New CDs!

Canadian Brass-Legends
M555.C36 L44 2008

The Name Canadian Brass long ago reached Legendary Status in the musical world, as have the extraordinary performers, past and present, brought together for this recording.











Center City Brass Quintet
M557.4.C46 B73 1996

Anthony Dilorenzo-Trumpet
Ryan Anthony-Trumpet
Richard King-Horn
Mark Lawrence-Trombone
Steven Witser-Trombone
Craig Knox-Tuba








Base4-Percussion Quartet
M485.B37 O64 2004

Andy Bliss, Steve Lundin, John Pobojewski and Pat Schleker formed the Base4 Percussion Quartet to create a chamber group that would perform demanding, high-quality literature in all areas of Percussion. They Strive to captivate audiences through energetic works accompanied by visual interactive multimedia.

Closed July 4th

The Diehn Composers Room will be closed along with the rest of campus on Monday, July 4th. Enjoy the holiday and we'll see you on Tuesday!

Used Book Sale!

Support the ODU Libraries and get a great deal on books!

The Annual Used Book Sale will be held Wednesday 11/3 through Thursday 11/4 from 9am - 7pm. The book sale will be held on the 4th floor, rear of the Perry Library.

New Portable Listening Stations

Summer 2011 has brought many new updates for the Diehn Composer’s Room: fabulous new furniture, more study space, and now, portable listening stations! On a crisp autumn afternoon, what could be better than completing required listening outside under a shady tree? Or take the equipment to a practice room to work with. As with all DCR equipment, the portable listening stations can be checked out for a maximum of three hours at a time. Of course, CDs placed on reserve must remain inside the music library. With so many different options, you’ll have no reason to procrastinate on homework this fall!

New CDs

Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement
M1977. C47 L48 2009

















Boston Brass: Stealing the Show
M558. B67 S84 2000

















Count Basie & His Orchestra: Basie's Bag (of Swing)
M1450. B37 S95 2006















The Velvet Underground: Loaded
M1630.18. V45 L63 1987



















Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos
Richard Goode & the Budapest Festival Orchestra
M1010. B44 C66 2009

It's Finished!

Finally, all the new furniture is in place and all services have been restored. Moving and Hauling destroyed the old study carrels yesterday - we were quite happy to see them go.

It did take until today to get all the equipment set back up, but here it is, ready for you to use.

We'll be closed on Monday, July 5th, but feel free to drop in later to see how it all looks in person.

Improvisation

Things haven't gone quite as planned with the new furniture:


There was a mishap with our scheduling and, as a result, Moving and Hauling couldn't come to remove our old furniture on Wednesday as planned. The new furniture was still suppose to arrive Thursday morning, so we needed to find somewhere to put it all. While we have the ability to shove it all in the DCR, we had to keep in mind that we must be able to get the old stuff out somehow on Monday.

We kept the listening equipment in the Reading Room and moved most of the new tables in between our study carrels. Two extra tables are in the foyer and about 30 chairs are in Jessica Mirasol's, our archivist, workroom.

Needless to say, a few services are still unavailable. Our computer lab and printing capabilities are down. There simply wasn't anywhere to set them up. We suggest using the Web or Art Library labs instead.

Otherwise, we fully up and running. Feel free to come in to study, check items out or just test out the new chairs - they're much more comfortable than the old ones!