News and Tips

You’ve probably been hearing quite a bit about BGSU alumna Jennifer Higdon this year.  She won a Grammy earlier this year in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category for her “Percussion Concerto,” and has now also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her “Violin Concerto.”  Read more at the Pulitzer site and BGSU’s Zoom News page:

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2010-Music
http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/zoomnews/page80489.html

Check out these and some of Higdon’s other works here in the music library:

http://maurice.bgsu.edu/search~S0/?searchtype=a&searcharg=Higdon%2C+Jennifer&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=ahigdon%2C+Jennifer

A recording of Bobby McFerrin’s father, part of BGSU’s Sound Recordings Archives, was included in Weekend Edition Sunday‘s story about McFerrin’s new album Vocabularies.  Listen online at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125725036

Naxos Music Library has an iPhone (and now iPad, too!) application to allow you to listen to Naxos on the go, even on devices without Flash.  The app is linked to student playlists, so follow the instructions below to check it out:

Students (users) have the ability to create a student playlist account and build their own, private playlists. To do this, they need to access the NML as usual, click on the Playlist tab at the top of the page, then click “Sign-up.” The user will be asked to enter his/her name, email address, and to create a password. Once (s)he has created a student playlist account, (s)he will be able to login to the account and build an unlimited number of playlists from any piece within the Naxos Music Library. (Playlists are limited to 60 tracks or 4 hours–whichever comes first–for loading and streaming optimization.) The same login will be used for both the student playlist account AND the iPhone app. While the NML app version 2.0 allows users to search and stream as if logged in on their computer, building and editing playlists must still be done on a computer.

More information, pictures, and FAQ’s can be found on our blog: NaxosMusicLibrary.blogspot.com

Professors may also create a Student Playlist account, build their own, personal playlists, and access those in addition to the institutional playlists on their iPhone.

-Anne Benson, Naxos Music Library

In honor of April Fools Day, take a look at these Seven Musical Hoaxes that Mental Floss came up with.

Curious about No. 2?  Listen to it at the library.