Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875-1962), was an Italian born flutist, and the first flute instructor at the Eastman School of Music. De Lorenzo began playing the flute at a young age, but spent several years in the Italian military before completing his formal education at the conservatory in Naples. In 1910, he came to America as [...]
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Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Posted in Composers, Eastman School on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Digital Score Repair at Sibley
Posted in Digitizing on February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Musical scores take more abuse than any other printed material that I know of. Musicians push scores flat on their stands, scribble on them with indelible inks, and turn their pages with spastic and graceless motions (while they’re concentrating on other, more controlled and graceful motions). These are terrible problems for us digitizers, and here [...]
More music than you can shake a stick at
Posted in Announcements, Digitization News on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We here at Sibley have been scanning public domain scores with reckless abandon since we started in May. We’ve scanned trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, nonets, tentets, eleventets, twelvetets, and a couple of oddball thirteentets. We’ve scanned a great deal of art songs and organ and piano music, and over the next five or [...]
