Kevin Ernste talk today!

Check out Kevin Ernste today in Wilson Hall rm. 219 at 2!

This talk is part of the ongoing Music Innovators' Series.

He will be talking about recent works and techniques.

Here's a neat interview from Popcorn Youth, the Ithaca Times Arts Blog.

Melinda O’Neal’s Picks

Check out the new display in the lounge designed by Melinda O'Neal!

Melinda O’Neal’s Picks:

Choral Journal 1991
article on Mozart’s Requiem editions and performance practices

When preparing for performance of Mozart's Requiem with Handel Society of Dartmouth College, I discovered there was no one source that clarified the plusses and minuses of the myriad of available performance editions. And while there were new recordings with period instruments, the "newness" of old instruments had not been explored, at least for choral conductors through ACDA (American Choral Directors Association). So, I wrote this article while on sabbatical in 1990-91. ACDA is in the process of uploading pdfs of past articles of the Choral Journal onto their website.

Wisdom, Wit and Will, edited Joan Catoni Conlon

When Joan Conlon, professor of choral studies at University of Colorado, asked me to write a chapter for a book written by college/university women choral conductors, I steered away from the normal impulse to write on score preparation and conducting pedagogy. Instead, I interviewed Marin Alsop, recently appointed conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, on the chorusmaster and orchestra conductor relationship, issues of confidence in and trust of women conductors by orchestra players, and her unique vision for the role of the 21st century orchestra in society.

Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ – a conductor’s anaylsis for performance
doctoral document by O’Neal
ML 410 .B5 O64 1987

When French conductor Marcel Couraud was a visiting professor at Indiana University during my graduate studies, I was assigned to lead section rehearsals for the chorus preparing the Epilogue of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ. This fantastic experience led to my doctoral paper entitled Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ: a conductor's analysis for performance, including many barline charts in the tradition of Julius Herford and my continuing study of Berlioz's music.

New Berlioz Edition vol. 14 of Berlioz’s choruses
Ref. M3 .B52

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) published individual songs and choruses throughout his life. The New Berlioz Edition edited by Hugh Macdonald, is the only location one may find many of his quite interesting and engaging choral works...unless, however, one finds a printed edition of his 33 Mélodies of 1864, which I have been fortunate to do. This summer Larry Kenny '11, through his expertise with Sibelius, is helping me load several individual songs unto Choral Public Domain Library (www.cpdl.org) so more folks may have access to some of these wonderful, little-known works. We're comparing the collected works with Berlioz's approved publication and have already found some variances.

CD recording conducted by Roger Norrington of Berlioz’ Symphony fantastique with period instruments
M 1001 .B53 op 14 1989

My interest in the use of period instruments for performance of music, from Bach and Handel to Berlioz and Brahms in particular, was sparked by Roger Norrington's remarkable 1989 recording of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Norrington's earliest recordings are of vocal music by Heinrich Schütz; this grounding in early baroque music, language and phrasing led him down a different road with regard to interpretation of romantic symphonic music by Berlioz.

Choral Conducting Symposium by Harold A. Decker and Julius Herford
MT 85 .D313 C56

The grounding of my approach to score preparation and conducting comes from the instruction and mentorship of Julius Herford, with whom I studied at Indiana University. Unfortunately, very little is written by him; much is written by others.

John Elliot Gardiner’s CD recording of the Brahms Requiem
M 2012 .B8 D48

I studied Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Julius Herford and sang it several times with Robert Shaw (for whom I was a teaching assistant). I was swept away by the work and my experience of it. But Gardiner's recording on period instruments and with a professional chorus of @40 was a revelation. He brought new understanding of the work via the primacy of text nuancing, phrasing and the rebalancing and thus new transparencies of the orchestra via use of period instruments.

Judy Collins
M 1630.18 .C65 W56

I began my musical life as a folk singer (yes, guitar in hand–first Gibson and then Martin 12-string). Any number of female artists were my models at the time, but Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) stand out, and then later Cat Stevens. When I have to pack or organize my office, I now put on the iPhone/iPod earphones and go to it.

19^th-c. Music Journal:
Donna DiGrazia’s article on positioning of forces for Berlioz’s works
ML 196 .N474

I met Donna DiGrazia in Paris where we were both working on Berlioz at the Bibliothèque nationale. Her article in 19th-c. Music on the stage disposition of performing forces in Berlioz's works is wonderful.

Have a look, too, at The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815 by Spitzer and Zaslaw. Well into the romantic era, choruses were positioned in front of the orchestra. This makes all the difference with regard to clarity of text and presence (immediacy) of the voices and the number of forces needed... to name just a few aspects! Handel Society of Dartmouth explored this set up with their 2003 performance of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette in Spaulding Auditorium.

Composer Q& A with Steve Reich!

Today at 2 in Wilson Hall, room 219!

What a treat!

See earlier blog post about Steve Reich here.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Librarians Are Crazy

NPR's got a great story about the Librarian Book Cart Drill Championships. Librarians dressed up like vikings popping wheelies with book carts. From the article: "There's a stereotype that librarians are boring. And I think they want to change that stereotype to 'librarians are crazy.'" I totally agree. Spend some time with one of us. We will blow your mind.

Then check out the song Librarian by My Morning Jacket on youtube or come on down to Paddock to check out the wonderful Tori Amos Collection Tales of a Librarian.

And then of course there's Marian the Librarian. She's the best.

What do you think about librarians? Written any songs about them lately? Let us know, in the comments section!

Do The Robot

Do you have tickets for tomorrow night's Die Roten Punkte show at the Hop? I think you can still get some today!

Check out Die Roten Punkte on myspace

and tell us what you think!

From the Hopkins center website:

Playing a child-sized drum set and guitar, Berlin rockers Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) belt out '80s techno Euro pop, '90s-era robot music and glam-punk. A hit at fringe festivals worldwide, brother-sister duo Otto and Astrid Rot perform an intensely funny stage show infused with original songs and comedic banter about their suspiciously close relationship. With dreams of becoming “the best band in the world,” and orphaned by some “tragic” twist of fate, Otto and Astrid keep audiences laughing and cheering with antics that underscore the absurdity of pop stardom and fame.

Need more input before you decide? Check out:

this review from blogcritics.org

and this recent one from the Edinburgh Festival Guide.

Here's an excerpt from an interview from DBmagazine:

"Astrid loves it. She's out there doing the robot. We just saw some old people walk past shaking their heads, not understanding - they probably don't see a lot of characters like us around here."

Vibe Magazine is gone, but the Journal of Mathematics and Music has arrived!

Vibe Magazine has closed it doors,
R.I.P. Vibe
but the online version is wonderful and here.

In the meantime, while we cannot fill the hole in your heart that Vibe magazine left, we must fill the spot in the lounge where Vibe was displayed. So let us welcome

The Journal of Mathematics and Music

to the lounge.
In it you will find mathematical and computational approaches to music theory, analysis, composition and performance.

Spencer Topel Talk Today!

Spencer Topel will present a talk today entitled: "Where's the Groove? Probe-Tone Analogies in Rhythm Perception" as part of the Music Innovators Series at 2 pm in Wilson Hall, room 219.

Hosted by the Digital Musics Program and sponsored by the Music Department, this talk is open to the public free of charge.

See you there!

Diana Jih's Summer Vacation

Wherever you travel this summer, here's hoping you always pack the best soundtrack to go with it. I have some recent suggestions:

While driving through Mt. Shasta's mountatin pass-Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

so that the scenery's beauty comes close to matching the beauty of this shoegaze musicscape.

While poking dead sharks, horseshoe crabs (who incidentally enough only make love by the light of the full moon so perhaps "Moondance" by Van Morrison would be appropriate for said occassion), and jiggling sea foam, in Cape Cod-a combination of time-honored Sea Shanties and new songs from recently washed ashore Foam Castles. Sea Shanties will power you through the day as you poke and play triumphantly in the sand while Foam Castles will guide you back with your day's worth of beach and sun treasures. The playful beats of songs like "Yarn" mix with guitar and piano pairings only two people well-practiced at sunset walks along the beaches of Portland and now Los Angeles to guide you home after a day at the beach.

Washington DC-"Washington DC" -The Magnetic Fields

Now post your suggestions for summer playlists or for travel music to match a place!

Carol Krumhansl talk today!

Carol Krumhansl of Cornell University will be giving a free talk today at 2pm in room 219 of Wilson Hall entitled: Music and Cognition: Links at Deep and Surface Levels.

This talk is part of the Music Innovators' Series hosted by the Digital Musics Program and sponsored by the Dartmouth Department of Music.

Carol Krumhansl's book Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch is available right here at Paddock Music Library!

You may also want to check out the Oxford University Press website for more information about it.

Go to the talk this afternoon and then let us know what you think in the comments section!

Opera North and Jazz Camp

Don't miss the Opera North summer season at the Lebanon Opera House. If you're interested in Carmen or The Barber of Seville but want to know more before you decide which opera to attend, come on down to Paddock! The best way to get an overview of the scope of the materials available at Paddock is to go to the library catalog and then do a keyword search for Carmen and then limit the search to Location: "Paddock" and you get this: 165 DVDs, Scores, CD's, LP's and books about Carmen.

It's too late to sign up for this year's session, but one of the most interesting ways to get involved with music in the Upper Valley seems to be Senior Lecturer Fred Hass' Jazz Camp in Woodstock, Vermont. It is described on the website as "a week-long holistic jazz workshop that integrates meditation, yoga and natural foods to enhance creativity and support a relaxed approach to practicing and performing." Sounds awesome! Have you been to jazz camp? Feel free to leave a comment about it!

Diana Jih's Summer Playlist

Perhaps the most fun fun fun I've had all summer long has been on my bike listening to the rockin' tunes of my "Oh Hai1 I Haz Been Catchin Summr Rayz" playlist. As I pedal through the sweet summer nights, I beat the heat as the wind acts as a portable air conditioner. This small speaker cradled by an upturned fedora in my front bike basket blares my itunes mix inspired by this classic LOLcat just loudly enough for me plus a bicycle gang of up to three on a quiet road to dance dance dance while in transit. Though loathsome to promote consumption of anything but ice cream this summer, I would highly recommend investing in some portable music players.

Also, here is a select listing of my summer playlist:

Any/all Beach Boys, Shangri-Las, Martha and the Vandellas, The Jackson 5, and Os Mutantes

"Tropical-Iceland" -Fiery Furnaces

"Summertime Clothes" -Animal Collective

Any song from the new Phoenix album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"

"Sandcastle Disco"- Solange

"Young Americans" -David Bowie

"Daylight"-Matt & Kim

"The Summer" and "Rasberry Beret" (cover) -Yo La Tengo

"Summertime" and "Begin the Beguine" -Artie Shaw

"Sweet Summer Night" -Emily Jane Powers

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Here he is looking fancy with the Reagans...

Come to Paddock to pick up some CD's to soothe your sad soul now that Michael Jackson is dead.

Need more? The best way to search the whole Dartmouth library collection for all things MJ is to go to the search page and do a Keyword search for Michael Jackson, that way you can see books and scores and CD's and videos and DVD's as well.

Or you could go to his childhood home in Gary, Indiana and watch this guy dance it out.

If you dont' want to leave campus but wish to be mourning him in a community, you could always go to www.michaeljackson.com and join the hundreds of thousands of people who wish to share their sorrow on-line.

He would want us to keep dancing.

The Local Music Scene

What to see some great performances this summer and not have to drive down to Boston or New York? Aside from the great ongoing programming at the Hop, you should consider checking out one of these local venues:
The New London Barn Playhouse in New London, New Hampshire
or
The Lebanon Opera House in Lebanon, New Hampshire
or
The Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, Vermont.


Perhaps you're into local listening but you like to do it with a drink in your hand? You might want to check out:
The Canoe Club right here in Hanover
or
Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon, New Hampshire
or
Elixir in White River Junction, Vermont.

Feel free to post more venue links and information in the comments section! And tomorrow we've got the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars at 5 on the Green!

See you there!

Summer Hours

We are now on our interim schedule, which means we're open from 8-4:30 every day of the week and closed on weekends, with one exception: we'll be open on Saturday June 20th from 1-5, and reunion visitors are encouraged to stop by!

Summer Hours are as follows:

We will open at 8AM and close at 6PM, this will begin when classes begin, on the 25th of June.
We will be closed on Saturday.
We will be open on Sundays from 1-6PM.

And FYI-- the Courtyard Cafe at the HOP is closed for the summer.

Seniors, we will miss you dearly!
Sophomores, go buy some sun screen and get ready for the best summer ever!

Diana Jih's Review

Review of ERIC LINDLEY '05 Concert
@ Panarchy with THE MAKING OF SAN BERNADINO (Ryan Dieringer 09 + Tica Douglas 10)

Click here to listen to ERIC LINDLEY on MYSPACE

If you recall he rocked one of the most chill friday night rock shows to date a couple years back, and the latest concert was no exception. The tender love songs of The Making of San Bernadino started the night off and by the end of it you couldn't figure out who you had a bigger cursh on, Ryan, Tica, or Eric. Eric's set drifted over the people in the world I love the most as the haunt of his voice lilted over their bare legs and kicked-off summer. shoes. Songs about shoes and other found objects found old and new listeners and activated their latent desires and dorment memories. Old and new friends were made as former residents mingled with current ones who have all left old set lists on the roof and lost shoes and hearts at our doors.

--Diana Jih, '09 Senior Arts Correspondent

R.I.P. Edward Connery Lathem

The legendary Edward Connery Lathem.

Read about him here:

Getting the small things right

College Dean of Libraries dies at 82

Burn Baby Burn

For those of you who don't know, we are in the midst of Green Key weekend, Dartmouth's big spring party weekend. Among other parties and events, tonight the Tabard is hosting it's famous Disco Inferno so you might want to check out some disco music at Paddock today. We've got the movie soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and Donna Summer's iconic Bad Girls, among other hot disco albums.

Now you probably don't know how to disco dance, so let these Finnish people show you how it's done. You don't need to speak Finnish to follow their easy dancing lessons.

Now it's time for your outfit. Go over to Jones Media Center and check out 54 the story of NYC's hottest disco club to get some inspiration.

And you're ready to go! Have a great Green Key, drink plenty of water (at least one cup of water for every alcoholic beverage you consume) and remember to wash your hands, unless you want to get the swine flu.

Paddock Student Employees Rock!

Here we have Paddock Student Employee Ryan Dieringer, '09 rocking out on Collis Porch as part of the PRIDE 2009 CookOUT! Photo by Diana Jih, '09, Senior Arts Correspondent.

Dylan's Picks

I've always loved musicians who don't take themselves too seriously. "Life is too short to be lived without fun," my mom always says. They Might Be Giants, The Beatles and Ben Folds satisfy this requirement perfectly, but all have the obvious ability to write incredibly deep and beautiful songs (some more than others.) Led Zeppelin might have taken themselves much more seriously, but they wrote songs about the Lord of the Rings, so I'm giving them a pass and a huge thumbs up. Take this album off the shelf right now, grab some headphones and blast "A Whole Lotta Love" on one of the turntables. This puts to shame any "rock" that you'll find in the contemporary CD section of the library.

As far as the Sound of Music, well, I just happen to know more lyrics than I care to admit. I am 22, going on 23, and in need of a joooOOooob.


--Dylan J. Nelson, '09

Dylan is a student employee at Paddock, check out his picks on display in the lounge this month!

New Displays!

The new displays are up in Paddock! Dylan Nelson's picks are in the lounge, Don Glasgo's are in the back room and Scott Paulin's picks are on display by the front desk. Here's some info about this month's contributors:

Since Fall 2007, Scott Paulin has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Music, where his courses have addressed material ranging from the Baroque to the post-punk era. Between finishing his PhD in musicology at Princeton and arriving at Dartmouth, he also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and at UCLA. His research, which focuses on film-related topics, has been published in the anthology Music and Cinema and other articles are forthcoming soon in the journal Music and the Moving Image and the book Wagner and Cinema. The Professor Spotlight interview with Scott Paulin in the Spring 2009 edition of Squeezebox is displayed with his picks.

Don Glasgo, the Director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music theory and composition from Ohio University and the University of Illinois. Mr. Glasgo has taught courses in jazz and literature, jazz history, jazz composition, jazz ensembles, American music, theory and composition and world music at Dartmouth, Hamilton College, Lyndon State College, Goddard College, Vermont College and The Putney School. As a faculty member at Goddard College, he directed the Institute for Creative Music and the groundbreaking "Salsa Meets Jazz": The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Seminar with the Eddie Palmieri Octet. He has written over 100 jazz compositions and arrangements, many of them premiered by the Barbary Coast. As an accomplished valve trombonist, Glasgo has performed with Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt Big Band, the Oliver Lake Big Band, the Sun Ra Arkestra and Phish. He leads Gusano, his own eclectic professional band, is the founder and director of the popular non-profit educational program JAZZology, is the author of Jazzlines and was a featured columnist for Jazz Improv magazine. This is his 34th year as Director of the Barbary Coast.

Appleton Archive!

Check out this article from The Dartmouth:

Dartmouth Library establishes new digital sound archive

featuring quotes from Paddock's own Pat Fisken and David Bowden regarding the Appleton Sound Archive.

You can listen to Appleton's Archive on the

Dartmouth website by clicking here

or at

DRAM by clicking here

and let us know what you think!

Got Pride?

Go to the Collis porch right now to see Tica Douglas and Ryan Dieringer playing music for today's Pride CookOUT! Click here to see the full list of PRIDE 2009 events.

Steve Reich

American composer Steve Reich won a Pulitzer yesterday! Only nine years ago, Vermonter Steve Reich was a Montgomery Fellow here at Dartmouth.

We've got plenty of his works including the score for Music for 18 Musicians. We've got a bunch of his audio recordings, including an LP of The desert music (feat. text by William Carlos Williams) and a CD of You are (variations); Cello Counterpoint. Beyond that we've got books about him and collections of his essays on music.

If you're excited about Steve Reich but don't want to leave your room today (and who can blame you, with this damp chill in the air) check out the National Public Radio website where you can listen to an excerpt from Reich's Double Sextet. Then check out Brooklyn Vegan where they pulled some great clips from Youtube of the Double Sextet rehearsals.

Cover Story

That's right, Paddock rocks. But you knew that already.

Did you know you could create your own Billboard cover here? Perhaps you can use this to make a birthday card for a musician you know, or you're bored and want to make one featuring your favorite librarian? Feel free to make some covers and post them to the comments section! Also feel free to come into the Paddock lounge and check out our extensive collection of Billboard magazine.

Susan Boyle

Recently Dartmouth's had some really great events, music (catch the Philip Glass concert last night?) and sunshine. So you may not have heard of Susan Boyle, the 47 year old singer from who blew everyone away on a British idol-style show last week. Watch the video on youtube or on her fan site here.

Bloggers have been writing about her madly since the performance. What is it about Susan Boyle that's so exciting? Have you been following her rising star? What do you think?