The Performing Arts Library
The former Music Library officially changed its name to Performing Arts Library (PAL) in September 1997. During the year over 8,000 theatre books were transferred into PAL from Hornbake and McKeldin Libraries including the George Bryan Theatre Collection. The library staff continued to develop plans for digital library services in its new facility, scheduled to open in late 2000. A proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation to fund an intercampus Digital Music Library consortium for a five-year research grant.
New collection highlights for the year included:
- The duo-piano team of Yarbrough and Cowan established a collection in the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM);
- Alexander Sherman added 30 home movies to the IPAM collection of his mother, Nadia Reisenberg, eminent pianist and teacher;
- The Clara Rockmore Collection was given to IPAM by her nephew, Robert Sherman, a renowned Theremin performer;
- The Society for Music Theory established its Archives as part of the Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA);
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clarke gave a collection of manuscript and autographed items related to Louise and Sydney Homer to SCPA. (Louis Homer was a renowned American opera singer and her husband was a respected composer and teacher);
- The Asher Zlotnik Collection was established in SCPA by his widow Rosalyn Zlotnik. Mr. Zlotnik was a Baltimore teacher of composition and his papers reflect extensive research into orchestral conducting;
- Kenneth Slater gave the George and Kenneth Slater Collection to the American Bandmasters Association Research Center in SCPA. Both men were professional bandsmen;
- Daniel Leeson completed the gift of his collection of music scores to the International Clarinet Association Research Center in SCPA. Over the past two years Mr. Leeson has given SCPA more than 2,000 valuable clarinet scores.
In April 1998 the PAL staff played a central role in the International Rachmaninoff Festival and Conference held on campus, performing, lecturing, editing the official program, and mounting an exhibit entitled "Celebrating Rachmaninoff."
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