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Dimitri Mitropoulos’ Music Library: From New York to Iowa and Back Again
Concert attendees at the exhibit in November 2019 On November 21, the New York Philharmonic Archives opened a new exhibit about Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) in the Bruno Walter...
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2019: Rita Benton Music Library Year in Review
2019 was a busy year for the Rita Benton Music Library at the University of Iowa. Here are a few highlights! January 2019 Music Library Infographic Student from Dr. Suhadolnik’s Fall 2018 American...
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BabelScores Now Available
The Rita Benton Music Library now provides access to BabelScores, an online scores database of over 210,000 pages of contemporary music. The catalog features composers from around the world, related...
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SOUNDS FROM THE FIELD – Jane Austen in the Age of Digital Discovery
by Marian Wilson Kimber Discovering lost pieces of music in dusty archives is what most people think musicologists do. We only make the news if someone finds an unknown manuscript by a famous composer...
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BAND 141: an exhibit celebrating the history of the Hawkeye Marching Band
This Fall, come to the Voxman Music Building for BAND 141, a look at the Hawkeye Marching Band. Director Eric Bush donated a significant collection of materials from the Band’s history including...
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Upcoming Lecture: Bohemia on Records with Guest Speaker Filip Šír
Filip Šír, coordinator for Digitization of Audio Documents at the National Museum (Prague), will talk of his work to track down and preserve early 20th century Czech sound recordings made in the United...
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Wulfie Parsons Music Library Guide, 2022 Edition
Welcome back, Hawkeyes! The Rita Benton Music Library is excited to have students and faculty return to campus to use the scores, books, recordings, journals, and other resources available in our...
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EXHIBIT: 95 [YEARS OF] THESES
In 1923, department chair Philip Greeley Clapp established graduate studies in music at the University of Iowa, and in 1924/25, the first students concluded their course of study with the submission...
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SOUNDS FROM THE FIELD – Hearing Hollywood in Iowa’s Special Collections:...
by Nathan Platte One of the problems of being a film historian is that you sometimes stumble across movies that require immediate love and attention. Four Daughters is one such film for me. Falling...
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Chamber Music at the University of Iowa: Faculty Ensembles
Chamber music has been integral to the educational and creative life of the University of Iowa School of Music for over a century. Below are a few examples, including audio clips, from 1972 to the...
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