Monthly Archives: July 2011

Use of Naxos versus CD borrowing at the Pendlebury

Posted on 28 July 2011 by

The project that I took during my stay in Cambridge was intended to compare the use of the sound collection of the Pendlebury and the Naxos Music Library, a collection of over 630,000 tracks of music online. The result of … Continue reading →

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Cracking the code….or a brief guide to open-shelf music classmarks

Posted on 22 July 2011 by

Classmarks, or as they’re more usually called outside the UL pressmarks or shelf marks, can be a real puzzle. What do they mean? And how do they relate to what you’re trying to find? Most music classmarks (excluding journals) in the University … Continue reading →

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Rain (almost) stopped play: Cambridge and the 1951 Festival of Britain

Posted on 13 July 2011 by

In a previous post, I wrote a little about the Festival of Britain and the Festival Hall. This follow-on post looks at the musical celebrations for the Festival in Cambridge which took place in late July and early August of … Continue reading →

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Buon Compleanno! Menotti would have been 100 today

Posted on 7 July 2011 by

Normally, we don’t have frivolous, or food, photos on our blog, but today is special. Today, 7th July 2011, Gian Carlo Menotti would have turned 100 (he died on 1st February 2007). Regular readers of this blog will know that … Continue reading →

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