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Free Download: "Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad)" by Woody Guthrie

In honor of the Woody Guthrie Centennial, Smithsonian Folkways presents an in-depth commemorative collection of songs, photos and essays on one of America’s most treasured 20th-century icons.

Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is a 150-page large-format book with 3 CDs containing 57 tracks, including Woody’s most important recordings such as the complete version of “This Land Is Your Land,” “Pretty Boy Floyd,” “I Ain’t Got No Home in This World Anymore,” and “Riding in My Car.” The set also contains 21 previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard original songs, including Woody’s first known—and recently discovered—recordings from 1939.

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New music content added

This was a big week for our music products: we've added a lot of content to four different collections!

• 1,837 pages of content have been added to Classical Music Reference Library, representing four titles from Princeton University Press (if this month's issue of Music Media Monthly got you in a Schoenberg mood, you're in luck: one of those titles is Schoenberg and His World).
• 28 videos have been added to Dance in Video, with styles ranging from baroque to hip-hop. Dance in Video now contains 275 hours of video from 314 different titles.
• 18 new videos have been added to Opera in Video, including a number of performances from the Royal Opera House and several documentaries. The collection now contains 174 videos spanning 488 hours. 
• The biggest news of all: Classical Scores Library is now complete! The new content added to the collection (from composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi, Antonio Vivaldi, and Diana Blom) puts it at 400,000 pages of sheet music.

For more information about any of our music and performing arts collections, or to request a free trial or price quote for your library, email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

Free Download: Rodolfo Halffter's La madrugada del panadero Ballet Suite, Op. 12a

Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987) was the eldest of the Halffter composers. He was a Mexican composer of Prussian descent, who wrote works for ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble, and some vocal music. This ballet suite, 'La madrugada del panadero (The Baker's Dawn)', was written in 1940 and premiered in Mexico City in the same year.

This recording is performed by the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra; Fernando Lozano, conductor.

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Dance in Video continues to grow

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.

Celebrate Hawaii

On August 21, 1959 the Unites States officially welcomed its newest member—Hawaii. If your library subscribes to Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries you can celebrate the 51st anniversary with dozens of tracks of Hawaiian music. Below are 3 albums to enhance your luau and get your guests doing the hula.

Original Hawaiian Steel Guitar performed by Tony Ku & Tomomi Sugiura

Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time performed by Tom Hiona

Musics of Hawai'i: Anthology of Hawaiian Music - Special Festival Edition

Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries is available to academic institutions and libraries worldwide. To request free trial access or a price quote for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com. Library patrons should contact the electronic resources department at their local library, as this online collection is available to institutions only. For more information about Smithsonian Folkways, visit their Web site.

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 performing arts videos licensed from the BBC

 Libraries with access to Opera in Video and Dance in Video will be pleased to learn that we've just licensed some exciting titles from the BBC.

Opera in Video will soon be updated with concert arias sung by Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Joan Sutherland, Karita Mattila, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Renee Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, and others. Also licensed are excerpts of performances from the Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

Opera in Video will also soon include full-length operas from the BBC, including The Cunning Little Vixen, Rigoletto, The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, Falstaff, and Der Vampyr, plus Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Gondoliers. 

BBC titles to be added to Dance in Video include performances by the Cuban National Ballet, Royal Ballet, Kirov Ballet, and the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet.

Opera in Video and Dance in Video are available to libraries worldwide, either through annual subscription or one-time purchase. The newly licensed BBC videos will not initially be available in all countries, so please email sales@alexanderstreet.com for more information.

Music Online is going mobile!

What's better than hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, videos, scores, and pages of full-text music reference?  How about accessing it all on the go?

In 2010 Alexander Street's entire music portfolio will be accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. Subscribers will be able to stream music and video, access scores, search and navigate full-text reference content, and even access and edit personal playlists.

Alexander Street's iPhone and iPod Touch application will be completely free. Updating your playlists or listening to an assigned recording will literally be just a touch away. And thanks to newly developed streaming technology, you'll do it all without buffering.

Look for Alexander Street's iPhone app in 2010 on our Web site, on this blog, and through the iTunes store.

Going to AMS? Join us for breakfast

If you're heading to Philadelphia next week for the American Musicological Association Annual Meeting, we'd love for you to join us for breakfast on Saturday, November 14th.

Each year Alexander Street treats AMS members to a delicious, hot breakfast while displaying the newest tools, features, and online collections in our music portfolio. This year, Liz Dutton and Tim Lloyd will demonstrate how to cross-search all of our audio, video, music reference, and score collections using the Music Online platform. They'll also show you how Music Online meets all of your teaching and research needs through practical examples from topics presented at the meeting.

Additionally, all breakfast attendees will be entered in our drawing for a free year of access to Jazz Music Library for their entire institution! Imagine returning to work with that bit of good news.

Seating at the breakfast is limited, so please RSVP now if you'll be in Philadelphia.

We'll also be in booth #411 in the exhibit hall if you can't make the breakfast.

Free Download: 'Mambo' from Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

The dance 'Mambo' appears in the neighborhood dance scene in Act I of Bernstein's West Side Story. Preceding the famous song 'Maria', members of the rival gangs perform this 'challenge dance' during which Tony and Maria meet and fall in love.

Bernstein composed a symphonic suite of orchestral music from the show in 1957; 'Mambo (Meno Presto)' is the 4th movement in the suite.

This recording is performed by the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra; Fernando Lozano, conductor.

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