The Harry Ransom Center is world renowned for its photography archives and their holdings are continuing to grow. From Feb. 9 until May 29, 2016 they will be celebrating almost 200 new acquisitions. Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions traces progressions in the art from the post-war period through to the contemporary era.
Enjoy their time-lapse installation video here:
Opening around the country is a documentary on Tower Records. For those of you that remember the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s, you will recall how Tower Records had hundreds of stores across the nation, in many other countries and was the place to go for videos, new LPs, singles, posters, music magazines and t-shirts.
For teenagers it was one of the few places that would hire you if you were a long-haired hippy, dressed punk, goth, or hip-hop. Tower saw you as a genre expert and if you worked hard, were detail-oriented and knew your stuff you could work up to becoming a music buyer and/or manager. If you moved around, you could transfer easily to a Tower in your new town or get hired based on your experience.
It was a great gig. Didn’t pay a lot, but you would get promo CDs, tickets to concerts, get to listen to music on your shift and as long as you got your work done you could act as goofy as you wanted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBfnQChA9XM
It was one of my favorite places to work as a late teen and early 20’s – I worked at the stores in Berkeley, Las Vegas and Austin, TX. I kept trying to get a transfer to the Japan store but managers in Berkeley and Vegas kept sitting on my application. My life would have been very different. Le sigh.
They are also raising money for Sacramento to have a museum, archive and perhaps even a traveling exhibit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sj1J0cT5pc
It’s playing in Austin at the Regal Arbor (November 6th)
Release dates elsewhere can be found here:
Discovered in the archives of Latin America was a treasure trove of Colonial works of art, sacred music for the feasts and holidays of the Catholic Church. After Mexico defeated Spain these Colonial masterpieces from the 17th and 18th century were neglected for over a century but were rediscovered in the 1940’s.
The Austin Baroque Orchestra is holding their forth annual celebration of these musical archives, presenting works from three cathedrals from different regions, Oaxaca, the Hill Country of Northwestern Mexico and Mexico city. From Oaxaca cathedral you’ll hear the works of Manuel de Sumaya, known as the “Mexican Handel.” From Durango Cathedral in Mexico’s hill country you’ll enjoy Santiago Billoni, New Spain’s Italian-born maestro. From Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral you’ll encounter the pieces by Ignacio Jerúsalem, Mateo Tollis de la Rocca, and Antonio Juanas.
A sample from last year’s selection of the works of Juan de Araujo can be listened to here.
Find out more about these concerts here and here.
Saturday, November 14, 2015 – 8:00PM
First Presbyterian Church of Austin
8001 Mesa Drive · Austin, TX 78731
Sunday, November 15, 2015 – 4:00PM
Mission Concepción
807 Mission Road · San Antonio, TX 78210
Please take the time to enjoy one of the Harry Ransom Centers most recent acquisitions, the Archive of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The HRC has issued a wonderful video giving an overview of this famous writer and his cultural contribution.
The director helps to explain the value of the Harry Ransom Center to our community, the university and the humanities field at large. The Latin American studies director gives context to the weight of this collection. One of its professors explains how the archive will be used by those in academia. The archivist discusses the collection and how the materials are being conserved and made available.
One cannot mention the title source of the Strange Pilgrims exhibit without reminding one’s readers that the Harry Ransom Center recently acquired the archives of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“More than 75 boxes of documents constitute the archive of the Colombian-born author, journalist, screenwriter and key figure in Latin American history and politics. Researchers will have access to manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, correspondence, 43 photograph albums, 22 scrapbooks, research material, notebooks, newspaper clippings, screenplays and ephemera.”
Wed. Oct. 27 there will be a webcast of acclaimed author Salmon Rushdie’s keynote speech for the symposium Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy.