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Music Advisory Rountable at ALA

If you're heading to ALA in Washington, D.C., why not give our music editors 45 minutes of your time at our Music Advisory Roundtable? Conveniently located in the Washington Convention Center, our roundtable gives you the chance to voice your opinion and provide feedback on our current and future music collections. In exchange for your time we'll give you the opportunity to win a one-year subscription.

Our streaming audio content will triple in size by the end of 2010, we have new features, functionality, and cross-search enhancements to tell you about, and we're lowering prices. Be among the first to hear about all of it by attending this advisory roundtable and giving us your input!

The Music Advisory Roundtable is one of five roundtables we're hosting at ALA. You can learn more and RSVP here.

New music content released

Alexander Street's Music Online continues to grow, with new content recently added to Jazz Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Opera in Video.

Over 1,500 tracks from 120 albums were recently added to Jazz Music Library. The new albums come from labels including Concord Jazz, Contemporary, Jazz Alliance, Jazzology, Neon Tonic, Playboy Jazz, and Riverside. The newly added recordings feature performers such as Bobby Darin, Sonny Rollins, Pete Escovedo, Art Farmer, Doc Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Tito Puente, and more.

New subtitles for 23 performances, including Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Boheme, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Macbeth, were added to Opera in Video.

Contemporary World Music has grown by over 3,800 tracks. Newly added music comes from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, INEDIT, Lyrichord, PAN Records, and Tropical Music. Genres and sub-genres covered in the new content include Afro-pop, cumbia, electronic music, world fusion, klezmer, griot music, joropo, funeral music, and more.

Music Online now contains over 258,000 tracks for US and Canadian customers (over 223,000 tracks for customers outside of the US and Canada).

New Music Media Monthly blog launched

Sponsored by Alexander Street, Music Media Monthly is "your guide to the best recent (and sometimes not-so-recent) sound recordings, music-related books, videos, and Web sites.”  The blog is independently edited by Rick Anderson of the University of Utah's Marriott Library, and is designed to be a resource for music and media librarians, music students and teaching faculty, and music lovers.

Read the inaugural issue now at http://musicmediamonthly.com, and be sure to subscribe to the blog's RSS feed or bookmark the URL in your Web browser. You can also read the press release here.

Free Download: Saint-Saëns' Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32

Saint-Saëns wrote this first of two sonatas for cello and piano in 1872. He completed his second cello sonata in 1905.

This recording is performed by Daria Hovora, cellist, and Aleth Lamasse, pianist.

Download this work now at http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo/

All tracks downloaded through this promotion are owned by Alexander Street Press and are available to legally download, free of cost to the user.

If you enjoy our free downloads, you'll also want to check out the Music Media Monthly blog, sponsored by Alexander Street. Music Media Monthly is your guide to the best music-related books, videos, Web sites, and recordings. Check out the inaugural issue at http://musicmediamonthly.com.

New content added to Classical Scores Library

Classical Scores Library was recently updated with over 6,500 pages from 431 scores. The new scores come from Publishers of Wirripang, an Australian based publishing house.

The publication dates for these scores range from 1980-2009, and include contemporary composers such as Betty Beath, Diana Blom, Anne Carr-Boyd, Colin Brumby, Nigel Butterley, Bruce Crossman, Hugh Dixon, Houston Dunleavy, Amanda Handel, Miriam Hyde, Brennan Keats, Horace Keats, Jocelyn Kotchie, Brett McKern, Paul Pavoir, Peter Rankine, Sylvia Rice, Andrew Schultz, John Spence, Jennifer Trynes, Phillip Wilcher, and Stephen Yates.

Classical Scores Library now contains 330,852 pages. For more information or to request a free trial for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.