Ravinia Festival

On the topic of summer music festivals, the concert schedule for the Ravinia Festival is available on its Web site as well. Most concerts will take place from June to August.

Woodstock Mozart Festival announces its 2009 season

I just checked the Web site of the Woodstock Mozart Festival, and saw that they have posted their 2009 season performance dates and repertoire. I attended one performance last year and I was quite impressed. If you are going to be around in August and would like to hear some very fine music, you might wish to check this out. Woodstock is approximately one hour from DeKalb by car.

New Hess Catalog of Beethoven's Works

The Music Library recently acquired James F. Green's new translation of Willy Hess's catalogue of Ludwig van Beethoven's works. It is entitled, The New Hess Catalog of Beethoven's Works<, (West Newbury, VT: Vance Brook, 2003) and can be found in the Music Library Reference Collection under call no. MUR M134.B4 G74 2003.

This catalogue differs from the more widely known thematic catalogue of Kinsky and Halm, because Hess's catalogue does not include the published works from the collected editions of Beethoven's works with opus numbers. Instead, Hess focused his efforts on fragments, earlier versions, and other lesser-known examples of Beethoven's works. The Kinsky thematic catalogue can be used with the Hess catalogue to obtain a more complete picture of Beethoven's output.

Thematic Catalogue for Robert Schumann

The Music Library just received McCorkle's thematic catalogue of Robert Schumann's works. This invaluable reference tool was published by G. Henle, and the text is predominantly in German. It also has a helpful English translation of the Foreword and other introductory material.

McCorkle, Margit L. Robert Schumann: Thematisches-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis. München: G. Henle, 2003. Call no.: MUR ML134.S4 A28 2003b

Raya Garbousova poster session materials on display

Please come to the Music Library and check out our display of materials from the poster session Lynne Thomas and Michael Duffy presented at the 2009 Music Library Association Meeting in Chicago. The poster session was entitled: "Raya Garbousova: Dedications to the World-Renowned Cellist."

You can find the materials in the first floor exhibit case and posted to the bulletin board at the top of the stairs on the second floor of the Music Library. The Raya Garbousova Collection is held by the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of the NIU Libraries.