Scholar discovers missing bassoon line in Ravel manuscript
While studying the 1911 manuscript of Maurice Ravel’s “Mother Goose” ballet suite, housed at the Ransom Center, scholar Arbie Orenstein discovered the largest error in all of Ravel’s scores: a bassoon...
View ArticleThe ballet performance that sparked a riot
It is 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the audience is screaming, cat-calling, and fist-fighting. It’s the most famous riot in classical music history at the premiere of the ballet The Rite...
View ArticleTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for...
The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information...
View ArticleUndergraduates review music production records for “Rebecca” to understand...
James Buhler is an Associate Professor in Music Theory and the Director of the Center for American Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Below, he writes about using materials from the Ransom...
View ArticleTwenty-four Hours with the Herd, a night of image and sound with Graham Reynolds
Critically acclaimed Austin composer Graham Reynolds (Golden Arm Trio, Bernie, Before Sunset) breathes new life into Frank Reaugh’s 1933 masterpiece, Twenty-four Hours with the Herd, a musical...
View ArticleHandel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment
Justine Provino is a recent graduate of the Master of Conservation of Cultural Heritage program at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, in the Book and Paper Department with Professor Claude...
View ArticleAustin Symphony director talks Shakespeare and music
Peter Bay is the Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. His resume includes appearances with more than 75 orchestras, several summer music festivals around the nation, multiple...
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The Harry Ransom Center holds a wide variety of materials, from Robert De Niro’s Taxi Driver script and costume to Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves. These and many other items are on display in...
View ArticleScholar finds Adolfo Betti collection relating to The Flonzaley Quartet music...
Antonio Baldassarre (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) discusses his research interests in advance of his visit to the Ransom Center. Baldassarre is supported by the C. P. Snow Memorial...
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The ballet performance that sparked a riot
Nicholas Roerich, Russian, 1874–1947. Hat and robe from the original production of "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), 1913 It is 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the audience is...
View ArticleTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for...
The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information...
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Twenty-four Hours with the Herd, a night of image and sound with Graham Reynolds
Critically acclaimed Austin composer Graham Reynolds (Golden Arm Trio, Bernie, Before Sunset) breathes new life into Frank Reaugh’s 1933 masterpiece, Twenty-four Hours with the Herd, a musical...
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Handel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment
Justine Provino is a recent graduate of the Master of Conservation of Cultural Heritage program at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, in the Book and Paper Department with Professor Claude...
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Austin Symphony director talks Shakespeare and music
Peter Bay is the Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. His resume includes appearances with more than 75 orchestras, several summer music festivals around the nation, multiple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This reminds me of a song…
The Harry Ransom Center holds a wide variety of materials, from Robert De Niro’s Taxi Driver script and costume to Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves. These and many other items are on display in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scholar finds Adolfo Betti collection relating to The Flonzaley Quartet music...
Antonio Baldassarre (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) discusses his research interests in advance of his visit to the Ransom Center. Baldassarre is supported by the C. P. Snow Memorial...
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