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Find Yourself a Melody: November 2007
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Tuesday, November 13, 2007. It's been over a year since I posted last, hasn't it? Yet the Web is proving a more archival medium. Than we suspected: reader X24. Commented just a few weeks ago, with a reasonable question:. How easy is it for a normal, everyday member of the workaday public to come in to peruse or make copies? Visit the Library,. Use the Library's music, or. Best of all) volunteer at the Library? Music for the Nation: A...
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Find Yourself a Melody: Yaaka Hula Hicky Dula
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Monday, August 28, 2006. Yaaka Hula Hicky Dula. The Library volunteers have been gradually excavating the newest batch of donated sheet music. My role has been mainly to exclaim about the music's cover art: coming from the collection of an enthusiastic amateur musician, the sheet music is bound with appealing, colorful illustrations. Or serene ladies in evening gowns. I've Gone Native Now, or The Malahini Hula. Near the bottom of one...
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Find Yourself a Melody: September 2006
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Monday, September 25, 2006. Songs of Other Days. Hear this song on a 1914 cylinder recording. We're still handling the recent donations. Some of these are the 1970's piano albums which don't thrill me as much, but it seems that stratum is well-excavated, and more of the new items in the Library database are of earlier vintage. But who suspected that the Library has the sheet music for "Chopsticks? Yes, that's right: " Chopsticks.
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Find Yourself a Melody: Sing, Katie (but Leave The Piano Alone)
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Thursday, November 09, 2006. Sing, Katie (but Leave The Piano Alone). Thousands of pages of music, and I can't read a note. Nope, I'm just not a musician, despite my earnest middle school attempts to play the clarinet. Now that I've ceased contributing to noise pollution. What appeal could a music library hold for the likes of me? Plenty, really; probably even more than if I were just seeking the trombone part for " Caravan. What an ...
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Find Yourself a Melody: Istanbul Was Once Constantinople
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Monday, June 12, 2006. Istanbul Was Once Constantinople. I know I'm not alone in my yearning for a fully searchable catalogue for the Library. At present we have most of the titles captured; much of the other data about the sheet music, such as composer or lyricist names, are unrecorded or incorrect. Will nobody claim to have composed the. Frick and Frack 1947 Encore. Trying to decide what to call the city known variously as. Bring B...
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Find Yourself a Melody: My Funny Valentine
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Thursday, July 13, 2006. The sheet music of yesterday! Faded, dog-eared, and torn, it is an astonishing heap of mementos that seem as lost in the recesses of time and as fruitless to scan as someone else's old valentines. Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis,. They All Played Ragtime. Over the greatness of such space. Steps must be gentle. Hart Crane, "My Grandmother's Love Letters". Hit" was a "big success" in my great-grandmother's day.
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Find Yourself a Melody: Time in a Bottle
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Monday, September 04, 2006. Time in a Bottle. As I do with so many donations to the Library, I grabbed a stack of new acquisitions and sat at a PC, entering the new cataloguing information into the Library's database. This is a dull task in most other situations, but I like doing it at the Library: I get to handle the music, look at who wrote it, where and when it was published, even read the lyrics. Among the new donations (the trea...
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Find Yourself a Melody: Bring Back That Old-Fashioned Waltz
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Sunday, May 21, 2006. Bring Back That Old-Fashioned Waltz. I spend Tuesdays underground. Regardless of how fine the weather is (and this spring it's been rainy too often), on Tuesdays I descend a narrow, beige-painted stairway which looks like it belongs in a submarine, to a basement room efficiently if bleakly lit by fluorescent bulbs. This is the Paramount Theatre Music Library, in Oakland, California. Anne Yambor sorting music.
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Find Yourself a Melody: 'Neath the Oaks
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Tuesday, August 15, 2006. What's here besides failed urban renewal projects and freeways? Well, there's the Paramount Theatre, for one. To borrow a relevant title, it has some of the best remaining seats. As one of the last of a dozen or so movie palaces. That once enlivened downtown Oakland. The main lobby of the Paramount Theatre. Ever want to see a historic building without cringing at the sight of insensitive remodeling? Everybod...
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Find Yourself a Melody: Up on the Housetop
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Find Yourself a Melody. Tales from the Paramount Theatre Music Library. Sunday, July 02, 2006. Up on the Housetop. A more interesting attic than most. Mr Rudolph sewed these sturdy binders for his music collection. Elsewhere in the room are cardboard boxes and file cabinets full of barely investigated treasures. I reached into one box and retrieved a bunch of signed publicity photos of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson: a fan club's overstock? What will we find in the other boxes? Istanbul Was Once Constantinople.
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