Back to News

Music

Showing 1 - 7 of 10
Smiling older man wearing a dark blue knit cap with ribbed portion folded back, black scarf and dark sweater

Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim joins OHAM’s collection of major figures in American music

November 13, 2024
Acclaimed musician Abdullah Ibrahim is among the 1,700 greats whose interview is in OHAM‘s Major Figures in American Music collection.
Three lines of musical score with notations "Allegro," "Ped." and "Man." Handwritten in ink at top is "I Variations on America (1891) for organ"

Library co-hosts weekend celebration of composer Charles Ives to mark his 150th year

October 4, 2024
Musical performances, panel discussions, and an exhibition at Gilmore Music Library fill a weekend-long celebration Oct. 26-27.

Library adds three more gospel legends to its collection of oral history interviews

May 13, 2024
Oral history interviews with gospel stars Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Richard Smallwood, and BeBe Winans join 3,000 others in Gilmore Music Library collection.
Man in dark suit and red tie, with wavy black and gray hair, smiles at camera, holding a viola in front of chest

New Yale Library Miles Hoffman Concert Series opens April 19

April 2, 2024
Sponsored by the Gilmore Music Library, the new annual series honors noted violinist and classical music commentator Miles Hoffman ’73.
Woman dressed in black bends over keyboard of open grand piano

Yale Library acquires historic video interviews with leading musicians

April 1, 2024
More than 250 interviews recorded for NewMusicBox between 1999 and 2020 will be digitized and made freely avaialable to researchers
cake with white icing with "Gilmore Music Library 25 years at Sterling" written in blue icing

Photo gallery: Gilmore Music Library staff celebrates 25th anniversary

November 8, 2023
Staff, friends, and Handsome Dan gathered to celebrate the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library’s 25th year in Sterling.
Interior of brick space with four floors and steel arches and large windows and skylights. Wooden half-columns support mezzanine level with green shaded panels in railing

Gilmore Music Library celebrates 25 years at home in Sterling Library

October 12, 2023
In 1998, the Gilmore Music Library moved from its crowded home in Sprague Hall into a soaring new space in Sterling Memorial Library.
More news...