News from national branches and IAML partners; articles of interest from the world of music, music archives, and music libraries; and a worldwide musical treasure hunt.
News from National Branches
- ACIM: Rencontres Nationales des Bibliothécaires Musicaux, 16 & 17 mars 2015, Metz
Programme
- IAML UK & Irl: National Music Libraries Day: Celebrating in Somerset
- MLA: Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 (PDF)
From the Music Library Association
The MLA Bibliographic Control Committee is proud to announce the release of version 1.1 of the resource “Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21.”
News from IAML partners
- EBLIDA Newsletter, Issue No. 2, February 2015 now published
Articles of interest
- Adoption de l’amendement pour l’ouverture des bibliothèques le dimanche
archimag - Ice and fire: the classical music scene in Iceland
Guy Dammann, The Guardian
“Iceland’s composers and musicians are busy breaking down the barriers between classical and popular genres. And now they have a spanking new concert hall to experiment in.” - In der Kapelle brennt noch Licht
Andreas Richter, Zeit Online
“Vor 500 Jahren begann die Entwicklung der Orchester in Deutschland. Jetzt wurden sie als immaterielles Unesco-Weltkulturerbe geadelt. Zu Recht! Ein historischer Überblick.” - New York Philharmonic’s Archive Expands
Michael Cooper, New York Times
The Leon Levy Archive is an invaluable resource documenting the history of music in New York, and recently added a treasure trove of concert programs to their digital offerings (image, right). - Scheide donates rare books library to Princeton; collection is largest gift in University’s history
News at Princeton
“Musician, musicologist, bibliophile and philanthropist William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who died in November at age 100, has left his extraordinary collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts to Princeton University.”
Friday Fun
A worldwide musical treasure hunt
A competition has been set up by the Italian music monthly Musica to find works by the almost unknown Italian-Argentinian composer Rodolfo Zanni (1901-1927). After his mysterious death, his works completely disappeared. Can you find any? A prize of EUR 5,000 will be awarded.
Read more about Zanni’s life (in Italian) and about the competition in English, Spanish and Italian.