Scenes from Behind the Wall: Images of East Germany, 1989-1990

December 11, 2013
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In late December 1989 two young men, Page Chichester and Helmut Brinkmann, were drinking and watching a soccer match on television in the city of Bonn in what was then called West Germany.  Brinkmann suddenly suggested that they tour East Germany, beginning the next day.  The two stayed up all night planning their hastily-conceived trip.  […]

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Dahmen musical manuscript at Mason!

December 2, 2013
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Steven K. Gerber, Music/Theater Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Music, was recently published in NOTES, the Journal of the Music Library Association (v70 n2 p259). In it he explains the significance of a recently acquired and digitized music score. Here is the entry! “George Mason University Libraries has acquired and digitized the only extant holograph […]

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