USC Music Library

"Though undated in the autograph, [K. 421] is believed to have been completed in 1783, while his wife Constanze was in labor with her first child Raimund. [She] stated that the rising string figures in the second movement corresponded to her cries from the other room."

At long last, we have new directional signs around the Music Library! Now you can more easily find that arrangement of the theme from "Dynasty" for wind quintet (seriously, we have it)

From the SC Alumni Review, April 1961: Joan Meggett was the first "official" music librarian between 1954-1974 & the library's location was the recital hall of the "Old Building" (Widney Hall), which in 1955 moved to its present-day location on Childs Way

For those interested in the live stream of the Vennard Symposium tomorrow, go to https://www.youtube.com/user/USCLibrariesLibwire

We very pleased to introduce Scott Spencer as the new Music Library Supervisor, effective this week!

Scott received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2010 and went on to serve as the Irish American Cultural Institute’s Visiting Research Fellow in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has taught interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses at Trinity College Dublin, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Drew and Villanova universities. Before moving to Los Angeles, he served as Mellon Regional Faculty Fellow for the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. His background in oral history archives – including those at New York University and the City University of New York – brought him to a position at the USC Shoah Foundation, where he ran the Preserving the Legacy initiative while teaching seminars at Thornton. He remains a part-time lecturer and is currently teaching the World Music course; more information can be found at https://music.usc.edu/scott-spencer.

Early locations of the Music Library, too!

For those in the Los Angeles area this weekend, two free performances (one at the USC Mudd Hall Hoose Library of Philosophy) featuring music commissioned by women, directed by Marylin Winkle

USC Thornton Welcomes New Faculty An impressive group of artists and educators have joined the USC Thornton faculty this fall.