Remembering Richard Divall
A good friend to State Library Victoria, Maestro Richard Divall sadly passed away on the weekend after a long battle with cancer.
Rare Books & Arts
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New books in Arts, more fun than a barrel of Monkees
Monkees, movies and a bit of glam, welcome to 2017 in the Arts Library.
Festive Sights and Sounds: Bandstand, Shakespeare, Mozart, Carols and much more.
The sounds of Melbourne Music Week may be fading into the distance, but there’s still lots to listen to here at the State Library.
Sincerely, L. Cohen
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
2016 has been a tough year for music lovers and now, as the year draws to a close, we’ve lost Leonard Cohen as well.
New books, and something très bon from the sixties!
Classics of all kinds hit the shelves in Arts this week
New Listening: Flutes, Beatles, Haydn, and more Spring sounds.
More great music coming into the collection, and surely something for everyone!
It’s art Jim, but not as we know it; new books to stretch the imagination
Denizens of the night, a plethora of postcards, illuminated walls, and things that go bump in the night; all in a day’s work for the Arts Library’s new book stand.
New Sights & Sounds: Molly, Warhol, Vertigo, Hamilton, Winter Classics, & more
Some great new arrivals include latest releases and favourite titles in pop, rock, film soundtracks, opera, classical, musical theatre and the visual arts, on CD, DVD and online database. Molly : music from television mini-series soundtrack by various… Read More ›
Jean Stewart’s ballet photography
Jean Stewart’s atmospheric ballet photographs capture the drama and beauty of the Victorian Ballet.
The interwebs are singing with some musical ebooks
Some familiar musical names, and maybe some not so familiar, but all of them well worth getting to know; not to mention a clip of Judy Garland that will take your breath away!
