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By Stephen Mantz If you’re in Boulder, answers to your music questions are as close as the Howard B. Waltz Music Library. Whether you visit the music library’s Web site (http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/music/) or come to the Imig Music Building in person, the library staff is available to help. But what if you are not in the [...]
Associate Professor of Musicology Brenda Romero is the recipient of a book contract for the Folklore Studies for a Multicultural World Series, a Mellon initiative with the American Folklore Society, the University of Illinois Press, University of Wisconsin Press, and University of Minnesota Press. A national competition, they chose 6 authors. Her proposal The Transcultural Matachines, [...]
The Glenn Miller Archive has acquired one of the world’s most significant collections of Big Band Era recordings and memorabilia.
The Music Library Association (MLA) has elected CU-Boulder Music Library Faculty Director Laurie J. Sampsel as one of its three new Board of Directors Members-at-Large. Laurie J. Sampsel is Faculty Director of the Waltz Music Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously she served as Music Librarian for the same institution and Cataloger [...]
The Howard B. Waltz Music Library now has unlimited users for Naxos Music Library! This will enable College faculty and staff to rely upon Naxos for use in the classroom, during tests, for course reserves, and any other listening needs. The Naxos Music Library includes over 45,500 CDs of music licensed for educational use available [...]
Laurie Sampsel, faculty director of the Howard B. Waltz Music Library, is the recipient of the 2009 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award. The award comes with a $1,000 research/creative work grant and a plaque. The commendation from Interim Provost Stein Sture noted Sampsel’s 2008 book on music research published by Oxford University Press. Laurie was recognized [...]