Clik here to view.
Aloha! Upcoming Sound Salon celebrates Hawaiian music
Steel guitar player Alan Akaka. What better way to warm up on a brisk October evening than with a little Hawaiian music? At this upcoming Sound Salon, master of ceremony Henry Sapoznik introduces the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yiddish Theater Sound Salon, November 14
The popular Sound Salon series returns to the Libraries next week, this time with a Yiddish Theater bent. Andreas Feininger, Yiddish Vaudeville, New York (c. 1939). Courtesy of Henry Sapoznik. “On the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Library of the Month—Mills Music Library
The Mills Music Library houses a unique collection of music scores, recorded music, periodicals, microfilm, and of course, books on a variety of topics related to music and the arts. Conveniently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World Records: The Mayrent Collection of Yiddish 78s & the Future of Historic...
“World Records” celebrates Mills Music Library‘s acquisition of the Mayrent Collection of Yiddish 78s. This conference and concert will focus on the important role that Mills and other sound archives...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mills Music Library and a Menagerie of Music
Mills Music Library made an appearance in a recent New York Times article, “A Menagerie of Music Lives in a Box,” about the release of a Paramount Records boxed set, featuring more than 800 newly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Flying Cloud: Irish Music in Upper Midwestern Lumber Camps
At this upcoming Sound Salon, come hear Brian Miller talk about and perform Irish-American songs and tunes that flourished in the lumber camps of the Upper Midwest and beyond. A native of the northern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Tamburitza Tradition: The book! The event!
Mills Music Library, in conjunction with University of Wisconsin Press, presents Richard March, author of the newly published book The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bunny Berigan: Still Swingin’& Jumpin’ at the Mills Music Library
Bunny Berigan, 1939 in Jacobs Beach, NY.(Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Mike Zirpolo, bunnyberiganmrtrumpet.com) Mike Zirpolo spent 50 years fascinated with tragic and talented jazz trumpeter of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irish books gifted to UW Libraries in honor Kevin Reilly, former UW System...
Kevin ReilleyUW System President 2004-2013 After nine years as the University of Wisconsin System President, Kevin Reilly made his departure on December 31, 2013, taking a position as presidential...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aloha! Upcoming Sound Salon celebrates Hawaiian music
Steel guitar player Alan Akaka. What better way to warm up on a brisk October evening than with a little Hawaiian music? At this upcoming Sound Salon, master of ceremony Henry Sapoznik introduces the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yiddish Theater Sound Salon, November 14
The popular Sound Salon series returns to the Libraries next week, this time with a Yiddish Theater bent. Andreas Feininger, Yiddish Vaudeville, New York (c. 1939). Courtesy of Henry Sapoznik. “On the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Library of the Month—Mills Music Library
The Mills Music Library houses a unique collection of music scores, recorded music, periodicals, microfilm, and of course, books on a variety of topics related to music and the arts. Conveniently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World Records: The Mayrent Collection of Yiddish 78s & the Future of Historic...
“World Records” celebrates Mills Music Library‘s acquisition of the Mayrent Collection of Yiddish 78s. This conference and concert will focus on the important role that Mills and other sound archives...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mills Music Library and a Menagerie of Music
Mills Music Library made an appearance in a recent New York Times article, “A Menagerie of Music Lives in a Box,” about the release of a Paramount Records boxed set, featuring more than 800 newly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Flying Cloud: Irish Music in Upper Midwestern Lumber Camps
At this upcoming Sound Salon, come hear Brian Miller talk about and perform Irish-American songs and tunes that flourished in the lumber camps of the Upper Midwest and beyond. A native of the northern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Tamburitza Tradition: The book! The event!
Mills Music Library, in conjunction with University of Wisconsin Press, presents Richard March, author of the newly published book The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bunny Berigan: Still Swingin’& Jumpin’ at the Mills Music Library
Bunny Berigan, 1939 in Jacobs Beach, NY.(Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Mike Zirpolo, bunnyberiganmrtrumpet.com) Mike Zirpolo spent 50 years fascinated with tragic and talented jazz trumpeter of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irish books gifted to UW Libraries in honor Kevin Reilly, former UW System...
Kevin ReilleyUW System President 2004-2013 After nine years as the University of Wisconsin System President, Kevin Reilly made his departure on December 31, 2013, taking a position as presidential...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mills Music Library: Sound Salon
Lambert Yiddish Cylinders, in their cases. Sound Salon: Attractive Hebrews: The Lambert Yiddish Cylinders, 1901-1905 CD Release Party Free and Open to the Public Tuesday, October 18, 2016 7:00pm –...
View Article
