Wellesley College Music Library

David Bowie would have been 71 this year. Stop by and check out our display in his honor, put together by Dani Brooks, '17.

In celebration of Pride Month, the Wellesley Music Library is also celebrating the birthday of great American songwriter Cole Porter.

Bringing ancient sounds back to life...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/arts/international/bringing-ancient-sounds-back-to-life.html?_r=1

The European Music Archaeology Project Recreates Instruments of Old A program is helping experts recreate long-lost instruments. (Audio clips of the carnyx, the hornpipe and the vulture-bone flute.)

Come check out our newest exhibit, featuring 8 composers who settled in America after fleeing N**i Germany.

RIP Chuck Berry, one of the legendary founders of rock 'n' roll.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/03/18/berry/ft4c0i4pA24pSl94U7950K/story.html

Chuck Berry, legend who formed the bedrock of rock ’n’ roll, dies at 90 - The Boston Globe Chuck Berry, the father of rock ’n’ roll who duckwalked his way into musical history, composing, singing, and playing guitar on such anthems as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven,’” and “Rock and Roll Music,” died Saturday at his St.