Tuesday, February 10, 2009

2008 Paul Revere Award Winners Exhibit

The Diehn Composers Room of the University Libraries presents an exhibit featuring the 2008 Paul Revere Award Winners from the Music Publishers Association. These awards honor outstanding examples of graphic design, acknowledging music publishers for their efforts to create art for the music industry.

The exhibit combines winning scores in several categories, with historical background on the use of engraving, lithography, typesetting and woodcut blocks for music reproduction.

The exhibit will be available for public viewing in the atrium of the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center through February 17, 2009.

For more information on the Paul Revere Awards, please go to the Music Publishers Association's website.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Campaign Song Exhibit Opening



The Diehn Composers Room of the University Libraries presents “Of Thee I Sing: Politics through Song,” an exhibit that commemorates the 2008 presidential election year by canvassing campaign songs of former presidential candidates. The exhibit showcases a variety of campaign songs: songs that illuminate personality or accomplishments, songs scored by famous composers, songs adapted from Broadway musicals, songs that croon slander, notarize political corruption, chant social reform and much more. The first campaign song, the first great singing campaign, and other campaign song first appearances such as bilingual languages and candidates quotes are showcased along with presidential photographs, political cartoons, campaign scores, and more. All exhibit materials and items are from Diehn Composers Room and Perry Library collections.

The exhibit will be available for public viewing at the Diehn Composers Room, 189 Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, through April 30, 2009. Viewing is available at the Diehn Composers Room from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Funding for this exhibit is provided by a grant from the Norfolk Foundation.

For more information, contact Laura Y. Brown, Music Cataloger, at 757-683-4187

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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