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Musical of the Month: Naughty Marietta

by Doug Reside, Digital Curator of Performing Arts, Library for the Performing Arts
May 25, 2012

A Guest Blog By Ellen Peck

To music historian Richard Traubner, operetta evokes “gaiety and lightheartedness, sentiment and Schmalz” (Traubner, Operetta: A Theatrical History, revised edition, 2003). If any song in the history of American musical theatre has earned a reputation for schmaltz, it would have to be “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” from the 1910 Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young operetta Naughty Marietta.

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Reclaiming My West Indian Roots, with Poetry

by Ann-Marie Nicholson, Editor, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
April 24, 2012

As a young girl growing up in Jamaica — and later in Brooklyn, NY — I often heard the poetry of Louise Bennett (Jamaicans affectionately call her "Miss Lou") permeate the air. One of my earliest recollections of Miss Lou’s lyricism was hearing the term mout amassi 

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Best of Patron Requests: Music (April 2012 Edition)

by Andy Wagstaff, Central Collection Development
April 30, 2012

This list is a monthly compilation of my own personal favorite patron requests for music. I hope you will check out some of the great music that Library users have suggested we acquire!

Provided are some great preview tracks for each. Just click on the titles to be 

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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL — May 20, 2012

by Adriana Blancarte-Hayward, Library Manager, New Dorp Library
May 21, 2012

Please help PROTECT YOUR BRANCH nypl.org/speakout
It takes just seconds to sign a letter urging elected officials to reverse the harshest cut to The New York Public Library in its history. 

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