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Give our editors 45 minutes of your time at one of our advisory roundtable sessions—we'll give you our heartfelt appreciation, a peek at new and forthcoming Alexander Street collections, and the opportunity to win a one-year subscription! Refreshments will be served.

Our editors host these informational gatherings to get feedback from a small group of trusted librarians. If you are familiar with Alexander Street's collections or our discipline areas, your opinion is particularly valuable to us, and we hope you'll give us the benefit of your input!

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• Health Sciences in Video: Out of the Clinic and into the Classroom
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Johann Sebastian Bach - "Orchestral Suite No. 3," BWV 1068

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a composer and organist. He composed this piece as well as several others while he was the director of the collegium musicum in Leipzig in 1731.

This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, with soloists Norbert Matern, Vassil Ivanov, Jean de Ridder, Leopold Hager, and Elizabeth Parcells.

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Free Download: "Old Man at the Mill" by Clint Howard

Held since 1935, the Old Fiddlers' Convention is a southwestern Virginia tradition and a prime destination for old time and bluegrass musicians and fans. This recording was made at the festival from 1960 through 1963, and the tracks included are representative of the skill and spontaneity heard on the Galax stage.

This track is performed by Clint Howard.

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Coming Soon from Alexander Street Press...

We are getting ready to launch seven new collections this year that reach across several different disciplines! Browse the upcoming collections.

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• LGBT studies
• Health Sciences
• Performing Arts, Theatre & Film

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ALA Anaheim - Reserve your seat for the Customer Appreciation Breakfast

Join Alexander Street Press at this year's ALA conference in Anaheim for the annual Customer Appreciation Breakfast!

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New Content in Classical Music Library!

This content is available worldwide!

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We released 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) in Classical Music Library from a wide variety of labels, including Bel Canto Society, Bridge, Cantolopera, Gimell, Haenssler Classic, Lyrichord, Mark Custom, Mode Records, New Albion, North/South, Wirripang, and more. 

New content includes artists and ensembles such as: The Tallis Scholars, Stables Ensemble, Beniamino Gigli, Auer String Quartet, Virginia Wind Symphony, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, The Wellesley Chamber Singers, Amadeus Guitar Duo, Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig, and more. 

Sample new albums include:

• "On the Wire: Australian Music for Flute Ensemble"
• "Beniamino Gigli: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci"
• "Seven Improvisations: Music for Solo Percussion"
• "Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers"
• "Choral Music of the Great Spanish Masters"
• "Grieg: Orchestral Works/Piano Concerto"
• "Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15"

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," Acts 2 and 3

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck (1714-1787) was a Bohemian composer whose operas helped the genre come into its own. Through the 1760s, Gluck collaborated with a Tuscan poet, Ranieri Calzabigi, who wrote the libretto for "Orfeo et Euridice."

This album contains Acts Two and Three of the opera presented two weeks ago and is performed by Collegium Instrumentale Brugensis.

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Pete Seeger - "Penny's Farm"

Targeted by the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee, blacklisted, and under indictment for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about his political beliefs, Pete Seeger persevered, traveling throughout North America and performing “community concerts” in schools and local venues.

This 1960 concert at Bowdoin College in Maine captures the mood of the time and the enormity of Seeger’s talent as performer, song leader, and social activist. The 2-CD set presents the entire concert, recorded with extraordinary fidelity by the campus radio station. 111 minutes, 24-page booklet, extensive notes.

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Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice"

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck (1714-1787) was a Bohemian composer whose operas helped the genre come into its own. Through the 1760s, Gluck collaborated with a Tuscan poet, Ranieri Calzabigi, who wrote the libretto for "Orfeo et Euridice."

This recording is performed by Collegium Instrumentale Brugensis.

For more information, and to download this track, go to http://alexanderstreet.com/freeclassical

Learn more about the collection that holds this track and thousands more - http://alexanderstreet.com/products/classical-music-library

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