UH Music Library

Heads up Coogs! The Music Library will close be open from 8 AM to 1 PM today for the staff to attend the MD Anderson Library 75th Anniversary Libraries Employee Celebration.

We will resume our normal hours, 8 AM to 5 PM, on Monday June 15.

Heads up, Coogs and visitors!📣UH Libraries service points (including MD Anderson Library, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library, the Music Library, the Health Sciences Library, and the Medical Library) will have special operating hours tomorrow, June 12, during and after the MD Anderson Library 75th Anniversary Libraries Employee Celebration. Check open hours at https://uh.libcal.com/hours/

Note that the MD Anderson Library building will remain open and operating under regular hours on June 12. UH Libraries service points will resume regular operating hours on Saturday, June 13.

"When the BBC used Puccini’s aria for their Italia 90 coverage — and the Three Tenors performed it at their debut in Rome — it became a global anthem."

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The 83-year-old composer from Tamil Nadu has scored more than 1,000 films in nine languages, a record unmatched in Indian cinema."

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James Blood Ulmer, avant-garde electric guitarist and singer, has died at 86 The fearless free-funk and jazz artist, a student of Ornette Coleman's Harmolodics concept, followed his unorthodox path to a singular five-decade career.

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It’s a folk music mecca for singer-songwriters and the people who love hearing them.

After last year’s devastating Hill Country floods, many festivalgoers say gathering here feels more meaningful than ever."

Getting up close and personal with the Kerrville Folk Festival This is the 54th year of the Kerrville Folk Festival. TPR's Jack Morgan brings us the sights and sounds and introduces us to several "Kerrheads."

"Fleming, who is now a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer best known for gracing the stages of some of the world's most prominent opera houses, is returning to those roots in a new album with banjo player Béla Fleck.

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"He performed on "Beauty and the Beast" with Céline Dion and on “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle."

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