Wellesley College Music Library

01/05/2018

David Bowie would have been 71 this year. Stop by and check out our display in his honor, put together by Dani Brooks, '17.

12/05/2017

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida's birthday is on December 20. Come by the Music Library and check out a display of her recordings.

11/03/2017

Stop by and take a look at our display of facsimile scores! This is just a small fraction of what we have in the collection, so please ask us if there is a piece you are interested in.

10/03/2017

Stop by the Music Library and check out our display on jazz great Thelonious Monk, who would have turned 100 this month.

09/08/2017

Welcome Back! Stop by the Music Library for books, scores, and tons of CDs to listen to. And while you're here, check out our display about the college's wonderful Fisk Organ and Organ Club.

06/09/2017

In celebration of Pride Month, the Wellesley Music Library is also celebrating the birthday of great American songwriter Cole Porter.

05/02/2017

Therapy dogs will be visiting the libraries next Monday, May 8! come to the Music Library from 1:30-2:30pm to visit with Dexter!
https://blogs.wellesley.edu/lts/2017/05/01/mon-58-therapy-dogs-need-to-meet-you/

Mon 5/8: Therapy dogs need to meet you May 1, 2017 | Here is the schedule for unbearable cuteness (and Twinkle’s back!): Twinkle Chihuahua/terrier CLAPP 11:00AM-12:00PM Kyrie Golden Retriever CLAPP 12:30-1:30PM Wally Australian Labradoodle CLAPP 2:00-3:00PM Dunkyn Beagle CLAPP 6:00-7:00PM Dexter L...

04/25/2017

Happy 100th birthday Ella Fitzgerald! Stop by the Music Library to check out our display and get more of her recordings!

04/11/2017

New York-based composer Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for her opera Angel's Bone.
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/04/10/523304153/du-yun-wins-music-pulitzer-for-angels-bone

The opera, by the 39-year-old Shanghai native, is a searing parable of human trafficking set to a score that ranges from Renaissance choral music to punk rock.

04/10/2017

Bringing ancient sounds back to life...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/arts/international/bringing-ancient-sounds-back-to-life.html?_r=1

A program is helping experts recreate long-lost instruments. (Audio clips of the carnyx, the hornpipe and the vulture-bone flute.)

03/31/2017

Come check out our newest exhibit, featuring 8 composers who settled in America after fleeing N**i Germany.

03/20/2017

RIP Chuck Berry, one of the legendary founders of rock 'n' roll.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/03/18/berry/ft4c0i4pA24pSl94U7950K/story.html

Chuck Berry, the father of rock ’n’ roll who duckwalked his way into musical history, composing, singing, and playing guitar on such anthems as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven,’” and “Rock and Roll Music,” died Saturday at his St.