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John Everett Millais, Jason Rosenfeld, Gift of Malcolm Warner

Call number: 759.2/M645/R813

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was one of the most significant English painters of the nineteenth century. In this new study of the artist's life and work, author Rosenfeld demonstrates that the development of Millais's art was at the forefront of contemporary painting throughout his life and not just his earlier Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces. This beautiful book includes 200 illustrations from Millais's best-loved work, archival material and a few surprises. And for the first time, Millais's landscapes, which influenced Van Gogh, and his portraits, which influenced John Singer Sargent, are given due attention.

Music Book
Music Book

Living space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and free jazz, from analog to digital, Michael E. Veal

Call number: 781.65/V394

A musical study of free jazz, specifically John Coltrane's controversial 'late period' and Miles Davis's long-neglected 'Lost Quintet,' bringing jazz into dialogue with experimental currents in analysis of architecture and photography. Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the traditional language of jazz analysis. The book follows the controversial trajectories of two jazz legends, emerging from the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Compact Disc
Compact Disc

After Bach, Brad Mehldau, Gift of Dottie Bybee

Call number: J M47.8 af

The album comprises four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from Partita for Keyboard No. 4 in D Major, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of the Baroque master—including his Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme. Mehldau, speaking of the “universality” of Bach’s music, says in his liner note: “The more you try to engage with him, the more your own personality becomes visible, unavoidably. You are not playing Bach—Bach is playing you, in the sense that he lays you bare ... The greatest choice you make at all times is not out of an absence, but from what is there, in its totality. Specifically, it is the constant choice you make in how to negotiate between harmony and melody.” He continues, “This is why Bach is a model for me as a jazz musician. In my improvised solos, I want to make melodic phrases that carry harmonic implication, and create harmony that moves in a melodic fashion. This is a crucial component in the storytelling.”

ART BOOKS

 

Art Basel: year 46

Edwardian opulence: British art at the dawn of the twentieth century, Gift of John Wilson

Margaret Bourke-White: the early years, 1922-1930

Sussex landscape: chalk, wood and water, Gift of John Wilson

William Rothenstein and his circle, Gift of John Wilson

Andy Warhol: motion pictures, Mary Lea Bandy

This is tomorrow: twentieth-century Britain and its artists, Michael Bird, Gift of John Wilson

Arts & Crafts stained glass, Peter Cormack, Gift of John Wilson

The street of wonderful possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street, Devon Cox, Gift of John Wilson

Armenia: art, religion, and trade in the Middle Ages, Helen C. Evans

Andy Warhol prints: a catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, Frayda Feldman

British art and the First World War, 1914-1924, James Fox, Gift of John Wilson

Millais: portraits, Peter Funnell, Gift of Malcolm Warner

Striking resemblance: the changing art of portraiture, Donna Gustafson, Gift of John Wilson

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: class, culture and art in 20th century Britain, Tanya Harrod, Gift of John Wilson

Alexander Calder: modern from the start, Cara Manes

Pre-Raphaelite sisters, Jan Marsh, Gift of John Wilson

City of gold and mud: painting Victorian London, Nancy Rose Marshall, Gift of John Wilson

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504, Scott Nethersole

Listening to clay: conversations with contemporary Japanese ceramic artists, Alice North, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Industry and ingenuity: the partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, Hugh Roberts, Gift of John Wilson

John Everett Millais, Jason Rosenfeld, Gift of Malcolm Warner

Seeing differently: the Phillips collects for a new century, Elsa Smithgall

The real and the romantic: English art between two world wars, Frances Spalding, Gift of John Wilson

Manet/Degas, Stephan Wolohojian

Inquisitive eyes: Slade painters in Edwardian Wessex, Gwen Yarker, Gift of John Wilson

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Orientation cube, Islam Aly

This land is my land, Thad Higa

The smoke inside, Roger Peet

Hawaii inside & out: hula la, Sibyl Rubottom, Gift of Sibyl Rubottom

GRAPHIC NOVELS

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MUSIC BOOKS

 

Pat Metheny: stories beyond words, Bob Gluck

Cello: a journey through silence to sound, Kate Kennedy

Every valley: the desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel's Messiah, Charles King

Tchaikovsky's empire: a new life of Russia's greatest composer, Simon Morrison

The jazzmen: how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America, Larry Tye

Living space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and free jazz, from analog to digital, Michael E. Veal

REFERENCE BOOKS

 

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

 

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YOUNG PEOPLE

 

Peacocks and palaces: exploring the art of India, Lucy Holland

LIBRETTO

 

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MUSIC SCORES

Farewell to Stromness, Peter Maxwell Davies, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Three diatonic waltzes, Gordon Getty, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

COMPACT DISCS

 

The music of Pfitzner, Hartmann, Zimmermann

Blue room: the 1979 Vara Studio sessions in Holland, Chet Baker, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Some skunk funk, Randy Brecker, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

The north wind was a woman, David Bruce, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

The Gennett suite, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

September, Claudia Quintet, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Naked truth, Avishai Cohen, Gift of Peter Herman

Playing the room, Avishai Cohen, Gift of Peter Herman

Adrian Cunningham & his friends play Lerner & Loewe, Adrian Cunningham

Les brises d'Orient; Les minarets, Félicien David, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Mirrors, Jeanine De Bique, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Trompeta toccata, Kenny Dorham, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Spark!, Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford, Gift of Peter Herman

Hand eye, Eighth Blackbird, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Don Ellis at Fillmore, Don Ellis, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Road to the sun, Amina Figarova, Gift of Peter Herman

From Hungary to Taiwan, Formosa Quartet, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Twenty estudos, Camargo Guarnieri, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Standards, Noah Haidu, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Something special, Jim Hall, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Piano sonatas no. 1, 2 & 3, Hyacinthe Jadin, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Bordeaux concert, Keith Jarrett, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

String quartets 1-4, Hugo Kauder, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Violin concerto, Thierry Lancino, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

8: kindred spirits, live from the Lobero, Charles Lloyd, Gift of Peter Herman

Passin' thru, Charles Lloyd, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

The solo piano music, vol. 1, Giuseppe Martucci, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

After Bach, Brad Mehldau, Gift of Dottie Bybee

After Bach II, Brad Mehldau, Gift of Dottie Bybee

Mehliana: taming the dragon, Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, Gift of Peter Herman

Live at Yoshi's, volume one, Mulgrew Miller, Gift of Peter Herman

Les liaisons dangereuses 1960, Thelonious Monk, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

The great jazz piano of Phineas Newborn Jr., Phineas Newborn, Jr., Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Awase, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Gift of Peter Herman

Debussy, Rameau, Vikingur Ólafsson, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Anima sacra, Jakub Józef Orliński, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Live at Iridium, New York, Jean-Michel Pilc, Gift of Peter Herman

Threedom, Jean-Michel Pilc, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Mirror of truth, Clara Ponty, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

New York days, Enrico Rava, Gift of Peter Herman

Still dreaming, Joshua Redman, Gift of Peter Herman

Duologue, Alfredo Rodríguez, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

Pièces de viole, Sieur de Sainte Colombe

Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller's Parlour Game, Jenny Scheinman, Gift of Peter Herman

Scherzi musicali, op. VI, Johann Schenck

Œuvres de jeunesse: (1828-1841), Clara Schumann, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Swallow tales, John Scofield, Gift of Peter Herman

Christmas with the George Shearing Quintet, George Shearing, Gift of Marie Vickers in honor of F. Norman Vickers, M.D.

Soul song, Archie Shepp, Gift of the Estate of Barry Levine

The bell, Ches Smith, Gift of Peter Herman

Change of heart, Martin Speake, Gift of Peter Herman

Concerto no. 1 for piano & orchestra in B flat minor; Fragment from Symphony no. 3, Wilhelm Stenhammar

Silent songs, Valentin Sylʹvestrov, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

La bergamasca, Marco Uccellini, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

Consort music for five and six viols, John Ward

Piano concerto; Pierrot in der Flasche, Eric Zeisl, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer

LPs

 

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DVDs

 

Die tote Stadt, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer