Collection of programs from student recitals given during the 1978-1979 academic year by students in the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.

Collection of programs from guest recitals given during the 1978-1979 academic year given by guests of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.

Collection of programs from faculty member recitals given during the 1978-1979 academic year by faculty members in the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.

Collection of programs from guest recitals given during the 2023-2024 academic year given by guests of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.

"With these eloquent words from his study The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, Tony Heilbut identifies the essence of a music that has sustained and sweetened the lives of millions of Americans through its powers of ...

"In spite of its central position in Western musical culture for the past several centuries, the orchestra must be understood as a relatively recent development in the annals of our music's long and illustrious history. ...

A program covering the three days of the Ninth Annual Chancellor's Festival of Music.

"The modern concert-goer can recognize the music dating from the approximately one hundred fifty years now known as the Baroque Era (1600-1750) in various ways. The most easily heard clue, perhaps, is the presence of a ...

Plot synopsis: Act I. Near Seville. Spain, at the Almaviva estate. the sun has arisen on the wedding day of Figaro, the Count's valet, and Susanna. the maid to the Countess. As the two servants inspect the quarters they ...

"What is appropriate concert-fare for an academic festival? For the performance of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of the University of Missouri at Columbia, ...

"The selections on tonight's program present compelling evidence to hear the music of these composers with fresh ears. The Vivaldi trio sonata for flute, oboe, and bassoon is an engaging example of the tunefulness and ...

"As a nation of immigrants, the United States has been blessed with an extraordinarily rich body of folk music. One significant stream of folk resources, the songs and dances of early settlers from the British Isles, was ...

"MUSICAL NATIONALISM AND DVORAK: Regional and national styles of music and tastes in music have been of ever-present importance in the history of Western fine-art music. The evolution, confrontation, and cross-fertilization ...

"Times have changed! It was not so very long ago that musicians in the fine-art tradition preferred to concern themselves almost exclusively with the music of European masters. Because American culture was the unruly ...

"The word 'style' may be one of the most overworked and misunderstood terms in the lexicon of the arts. Indeed, many users have been found for the word in the world of music. The observation that 'Cleo Lain sings with ...

"Any program of instrumental pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), and Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is certain to display rather emphatically the progressive musical priorities of the early ...

"When the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) published his controversial play Le Roi s'amuse (The King Amuses Himself), he felt obliged to include in a preface an explanation of his intentions. In the drama, he confessed, ...

"It might be argued, in general, that there are only three reasons why a composer should be singled out for true greatness. First, a composer is valued if he is a genuine innovator. Although Cicero proclaimed in the century ...