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We've made an important change to the Music Online interface based on the feedback from our customers.
We've moved the drop-down list, which allows users to go directly to the individual music collections that make up Music Online, from the bottom of every page to the top. It is now located on the upper left hand side of the page underneath the About | System Requirements links.
We hope this change makes it easier for users to understand that they can search each of the music collections individually, in their native interface, as well as on the cross-search Music Online platform at music.alexanderstreet.com.
Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is "Frankie and Johnny" from the album Rappahannock Blues, performed by John Jackson. Raised in a large, musical farm family in Rappahannock County, Virginia, Jackson (1924-2002) was the most important black Appalachian musician to come to broad public attention during the mid-1960s. For more information, and to download this track, click here.
This track is owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and is available, free of charge, for a limited time only. Be sure to join our mailing list for regular email updates every time a new track becomes available.
Contemporary World Music has just been updated with 99 new albums from Virgin India, Angel Records, Air Mail Music, Playasound, Piranha, Tropical Music, and PAN Records.
The new music includes Indian Classical music, African drumming, cumbia, African gospel, chant, and ritual music, and performers include Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Swar Shikhar, and many more.
All newly added albums are available at streaming bitrates of 192 kbps and 320 kbps! These albums are available to Contemporary World Music subscribers in all regions and territories except Japan.
For more information, and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.
Jazz Music Library, already the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz recordings online, now includes music from EMI and several EMI sub-labels. We've just added 850 albums (8,000 tracks!) from Blue Note, Angel Records, Capitol Records, Vanguard Records, and EMI. All of these recordings are available at streaming rates of 192 kbps AND 320 kbps!
These newly added labels feature music from jazz legends including Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Cassandra Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Prima, Nigel Kennedy, Bernadette Peters, and others. Examples of recordings are:
This material is available to all Jazz Music Library subscribers in all regions except Japan. For more information, and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.
We've just added 18 new videos to Dance in Video, increasing the total to 278 videos. The newly added content includes material from the Alive & Kicking series; performances by the Paris Opera Ballet, Berlin State Ballet, The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Nederlans Dans Theater, and Dutch National Ballet; documentaries on Alwin Nikolais and George Balanchine; and tap instructional videos.
Dance in Video is available to libraries and academic institutions worldwide. For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) was an English composer and teacher. He composed many vocal and choral works, but also wrote four symphonies during his lifetime. This is the 3rd symphony (known as the 'English' symphony), written between 1887-1889 and premiered in 1889 in London.
This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Hager, conductor.
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.
By now you've come to expect a free classical music download from us every two weeks. If you're wondering how to spend the time in between classical downloads, we've got the answer for you—download more music!
Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings are now offering freely downloadable world music. Every two weeks, we'll make a new track available at http://alexanderstreet.com/GLMUdownload.htm. These tracks are available to everyone, regardless of whether or not your institution subscribes to Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries.
We're starting off this new series of world music downloads with the track "Paraguarí" from the album Mateí América: Harps of Paraguay, performed by harp master Marcelo Rojas. Download this wonderful song and celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15.) Be sure to join our mailing list to receive email alerts every time we post a new track.
New world music and classical music downloads will continue to be available on an alternating bi-weekly basis. That means a new piece of music every week! Next week, look for a new work from Classical Music Library, and the following week we'll have a new track from Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries.
As you head to the beaches and plan your cookouts for Labor Day, why not bring some free music along with you? Alexander Street is celebrating by offering a free playlist streamed directly to your mobile device.
iPhone and Android can scan the code below with a QR reader, or simply go to http://goasp.it/labor anytime betwen now an September 15th.
And don't forget, if your library subscribes to any streaming music collection from Alexander Street Press, you can stream any track, album, or playlist. Just look for this send-to-mobile icon.
