New Sounds : local performers, Electrical Bananas, Firework Dogs & assorted others.
Lots of new arrivals in the Library’s large collection of recordings by local groups, performers and composers, all released on independent labels.
Rare Books & Arts
Maggie Diaz: remembering a life as modern as tomorrow
Maggie Diaz was an American-born Australian commercial photographer who lived and worked in Melbourne.
New Listening in Arts: Shows & Soundtracks : Bright Star to Chinatown, and much more.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
For the New Year, some great new additions to the Library’s large and growing collection of film soundtracks, and Broadway musical cast albums. From classic scores like Chinatown and Mame, to the contemporary sounds of Waitress and… Read More ›
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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.
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.
