Join UC Libraries at two upcoming concerts to be held in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library Reading Room.

Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 pm:  UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Philharmonia Orchestra will perform Haydn’s Symphonies 6, 7, and 8  (“Morning, Noon and Night”) conducted by CCM graduate student Aik Khai Pung.

Sunday, April 14 at 2 pm:  The inaugural concert on the CCM Library’s 1888 Steinway Parlor Grand piano will feature music arranged by Clara Schumann, edited by CCM faculty member Jonathan Kregor, associate professor of composition, musicology, and theory. The music will be performed by students of CCM’s Michael Chertock, associate professor of keyboard studies, and Awadagin Pratt, associate professor of keyboard studies. Dr. Kregor will give remarks about the music.

Free and open to the public, the concerts are part of the “Music in the Gorno Library” series. The Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library is located on the 6^th floor of Blegen Library. Seating is limited, so come early.

The Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence are announced each June by the Music Publishers Association. Established in 1964 in honor of the 200^th anniversary of the first music engraving in America by the famous silversmith, Paul Revere, these awards were initially given as a means of alerting the music industry to the advantages of providing the best possible publication from the viewpoint of engraving, graphic arts, and production standards. At that time, the music typewriter was in its infancy and not a thought had been given to computerization.

Each year 25-30 publishers submit entries, and awards are given to about 30 of the 125-130 publications received. The judging panel usually includes a well-known music editor or musical personage, a graphic designer and a music librarian. Award certificates are given not only to the publisher but, where applicable, to the engraver, cover designer, book designer, production coordinator and printer. As is fitting with the choice of the namesake Paul Revere, the cartouche used on the award certificates is one which was designed by Revere himself.

The Music Publishers Association was founded in 1895 and is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all musicians and lovers of music. The non-profit association addresses itself to issues pertaining to every area of music publishing with an emphasis on the issues relevant to the publishers of print music for concert and educational purposes.

More information about the 2012 Paul Revere Awards is available online.

In this issue, you can read Victoria A. Montavon’s Farewell Message as she steps down from being the Dean and University Librarian for the past 11 years. She reflects on some of the many changes that have occured in the Libraries during her tenure and the enjoyment she has found working with a library faculty and staff who share her commitment to providing the best possible libraries for the UC community.

This volume also features the STRC renovation currently underway that will provide an open, comfortable, and high-tech environment in the center of Langsam Library’s fourth floor for students to work on an array of technology projects.

In an article that highlights the value of library collections, a blog post from former Archives and Rare Books Library student assistant Lauren Fink, a junior percussion performance major, discusses how her work in that library provided her with an exciting opportunity to pursue her academic passion.

In addition to these stories, you’ll read the latest in Staff News and what’s going on in the DAAP Library, and much more.

Free and open to the public, the concert is in celebration of the impending publication of The Eighteenth Century Symphony, the first volume of The Symphonic Repertoire, a five-volume series being published by Indiana University Press. It includes over 100 composers and covers musical style, performance practice, aesthetics, and institutions. The book is edited by CCM musicology professor Mary Sue Morrow and is scheduled to be issued in May 2012. (See http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=653638 )

 The April 4 concert will recreate the opening half of a typical late Viennese 18^th-century concert and will feature performances of a little-known Boccherini symphony, a symphony by the Viennese court composer Wenzel Birck, and two numbers from Florian Gassmann’s “L’opera seria,” an opera buffa spoof of Italian serious opera. 

The orchestra will be drawn from members of the CCM Philharmonia Orchestra, led by professor Mark Gibson. The vocal soloists are Fotina Naumenko and Allan Palacios Chan, both CCM graduate students. Mary Sue Morrow will give brief remarks on the music. 

The concert is part of the “Music in the Gorno Music Library” series.

UC Faculty Members to Consider the Theme of Identity.

The spring Life of the Mind lecture series will kick off Tuesday, April 10 from 3:30-5pm in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center. Life of the Mind features interdisciplinary conversations with UC faculty around a one-word theme followed by audience Q&A. Each quarter, there are two Life of the Mind sessions with three “thought provocateurs” contributing to each session. The spring Life of the Mind theme is Identity.

At the April 10 event, three distinguished faculty members will address the theme from unique and diverse perspectives:

• Stefan Fiol, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, College-Conservatory of Music, “The Performance of Identity”
• Laura Dudley Jenkins, Associate Professor of Political Science, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, “Identity Improvisation”
• Gregory H. Williams, President, University of Cincinnati, “Identity – Two Centuries of Uncertainty”

The second session in the series on “Identity” will be held Tuesday, May 8 from 3:30-5pm and will feature:

• Elaine Hollensbe, Associate Professor of Management, Carl H. Lindner College of Business
• Amy C. Lind, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
• Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Associate Professor of Sociology, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences

 “Life of the Mind” is free and open to the public and attracts a broad audience including UC students, faculty, staff, and alumni, as well as people from the community. Past themes have included “Technology” and “War.” More information about “Life of the Mind” is available online at www.libraries.uc.edu/lifeofthemind/.

Can’t make it to the Alumni Association to participate in person? “Life of the Mind” will be streamed live at www.libraries.uc.edu/lifeofthemind/.

“Life of the Mind” is co-sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Chair of the University Faculty, and the UC Libraries.

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Continue the discussion of “Life of the Mind” at lunch at the Faculty Club on Wednesday, April 11 at 12:00pm. The club will offer free dessert and coffee to those who eat lunch at the “Life of the Mind Table.” This event is open to all. Reservations required, call (513) 556-4154.