The Peter Jay Sharp Library at Manhattan School of Music

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New in the Library: Prokofiev. Piano sonata no. 7, op. 83. Fingering by Alexander Melnikov. G. Henle Verlag, 2024. Link below.

The best way to read The New Yorker is to download it using the Flipster app, but you can also read it online in a browser. library.msmnyc.edu/record=b1318...

Read Mark Schulman's profile and interview with Patti Lupone in this week's issue of The New Yorker, which is free to the MSM community through the Library. Link below.

Available as an ebook through the MSM Library: library.msmnyc.edu/record=b1335...

Banu Mushtaq's "Heart lamp" is the 2025 winner of the International Booker Prize.
"Praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested caste and religious oppression."

Charles Strouse, Composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, Dies at 96 Amongst the legend's songbook were "Put On a Happy Face," "Tomorrow," and "Those Were the Days."

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See also the fascinating interview with Jeffrey Kallberg on Henle's blog. blog.henle.de/en/2025/05/1...

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The Chopin waltz that was discovered in the Morgan Library last year has just been published by Henle. Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg vouches for the piece's authenticity in his preface. Download the Henle edition using the Henle Library App; see below.

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New in the Library: Symphony no. 5 for orchestra / Gustav Mahler ; edited by Christian Rudolf Riedel, Nick Pfefferkorn. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2025. Large score. Link below.

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Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James : a novel / Percival Everett. New York : Doubleday, 2024. Free through the Library by using the Ebsco Mobile app. Link below.

Here's the "magic link" that gives you free access to the Library's subscription to Art Song Transpositions. If you're off-campus, log in using your MSM email credentials. libraryguides.msmnyc.edu/artsongtrans...

Singers, pianists: Have you tried the MSM Library's subscription to Art Song Transpositions? Using it, you'll find songs transcribed into many non-standard keys. If they don't have the key you need, you can request it, and have it in a few days.

All transpositions are edited by a human musician!

Find all of our magazines on our Digital Magazine Rack. libraryguides.msmnyc.edu/az/periodicals

Composer Matthew Aucoin asks, “What Is Music?” in the May issue of The Atlantic, which you can read online or download to a reader through the Library; see below for details.

The Frick Needs a New Piano. Which Would You Choose? (Gift Article) The pianist Jeremy Denk tests three Steinways that the Frick Collection is considering for its auditorium. Watch, listen and guess which the museum picked.

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Link below. Free New York Times article, with video examples.

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New to stream in Medici TV: Verdi's "Don Carlo," live from La Scala in 1992, with Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Daniela Dessì, Luciana D'Intino, and Paolo Coni. Riccardo Muti is the conductor, and the production is by Franco Zeffirelli. Link in the comments.

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Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) : for alto saxophone and orchestra / Tyshawn Sorey. Edition Peters, 2024.

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now available in the Library. Link in the comments.

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Celebrate Ravel's 150th birthday today with the Henle Library App, which offers 17 of the composer's works that you can read on your tablet or download to your personal files as a PDF. Free to all in the MSM community! See the comments for the link to sign up.

New in the Library: The Taubman approach to piano technique : a comprehensive guide to overcome physical limitations and unlock your full pianistic potential / Edna Golandsky. Mascot Books, 2024. libraryguides.msmnyc.edu/new-additions

Through our subscription to Digital Theatre+, available at home to all MSM students and faculty, you have access to a number of video and written resources pertaining to Sondheim's "Into the Woods": login.msmnyc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=ht...

Members of the MSM community can use this link to watch Medici TV for free: login.msmnyc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=ht...

Edith Mathis, 11 February 1938 – 9 February 2025.

There are four videos available to the MSM community through the Library's subscription to Medici TV; follow the link in the comments.