The Web Team is pleased to announce the release of the new IAML website! This page has a more intuitive organization and a more welcoming layout. The new website has been designed to function through both desktop and mobile (phone/tablet) browsers. We hope that it is easier for both IAML members and for people interested in IAML to find information on the organization.

(Text by Pauline Sjöberg, Gothenburg University Library)

Herbert Blomstedt, one of the world’s pre-eminent conductors, has donated his collection to Gothenburg University Library. The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday 21 May. Herbert Blomstedt talks about his lifelong commitment, collecting books, entitled Lying head to toe with Shakespeare.

The Herbert Blomstedt Collection is substantial, filling around 500 metres of shelf space. It consists of music literature, sheet music, manuscripts and facsimile editions of old manuscripts as well as works of fiction.

We would like to share the good news that the index of record catalogues published until 1959 and located in several Spanish institutions is already available on the website of AEDOM – the Spanish branch of IAML: Matriz. http://www.aedom.org/matriz

A new issue of CAML Review is now available for viewing or downloading via the journal site: http://caml.journals.yorku.ca. Please see the contents of the issue listed below.

The editors of CAML Review invite submissions in the form of articles, reviews, and reports pertaining to music in Canada, music librarianship, and music-related topics of current interest. The deadline for the next issue is July 15, 2015.

April’s object of the month is a copy of Paul Hindemith’s Wir Bauen eine Stadt (1930), songs composed for children and given its world premiere in Glasgow in November 1930. Our archive contains the score used by pianist and composer Erik Chisholm (a former student of the Conservatoire) who accompanied the Orpheus Junior Choir (now the Phoenix Choir). The composer himself performed a number of sonatas with Chisholm earlier in the evening; his dedication in the score reads: ‘with hearty thanks for the beautiful introduction to Glasgow’ – Paul Hindemith Nov. 30 [1930].