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Here are some musician anniversaries and music days through June 2015.
Mozart: New documents (link is external) is a collaborative project for the digital publication of new Mozart documents discovered since 1997, the date of the second supplement (the Neue Folge) to Otto Erich Deutsch (link is external)’s Mozart: Die Dokumente seines Lebens (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1961). This website is intended as an open working draft, and the editors welcome contributions and feedback from readers, who will receive explicit credit and acknowledgment...
EBLIDA condemns yesterday’s gun attack at French weekly satirical newspaper Charlie-Hebdo in Paris and reiterates the importance of freedom of expression and freedom of access to information as core to the functioning of a democratic society.
You may have seen the recent announcements in the Press concerning severe cuts at the new Library of Birmingham (link is external). (See list of links below)
About 100 of the Library’s 188 staff will go as opening hours are cut from 73 to 40 hours per week and other services for the public are stopped.
The Director of the Library has resigned, and if these proposed changes go ahead, business, learning, music and archive services will cease - there will no longer be a Music Library in Birmingham, run by specialist staff with relevant subject knowledge...
