News archive – Events
International Tuba Day on 1 May
Tomorrow, the first Friday in May, is International Tuba Day! This day recognizes “tubists in musical organizations around the world who have to go through the hassle of handling a tuba,” according to the official website. One of the most famous works for tuba is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for...
30 April 2015
RISM Colloquium and Open House
We’re in our fourth month at our new office, and it’s time to celebrate! Join us April 23-24 for our RISM colloquium and open house. The colloquium will feature reports from working groups. Our colleagues from Austria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom...
20 April 2015
Opera premieres from Vienna to Paris
Two rarely-heard operas are enjoying premieres now - and there are interesting sources for both in RISM. Performances of Gli uccellatori (The Birdcatchers) by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) started yesterday at the Theater an der Wien. There are three sources for the overture in the RISM online catalog, two in...
23 March 2015
New research on copyists and watermarks
Colloquium: Researching Copyists and Watermarks in the Digital Age: Between Academic Specialization and Catalog Enrichment Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 6-8 October 2014 The study of copyists and watermarks is deeply rooted in the German tradition of researching historical musical sources. Both branches of research are descended from the practice of making...
2 March 2015
RISM at the MLA Conference - live stream
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association will take place on February 25-28, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Sarah Adams of the US RISM office will be participating in a plenary session entitled “Digital Musicology: the role of music library collections.” She will report on new developments in RISM....
26 February 2015
Christmas greetings
The RISM Central Office wishes you and your family all the best for a festive holiday season and a happy New Year. We look forward to working with you again in 2015. Photo credit: NYPL Digital Gallery
19 December 2014
RISM and the Philippines
In October, the RISM director, Klaus Keil, was invited to speak at a conference and workshop called Preserving and Cataloguing Music Cultural Heritage in Asia/Laon-Laon Forum at the University of the Philippines College of Music/UP Center for Ethnomusicology. He had the opportunity to present RISM to an international audience. RISM...
1 December 2014
Music for Advent
On Sunday, the Christmas season will be in full swing: It’s the first Sunday of Advent. This time is peak season for church musicians. At no other time of the year are churches host to so many musical events and concerts. But how can you put together an interesting program?...
27 November 2014
RISM at the AIBM Conference
IAML Germany held its annual meeting in beautiful Nuremberg last month. Three members of the RISM Central Office were in attendance. Topics included: • Data transfers of RISM data • Social Media • RDA • Cultural Program RISM’s own Gottfried Heinz-Kronberger from RISM Germany in Munich gave a presentation about...
20 October 2014
IAML Poland Celebrates 50 Years
This week, our Polish colleagues are celebrating the 50th anniversary of IAML Poland with a conference in Warsaw on 23-24 September 2014. The topic of the conference is Music Information in the Future (Muzyczna Informacja Jutra). IAML president Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie has been invited to deliver a presentation about the...
22 September 2014
