Visual and Performing Arts Weblog

The famous music store in New York City will be closing soon.  See the following link to today’s New York Times’ article for further information.

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Composer Lukas Foss passed away at age 86 on Sunday, February 1st.  For a full obituary, please click here.

The Mansfield Library has a handful of scores and recordings of works by Lukas Foss.  Please click here for more information.

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Artist, Andrew Wyeth passed away today at his home in Pennsylvania.  A full obituary as well as a summary of his sometimes controversial career can be found here. 

You can browse books and other items in the Mansfield Library about Wyeth by clicking here.

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Our scores have all been moved from the 3rd floor to the fourth floor. They are now in brand new shelving that was acquired over the summer. This new shelving fits the dimensions of most of the scores much better than the previous ones did. In the photo above is Leslie Rieger, one of our cataloging technicians, as well as Robert Coleman, one of our student assistants who assists with shelving. Below is a picture of yours truly along with Heidi Hill-Picchietti who is one of our circulation managers. All of these folks contributed greatly to make this move successful. This is a great new home for our score collection and we have room for further growth.

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Composer, Mauricio Kagel, passed away in Cologne, Germany today. For more information click here.

The Mansfield Library has several items related to Kagel.  Click here for listings.

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Seventeen of Jeff Koons’ sculptures are on exhibition at the Chateau de Versailles in France.  An interesting article about the exhibition, and the controversy it has caused so far, is on the New York Times’ web site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/arts/design/11koon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

The Mansfield Library has the following items about Jeff Koons’ work:

Jeff Koons  (Kunsthaus Bregenz)
Call No.: 709.04 K828j

Jeff Koons: The Banality Work (videorecording)
Call No.: VT 11268

Age of Anxiety (videorecording)
Call No.: VT 08115

Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art (Heyward Gallery)
Call No.: 700.904 D727

Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Call No.: Q 709.73 F716

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Composer, Norman Dello Joio, passed away last Thursday in East Hampton, N.Y.

A full obituary can be read here.

For more information at the Mansfield Library about Dello Joio, click here.

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Comedian George Carlin passed away yesterday in Santa Monica, CA. For more information, please click here.

The Mansfield Library has a couple of items either by or about Carlin. We have his 1997 book, Brain Droppings (Call number 818.54 C282b- level 2) as well as a television mini-series Streets of Laredo in which he starred (Call number DVD 0855). The affiliated libraries of the University of Montana have materials by or about George Carlin as well. For a complete list, please click here.

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Cyd Charisse, best known for her dancing in Hollywood movies and musicals from the 1940s-1950s, passed away on June 17, 2008 in Los Angeles.

For more information, please click here.

The Mansfield Library has several videos of movies in which she performs. For a listing of these movies, please click here.

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Bo Diddley passed away Monday, June 2nd in Archer, Florida at the age of 79.

For more information, please click here.

The Mansfield Library has the DVD The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll disc 1 which features an interview with Bo Diddley. The call number is DVD 02390.

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