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Sheet music. Recordings. Videos. Personal papers. All stored neatly in rows of boxes — like the warehouse of artifacts at the end of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.””
Among the top “5 things you didn’t know are in Greensboro” the News and Record included the UNCG Cello Music Collection. You check out the article here: 5 things you didn’t know are in Greensboro – Greensboro News & Record: News
Douglas B. Moore Joins the Cellists Represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to announce the donation of the collection of Douglas B. Moore to the UNCG Cello Music Collection. Douglas Moore was Professor of Music at Williams College from 1970 to 2007, and cellist with the Williams Chamber Players and the Williams Trio. His Bachelor of […]
Cello Music Collection Material on Television
The Fox Business channel is airing a new television series, Strange Inheritance, which will be featuring material from the Bernard Greenhouse Cello Music Collection. The pilot episode focuses on the Greenhouse family’s inheritance of the Countess of Stanlein, the Stradivarius violoncello dating to 1707, originally owned by Nicolò Paganini. After Bernard Greenhouse passed away in […]
Remembering the Legacy of Laszlo Varga
Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Solo Violin arranged for5 Stringed Cello by Laszlo Varga Renowned cellist Laszlo Varga passed away December 11, 2014. Born in 1924, Varga studied at the Franz Liszt Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. After escaping the forced labor camps in Hungary during World War II, Varga immigrated to the United States, […]
Happy Birthday Cello Music Collection!
October 23 marks the fifty-first birthday of the UNCG Cello Music Collection, the single largest holding of cello music-related materials in the world. This unique archive, presently representing the collections of eleven cellists, was made possible by the generosity of countless donors, but founded through the support of Friends of the Libraries. UNCG Cello Music […]
