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Art Book
Art Book

The museum of mysteries: art's best-kept secrets, Éléa Baucheron, Gift of Steve Shirley

Call Number: 709/B337

Art and mystery collide in this fascinating look at the secrets behind some of the world’s most important masterpieces and their creators. Who was the model for Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring? How were the Nazca Lines, the giant drawings scrawled across Peru’s desert coast, created? Why is Botticelli’s Birth of Venus an ingenious example of mathematic computation? Traveling across centuries and continents, this collection of 40 enigmatic artworks and artists examines secrets that have confounded experts and amateurs alike. Presented in beautiful color spreads, each work or artist is profiled in an absorbing and accessible commentary that draws on the latest research. While some of these mysteries have been solved, many others continue to stump even the most learned scholars. Find out what they know—and what they don’t—in this compelling collection that will deepen readers’ appreciation of some of the world’s most recognizable masterpieces.

Music Book
Music Book

Dangerous melodies: classical music in America from the Great War through the Cold War, Jonathan Rosenberg

Call number: 780.973/R813

A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations. Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers—and the activities of orchestras and opera companies-were intertwined with momentous international events: two world wars, the rise of fascism, and the Cold War. Jonathan Rosenberg recovers the politics behind classical music, showing how German musicians were dismissed or imprisoned as the country's music was swept from American auditoriums during World War I—yet, twenty years later, those same compositions could inspire Americans in the fight against Nazism while Russian music was deployed to strengthen the U.S.-Soviet alliance. During the Cold War, Van Cliburn's triumph in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow became cause for America to celebrate. In Dangerous Melodies, Rosenberg delves into the singular decades-long relationship of classical music and political ideology in America.

DVD
DVD

Blue moon, Richard Linklater

Call number: DVD 791.43/Blue mo

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees, Simon Delaney.

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi's bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical Oklahoma!

ART BOOKS

 

About Carl Andre: critical texts since 1965, Gift of Steve Shirley

Art Basel: Miami Beach, Dec. 5-8, 2013

Art Basel: Year 44

Art Basel: Year 45

Black gold: stories untold

Building a masterpiece: the Sydney Opera House

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: honor song

Murals of La Jolla 2010-2025

Nari Ward: We the people, Gift of Karen Fox

The museum of mysteries: art's best-kept secrets, Éléa Baucheron, Gift of Steve Shirley

Artemisia Gentileschi, Sheila Barker

Diary of a genius, Salvador Dalí

Into the time horizon, Apsara DiQuinzio

Remembering the future: nuclear testing, rising seas, and the Marshall Islands, Mark Klett

RE: Carrie Yamaoka, Nick Larsen

Bondage baggage, Maia Ruth Lee

Tracy Hills, Ryan McIntosh & Yorgen Muller

Glittering images: a journey through art from Egypt to Star Wars, Camille Paglia

Blazing light, Mimi Plumb

Panûpünüwügai= Living light, Cara Romero

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Dots, John Armleder

GRAPHIC NOVELS

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MUSIC BOOKS

 

The librettist of Venice: the remarkable life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Rodney Bolt

Gustav Mahler: the arduous road to Vienna (1860-1897), Henry-Louis de La Grange

Gustav Mahler: Vienna: triumph and disillusion (1904-1907), Henry-Louis de La Grange

Gustav Mahler: a new life cut short (1907-1911), Henry-Louis de La Grange

Marc Blitzstein: his life, his work, his world, Howard Pollack

Diaries, 1907-1914: prodigious youth, Sergey Prokofiev

Diaries, 1915-1923: behind the mask, Sergey Prokofiev

Dangerous melodies: classical music in America from the Great War through the Cold War, Jonathan Rosenberg

Franco Corelli & a revolution in singing: fifty-four tenors spanning 200 years, vol. 2, Stefan Zucker

Franco Corelli & a revolution in singing: fifty-four tenors spanning 200 years, vol. 3, Stefan Zucker

REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

 

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YOUNG PEOPLE

 

Making art, Diana Ejaita

The music inside of us: Yo-Yo Ma & his gifts to the world, James Howe

Botticelli's apprentice, Ursula Murray Husted

Pencil, Hye-Eun Kim

Everything is music, Miran

Dragonflies of glass: the story of Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany girls, Susan Goldman Rubin

Flora and the Jazzers, Astrid Sheckels

LIBRETTO

 

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MUSIC SCORES

Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Johann Sebastian Bach

Symphony no. 4/2, E♭ major: Romantic, Anton Bruckner

Carmina Burana, Carl Orff

Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D759 "Unfinished"; Symphony no. 9 in C major, D944 "The great", Franz Schubert

COMPACT DISCS

 

Stravaganza d'amore!: the birth of opera at the Medici Court

Amadis de Gaule, Johann Christian Bach

Symphonies 1 & 2; Song-koï (Le fleuve rouge); Les tziganes, Elsa Barraine

La bayadères, Charles-Simon Catel

Les Abencérages, ou, L'Éntendard de Grenade, Luigi Cherubini

Ritmo: the Chick Corea symphony tribute, Chick Corea

Herculanum, Félicien David

Great Lakes, Folias Duo

Hulda, César Franck

Dante, Benjamin Godard

Cinq-Mars, Charles Gounod

Faust, Charles Gounod

Le tribut de Zamora, Charles Gounod

La caravane du Caire, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

Ô mon bel inconnu, Reynaldo Hahn

Le pré aux clercs, Ferdinand Hérold

Dimitri, Victorin Joncières

La Jacquerie, Édouard Lalo

Le roi d'Ys, Édouard Lalo

La fille de Madame Angot, Charles Lecocq

Armide 1778, Jean-Baptiste Lully

Persée 1770, Jean-Baptiste Lully

Ariane, Jules Massenet

Grisélidis, Jules Massenet

Le mage, Jules Massenet

Thérèse, Jules Massenet

Werther, Jules Massenet

Les p'tites Michu, André Messager

Passionnément, André Messager

Maître Péronilla, Jacques Offenbach

La Périchole, Jacques Offenbach

La vie parisienne, Jacques Offenbach

Le voyage dans la lune, Jacques Offenbach

Le temple de la gloire, Jean-Philippe Rameau

Impromptu, Rodriguez Brothers

Renaud, Antonio Sacchini

Les barbares, Camille Saint-Saëns

Déjanire, Camille Saint-Saëns

Phryné, Camille Saint-Saëns

La princesse jaune, Camille Saint-Saëns

Proserpine, Camille Saint-Saëns

Le timbre d'argent, Camille Saint-Saëns

Les Danaïdes, Antonio Salieri

Handmade, Emilio Solla

Olimpie, Gaspare Spontini

La vestale, Gaspare Spontini

LPs

 

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DVDs

 

The zone of interest, Jonathan Glazer

American fiction, Cord Jefferson

Blue moon, Richard Linklater

It was just an accident, Jafar Panahi

Thelonious Monk: straight, no chaser, Charlotte Zwerin