Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Dr. Dre

Contents: Lolo (Intro) (:40) -- The watcher (3:28) -- Fuck you (3:25) -- Still D.R.E. (4:28) -- Big ego's (4:01) -- Xxplosive (3:35) -- What's the difference (4:04) -- Bar one (:51) -- Light speed (2:30) -- Forgot about Dre (3:54) -- The next episode (2:42) -- Let's get high (2:27) -- Bitch niggaz (4:14) -- The car bomb (1:01) -- Murder ink (2:28) -- Ed-ducation (1:32) -- Some L.A. niggaz (4:25) -- Pause...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Aftermath Entertainment / Interscope Records 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP Dr. D

Dr. Dre

Contents: The chronic (intro) -- Fuck wit dre da (and everybody's celebratin') -- Let me ride -- The day the niggaz took over -- Nuthin' but a "G" thang -- Deeez nuuuts -- Lil' ghetto boy -- A nigga witta gun -- Rat-tat-tat-tat -- The $20 sack pyramid -- Lyrical gangbang -- High powered -- The doctor's office -- Stranded on death row / (with Bushwick Bill) -- The roach (The chronic outro) -- Bitches...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2023

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DR

Dr. Dre

Contents: Intro -- Talk about it (featuring King Mez & Justus) -- Genocide (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay) -- It's all on me (featuring Justus & BJ the Chicago Kid) -- All in a day's work (featuring Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) -- Darkside/Gone (featuring King Mez, Marsha Ambrosius & Kendrick Lamar) -- Loose cannons (featuring Xzibit, Cold 187um & Sly Pyper) -- Issues...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Aftermath/Interscope Records 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COM

Summary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AU

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Contents: Plainchant, Benedicta es (2:24) -- Motet, Benedicta es / Josquin des Prés (6:55) -- Missa Benedicta es / Palestrina (41:15) -- Plainchant, Nigra sum (1:31) -- Motet, Nigra sum / Lhériter (5:07) -- Missa Nigra sum (35:20) ; Missa Papae Marcelli (36:49) ; Missa brevis (21:24) / Palestrina -- Madrigal, Nasce la gioja mia / Primavera (2:30) -- Missa Nasce la gioja mia / Palestrina (24:22) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gimell 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PIE

Piffaro

Contents: Adieu mes amours (1:26) ; Se j'ay perdu mon amy (1:56) ; Baisez-moy, ma doulce amye (2:12) / Josquin Desprez -- Musae Jovis / Nicolas Gombert (4:31) -- Bransles de village / anon. ; arr. Piffaro (5:00) -- Prélude ; Languir me fais / anon., Claudin de Sermisy (5:13) -- Allemandes / ed. Claude Gervaise ; arr. Piffaro (3:17) -- Pavane "Dellestarpe" ; Basse dance / ed. C. Gervaise, anon. (2:55) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL Piffa

Contents: Priere devant le repas, O sourverain Pasteur / Clemens non Papa -- En tour la feste Saint Martin / Decarella -- En languissant avoir secours j'attens / Pierre Certon -- C'est tout abus ; Trequedon daine / Anon. -- Hau, hau je boys / Claudin de Sermisy -- Je pers espoir / Benopit Appenzeller/Benedictus -- Aupres de vous : a 2 voix / Sermisy -- Secouez moy / Dambert -- Si vous n'avez madame /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN Pla

Summary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUS
Call number: DVD 708.4 MUS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 Museum

Contents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIR

Summary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIN

Game

Contents: Intro -- On me (featuring Kendrick Lamar) -- Step up (featuring Def Loaf & Sha Sha) -- Don't trip (featuring Ice Cube, Dr. Dre & will.i.am) -- Standing on Ferraris (featuring Diddy) -- Dollar and a dream (featuring AB Soul) -- Made in America (featuring Mvrcus Blvck) -- Hashtag (featuring Jelly Roll) -- Circles (featuring Q-Tip, Eric Bellinger & Sha Sha) -- Uncle skit -- Dedicated (featuring...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One U.S. 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GAM

Summary: Xavier, now thirty, reunites again with his old friends from his time in Barcelona when William marries a Russian dancer in Saint Petersburg. Although he is working as a writer, Xavier has been unable to publish his serious novel. He is ghostwriting celebrity memoirs and writing scripts for corny TV soap operas. His love life is a series of short-term encounters. When he loses his apartment,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUS

Summary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOH

Summary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOR

Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WID

Summary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMB

Summary: In the Paris of 1978, old formulas do not charm listeners anymore in a male-dominated music industry. Until Ana uses her synthetizers to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHO

Summary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP

Summary: Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li and Japanese emissary Lai Xi, both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAR