mozart in the laboratory?
God, I love Wikipedia! Found this tidbit in the entry for Bill Nye: The Science Guy (after spotting him on a tv show (NUMB3RS) this evening):
On Friday, February 3, 2006, Nye was married to Blair Tindall.[4] Tindall and Nye had been engaged for five months. The pair exchanged watches instead of rings “as a symbol,” Nye explained, “of man’s reckoning with time”.[5] Tindall is the author of Mozart in the Jungle and she is a former concert oboist. The two exchanged vows at Richard Saul Wurman’s The Entertainment Gathering 2006 conference where Nye spoke. They were married by the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, accompanied by MIT Media Lab professor Michael Hawley on the piano, performed a wedding march. The engagement was announced by Nye, while appearing on the December 19, 2005 episode of talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Bill Nye and Blair Tindall ended their marriage seven weeks after the conference ceremony. An invalid marriage license and “too much too soon” were cited as the reasons for the split. Blair Tindall announced this publicly on the LA radio show, The David Lawrence Show (July 2006).
November 10, 2006 No Comments
digital scholarship
I was randomly surfing around the Web last night and happened upon a couple great resources: first is the Library on Congress’ Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance. It is a page designed primarily for researchers looking for in-depth information that can be found in the major repositories of musical manuscripts and primary sources. From this list I found the Loeb Music Library at Harvard College Library. They happen to have a few gems of manuscripts and first editions - including Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, and a rare first edition printing of Mozart’s Opus X Quartets (the set of six dedicated to Joseph Haydn) - all of which you can view on your computer screen in minute detail.
The Library of Congress also has a pretty extensive digital collection, especially concerning American music.
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Aaron Copland composing in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, September 1942.
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein.
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Sketches for Appalachian Spring ballet.
November 10, 2006 No Comments