Earlier this summer, many of you no doubt saw the article by Noah Remnick “With Shop’s Closing, Little Ukraine Grows Smaller,” in the NYT of June 6. The article concerned the closing of Surma Book & Music Company. Founded by Ukrainian immigrant Myron Surmach some 98 years ago, the shop had occupied the East 7th […]
Month: September 2016
Supplemental Purchase Expands Russian Imperial & Early Soviet Sheet Music Collection
One of the most visually exciting additions to Columbia’s holdings was the purchase of ninety-five additional examples of late Imperial and early Soviet sheet music. Columbia’s holdings, catalogued collectively at https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10290450 are quite likely the largest in any North American collection from this era, now including some 268 titles. […]