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The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, held by the University of Michigan 's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, consists of over 2,500 historical and contemporary musical instruments from around the world. [1] The basis of the Collection is a gift made to the university by pharmaceutical businessman Frederick ...
The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. It is located on the fourth floor of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University–Newark in Newark, New Jersey. The archival collection contains more than 100,000 sound recordings on CDs, LPs ...
Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014. [1]Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (now named Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Carnegie Mellon University.
e. Advanced Placement (AP) World History: Modern (also known as AP World History, AP World, APWH, or WHAP) is a college-level course and examination offered to high school students in the United States through the College Board 's Advanced Placement program. AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding ...
Stearns played drums in his teens, and attended Harvard University, where, in 1931, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also attended Harvard Law School from 1932 to 1934, but did not graduate. He went on to study medieval English at Yale University, where, in 1942, he earned a PhD. He served a series of academic appointments on the English ...
William P. Malm. William Malm (born March 6, 1928) is an American musicologist known for his studies of Japanese traditional music. As a composer, teacher, and scholar of Japanese music, Malm shaped the study of ethnomusicology in the United States. Malm authored the first major scholarly study in English of the history and instruments of ...
Foellinger Auditorium. The Foellinger Auditorium, located at 709 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a concert hall and the university's largest lecture hall. It is the southernmost building on the main quad.
The Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (English: "Music Building on the IJ") is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. The building was designed by Danish architects 3XN.