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Wozworld knows that everyone is looking for some intellectual stimulation during the break between semesters.  Rather than relegate yourself to watching reruns of old sitcoms on TVLand, you can engage your mind and ponder issues directly relating to artistic creativity by reading Dead Composers, Living Audiences: The Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century by our own Dr. Gerry Phillips.  Cook Library is the proud owner of this handsome, recently published book, donated to us and signed by the author.  A quick perusal of the book is not possible, as opening to almost any chapter will immediately capture your attention.  Whether you tend to listen to Baroque music while baking or exercise with Tan Dun on your iPod, the idea of finding a middle ground between our traditional music training and our appreciation and performance of new music is an issue that affects almost every performer or concert-goer.  Dr. Phillips explores the topic admirably in this volume – check it out!

With the New Year comes a reminder that our beloved Grove Music Online database has been folded into the larger Oxford Music Online database product.  The database listing on the Subject Guide to Music on the Cook Library web page has a note next to the Oxford Online entry that it includes Grove Music Online, but this note is easy to miss.  If you want to see Grove Music Online, please remember to open Oxford Music Online where you can restrict your searching just to Grove’s or include the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.