Dale Warland Singers Concert Program Archive

Dale Warland

Dale Warland

The Dale Warland Singers Concert Program Archive is available on the Digital Resource Commons.

Eminent conductor and composer Dale Warland has made an indelible impression on the landscape of contemporary choral music. In 1972,  the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis asked him to assemble a group of singers to present a concert of new music, and thus the Dale Warland Singers, a professional mixed chorus, was born. The Dale Warland Singers commissioned 270 choral works, presented over 400 concerts and produced 27 highly acclaimed recordings.  Notable composers who worked with the Dale Warland Singers include Grammy winners Dominick Argento, Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Aaron Jay Kernis, George Shearing, Dave Brubeck, Peter Schickele, and Eric Whitacre, among many others. The group received numerous awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Following the conductor’s decision to retire, the Dale Warland Singers performed their final concert on May 30, 2004.

The archival and other materials of the Dale Warland Singers were given to the University of Cincinnati Libraries and the College-Conservatory of Music in 2004. For additional information about the complete archive, visit the Dale Warland Singers Archive page.

Notes from the Oesper Collections

Snap-shot of Thomas Evans (standing on right) found tucked in the pages of the 1906 edition of Alexander Smith’s <em>Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry</em>.

Snap-shot of Thomas Evans (standing on right) found tucked in the pages of the 1906 edition of Alexander Smith’s Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry.

Notes from the Oesper Collections are occasional publications highlighting items and topics of interest in the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry.   The first three issues cover topics including:

  • the discovery of previously unknown photographs of notable American chemists,
  • Ralph Edward Oesper’s 1947 introduction of an oxidimetric standard now known as “Oesper’s Salt,”
  • and the recent acquisition of a rare 30-cell Craig Countercurrent Distribution Train, driven across country for donation to the Oesper Collections by a former student of Dr. Lyman C. Craig.

Full Run of The Cincinnatian, the UC Yearbook, Now Available Online

From The Cincinnatian. 1970, Book 1, page 30-31.

The University of Cincinnati Libraries have completed the work funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Minigrant from the State Library of Ohio to digitize copies of The Cincinnatian, UC’s yearbook, for the period of 1951-2006.

A previous LSTA grant provided for the digitization of The Cincinnatian from 1894-1950.

All issues of the yearbook are now viewable on the Web at http://digitalprojects.libraries.uc.edu/cincinnatian/.

Read more about The Cincinnatian and the project online.

New Digital Collections Site: The Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry

oesper-news[1]This new site highlights The Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry, a joint venture of the Ralph E. Oesper Chemistry-Biology Library and the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cincinnati. The collections consist of three components: the Apparatus Museum, the rare Books and Journals collection, and the historical Portraits and Prints collection. Virtual Tours are available for the Museum and the circa 1900 Laboratory. From the Museum virtual tour, or from the Museum Displays, users may click on a case, then a shelf and then an individual apparatus for 3-D and high resolution images of each apparatus.

This site has been funded in part by the generous donation of Mary Ellen Ramey Betz, UC Alumna, and the Ralph E. Oesper Endowment.

Luna interface updated

Now Available — Updated Luna Interface for High Resolution Image Collections

High resolution image collections offered through the LUNA Imaging platform are now available in an updated user interface (version 6). No software download is required to access all features. You can access images from the UC Libraries digital collections and from collections added by other institutions to the Luna Commons — in total a growing collection of over 100,000 images. Click here to begin using this valuable collection of high resolution images.
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