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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!

More information about the conference can be found at http://www.alaannual.org

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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Free Download: "Jarocho II" by Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos from the album "¡Llegaron Los Camperos!"

"Jarocho II" by Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos from the album "¡Llegaron Los Camperos!"

Nati Cano’s Mariachi Los Camperos brings you their solid-gold Mexican sound acclaimed by audiences in New York’s Lincoln Center, Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and other major venues throughout the United States Southwest and Mexico. Llegaron Los Camperos (Los Camperos Have Arrived) showcases the group’s concert stage repertoire, skillfully arranged versions of classic mariachi melodies and styles of traditional music from many regions of Mexico.

Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano nos trae su sonido mexicano de oro puro, aclamado en conciertos en el Lincoln Center de Nueva York, el Kennedy Center de Washington, DC, el Smithsonian Folklife Festival, y en presentaciones de primera categoría a través del suroeste de los Estados Unidos y México. Llegaron Los Camperos despliega el repertorio de concierto del grupo, además de versiones de melodías clásicas artísticamente arregladas y estilos de música tradicional de muchas de las regiones de México. 

For more information, and to download this track, click here at http://alexanderstreet.com/GLMUdownload.htm

The July issue of Music Media Monthly is live. A monthly publication edited by Rick Anderson, this blog brings you reviews of the best recordings, books, videos, and Web sites for music lovers.

Editor Rick Anderson writes: "You thought July was hot enough already? Well, you haven’t experienced hot until you’ve checked out the offerings in this month’s issue of Music Media Monthly. Break out the sunblock, because Anne Shelley is filling you in on a brilliant Aaron Copland documentary and an equally glorious video examination of the art of the thematic variation (as performed by Danie Barenboim, Andras Schiff and Yefim Bronfman). Steve Dankner discusses a blistering new book on Liszt’s transcriptions and a collection of studies on Ravel.
Gene Hyde brings us word of a steaming-hot website for drummers and lovers of drumming in all musical genres. And I discuss several blazingly
great new releases from such tropical climes as Jamaica (Roy Ellis), North Carolina (Don Dixon and Marti Jones), er, New York (Paul Motian),
and, um, Germany (Echo Beach). Put on your hippest sunglasses, break out your most styling parasol, and enjoy! Read it here.

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.

Listen for three times as long!

Last month, we did something huge: we tripled the size of our Music Online collection. You read that right: tripled. We added more than 400,000 new recordings to individual libraries, including 46,000 tracks into American Song, 61,000 tracks into Jazz Music Library, and 132,000 tracks into Contemporary World Music. We also added something entirely new, just for subscribers to the complete Music Online—Listening suite: nearly 140,000 recordings of 20th century popular music, including pop, punk, hip-hop, country, and musical theater.

We've also increased search speeds and functionality, and we've improved sound quality. We're not done yet: expect that track number to grow even more throughout this year!

For full details, visit our website to read the press release and learn more about Music Online.

The December issue of Music Media Monthly is now live!

Music Media Monthly's December issue is out, and it's filled with the quality and variety you (and we) love! Among the videos is "Tchaikovsky's only comic opera", and CDs include Jordi Savall's collection of Celtic tunes on the viola de gamba and a fantastic fortieth-anniversary compilation from Rounder. There's also a fantastic selection of holiday Web resources. All in all, staying inside with Music Media Monthly is a great way to spend a cold December day...though you may have to brave the weather to find the reviewed Mahler biography at the bookstore. Check it out!

Interface enhancement for Music Online

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.

Free Download: Paraguarí

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.

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.