News and Events
Percy Grainger in the Top Ten
A piano roll recording of Percy Grainger performing 'Country Gardens' is in the 2008 top ten list of new Sounds of Australia added to the National Registry of Recorded Sound added to the National Registry of Recorded Sound, a public list of Australian recordings that celebrates the widest traditions of recorded sound culture and history in Australia.
Rare Collections in the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library to be Catalogued
The Louise B.M. Hanson-Dyer & J.B. Hanson Bequest, which is administered by the Hanson Bequest Committee, has granted $138,000 to the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library to catalogue rare collections in 2008 and 2009. These collections are rich in material associated with the development of western art music in Victoria. Rare recordings of Aboriginal music, music manuscripts of 19th-century operas performed in Melbourne and patriotic sheet music are a few of the kinds of material that will be more accessible to researchers as a result of this generous grant. Collections to be catalogued include:
- Historic orchestral collection
- Australian sheet music
- Newspaper clippings 1895-1945
- Stockigt clarinet collection
- White clarinet collection
- Organ music
- Michael Tippett Archive
- Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) Archive
- Musical instruments, Photographs, Furniture
- 78rpm records
In this, the 100th year of the Music Library, it is timely that the cultural riches here will be made available to researchers, students and anyone with music-related interests.
Tiegs Zoology Museum Web Site Goes Live
The web site for the Tiegs Zoology Museum is now live, thanks to the efforts of Eleanor Brignell. Visit the site and watch as it expands over the coming months.
Rare French Volumes Acquired by Baillieu Library
An extemely rare French two-volume set has been acquired for the Special Collections of the Baillieu Library. The Ordonnances consulaires pour les echelles du Levant et de Barbarie, couvrant la période 1681-1854 includes otherwise inaccessible material on the French Revolution’s impact upon the Muslim world, showing how revolutionary policy was translated outside Europe to the communities of Istanbul, Smyrna, Aleppo and elsewhere. In addition, it contains a great deal of important material on trade and military matters, which can help to illuminate the transformation of world trade at the end of the eighteenth century and the move toward European military hegemony during this period.
Archive of Laser, Sound and Image Artist JS Ostoja-Kotkowski Inscribed on UNESCO Memory of the World Register
The archives of one of the world’s earliest artists to work with laser, sound and image production - Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski – and which are partly kept in the University of Melbourne’s Special Collections, have been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register for Australia.
See: Katherine Smith, 'UNESCO Memory of the World registers Melbourne art archives', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 4, 17 March-14 April 2008, p. 4.
News
Silvia Dropulich, 'Treasures revealed', The Voice, vol. 3, no. 6, 11 August-8 September 2008, p. 15.
Andrew Jamieson, 'Australian archaeologists at Pella', Art Events Ideas, issue 1, 2008, p. 5.
Ann Brothers, 'Double launch in Medical History Museum', Art Events Ideas, issue 1, 2008, p. 10.
Janine Sim-Jones, 'Centuries-old medical books on display', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 4, 17 March-14 April 2008, p. 8.
Melissa Kent, 'Curing headaches can be such a pain', The Age, 9 March 2008.
Maryrose Cuskelly, 'From beards to badges: A student activist tradition', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 3, 3-17 March 2008, p. 8.
Annie Lawson, 'Secret City: The Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum', The Age, 19 February 2008. p. 15.
Silvia Dropulich, 'Art as History', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 2, 8 February-3 March 2008, p. 8.
Suzy Freeman-Greene, 'A fine body of work', The Age, 2 February 2008, A2 section, pp. 16-17 (Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology).