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In November 2017, the Digital Scholarship Group at Boston College Libraries launched the Morales Mass Book (https://moralesmassbook.bc.edu/), an open-access companion site to the First Book of Masses by Cristóbal de Morales (ca. 1550–1553), a Spanish composer at the Papal Chapel in Rome. This site explores the Missarum liber primus (Lyon: Moderne, 1546) focusing on the composer, the printer, and the processes that informed the composition of four of Morales's polyphonic Masses. In addition, video and audio recordings invite us into the world of Morales's superb music.

The physical 1546 edition of the Missarum liber primus, a pirated copy, was acquired by the John J. Burns Library in 2011. This project is a partnership of the Digital Scholarship Group at Boston College Libraries and the Music Department in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

IAML Greece is organising its second annual conference which will be held at the Athens Conservatoire, one of the most historic music institutions in Greece established in 1871. The conference will take place 27 and 28 of April 2018 and we will have the pleasure and honor to have Stanisław Hrabia, IAML's president, giving the keynote speech. The conference will be under the auspices of the Athens 2018–World Book Capital and it will be supported by the Polish Embassy in Greece.

The University of Pennsylvania's Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Kislak Center for Special Collections are happy to announce receipt of a CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant that will make available papers and recordings from the Marian Anderson archive. The Marian Anderson Papers ranks among the most important archival collections in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, where patrons are able to view the vast majority of documents. Recognized as one of the twentieth century's greatest musical performers, Anderson (1897–1993), an African American, was born in Philadelphia, where she is revered and memorialised. Under the grant we will digitise primary sources in this collection that span her entire career as an opera singer and social justice advocate. They include private recordings, programs, notebooks, diaries, and scrapbooks that shed light on her rich legacy as a musician and a voice for social justice. The collection of recital programs will give researchers a more accurate picture of her repertory and how it evolved throughout her career and the recordings of interviews with Harry Taubman will allow researchers to compare her autobiography, My Lord, What a Morning, to its source material. These materials will also enable researchers to explore the geographical extent of her musical career; gain a deeper understanding of the blind prejudice she endured; and marvel at her courage, reception, and fame as she emerged as an artist on the world stage. Material will be made available via the collection finding aid (http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/ead/upenn_rbml_MsColl200) and OPenn, a repository for digitised cultural heritage material. The Digitizing Hidden Collections program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (https://www.clir.org/) is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://mellon.org/). For further information: https://pennlibnews.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/three-clir-grants-allow-the-penn-libraries-to-digitize-major-collections-at-penn-and-beyond/.

Liza Vick

University of Pennsylvania

Moravians in North America will host the Third International Brass Festival of the Worldwide Moravian Unity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 19–22 July 2018, a long weekend of music and fellowship that connects brass instrument players through musical collaboration, builds friendships and community. The week culminates with a concert/ service by the massed brass choir on Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 4:00pm in Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University; it is free and open to the public and we hope you will join us. Audiences will experience a wide range of repertoire, from sacred chorales to works for double brass choir with organ.

In 2007, Moravian musicians in South Africa, Germany, and America organised the first Festival specifically for brass instrumentalists. It is an open festival where all ages learn, rehearse, and play together during the event, forming an enormous massed brass ensemble. Church membership is not required...