohrbach Library and in the Women’s Center. Please contact Elaine Reed (reed@kutztown.edu) for more information about this discussion.

Alexander Street Press – Free Download of the Week

Alexander Street Press is offering the first Vaughan Williams masterpiece, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra and string quartet as their free classical music download of the week on their Website. Every two weeks, they will offer a complete work from their Classical Music Library. To stay up-to-date with the most current offering, you can link to: http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music/

Classical Music Library Free Download of the Week: Vaughan Williams’Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

The first Vaughan Williams masterpiece, the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra and string quartet shows clearly for the first time the composer’s distinctive voice. Written in 1910 and subsequently revised in 1919, it has become one of Vaughan Williams’ most popular works outside his native England.

Vaughan Williams was working on an edition of the English Hymnal when he came across Tallis’ tune, written in 1567 for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter. He became fascinated with the psalm tune, which seems to have triggered a leap forward in his compositional style, and used it as the basis for the Fantasia commissioned by the Gloucester Festival.

This recording is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor.

Download this work through March 13, 2008 at: http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo

New "INFORMATION COMMONS" Desk at Rohrbach!!

The Dean of Library Services announces the following change in service at Rohrbach Library:

“Guess What! The Library is always listening to your comments and suggestions. Therefore, to serve you better, the library will start a pilot program today for an Information Commons model to enhance the way we provide services to our users. An Information Commons model has many library services available at a ‘one-stop’ location. Instead of going to several desks to obtain an answer for your questions, you will only have to go to one desk in many instances. As you will see from this model, we aim to provide services to fit our patrons’ needs. As always, we will continue to make adjustments to our library services and functions to ensure a high level of library services.” –Barbara Simpson Darden, Dean of Library Services