On Friday, May 1st,
Special Collections will be hosting a concert put on by the students of MUSE
1196, or Collegium Musicum, and music department chair David Heller. The class has been inactive for almost 10
years, but the passion of first years Ryun Howe and Joshua Cohen brought it
back to life in order to put on this event.
Ryun and Joshua were inspired to
take action after discovering the sheet music available in the Tuesday Musical
Club collection in Special Collections. The collection has a
range of different sheet music, but the students took a particular interest in a
set of arrangements of Handel’s overtures from the 1750s, in their original
publication. They continued to visit and
practiced playing the music, and upon Megan’s suggestion, brought the idea for
the concert to Dr. Heller.
We’ve been very excited to help put
this together, because it represents exactly what we want to offer to students
down here in Special Collections and Archives: an opportunity to discover
something interesting and inspiring in our resources for whatever they might be
passionate about. Our sheet music is
only a small part of the wealth of material we have available, and we hope that
more and more students will take advantage of this resource that many don’t
realize they have access to.
We also hope that the Collegium
Musicum concert will be a success! Join
us Friday afternoon for free music, refreshments, and a relaxed atmosphere, and to
learn more about what you can discover in our collection.
--Darcie Marquardt, Class of 2016
