Klezmer Music is at its heart party music, and is often played at weddings and other festive events.
Spooky Tunes for Halloween – Free on Hoopla!
Planning a haunted happening for Halloween and need a seriously spooky soundtrack? Look no further than the BPL’s Hoopla app!
Music and Mental Health
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast," wrote William Congreve in his 1697 play, "The Mourning Bride." It has been long known that music can have the power of soothing us when we are sad, anxious, angry, or otherwise upset. We seem to be instinctively drawn to particular music depending on our moods. The…
Victoria Woodhull: Activist, Free-Thinker, Presidential Candidate
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an ardent campaigner for women’s rights, an advocate for sexual freedom, and the first woman to run for president of the United States. Born Victoria Claflin in Homer, Ohio in 1838, she received very little formal education. At the age of fifteen, she married Dr. Canning Woodhull and had two children…
Yom Kippur: Turning Towards the Good
For fans of the movie “The Jazz Singer,” the haunting strains of “Kol Nidre” are indelibly linked to an emotional climax of the movie. The filmmakers could not possibly have made a more evocative and emotional choice of music. For Jews across the world, the plaintive melody of Kol Nidre marks the beginning of 26…
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Lovelace was born in 1815 in England to Lord and Lady Byron. Most historians consider Lovelace the first computer programmer. In the 1840s, Charles Babbage created a design for an Analytical Engine that could do complex math. Ada Lovelace wrote a series of…
Queer Fiction Blog: October 2019
Welcome to the October edition of our Queer Fiction Blog. This month we welcome our newest reviewer, Allison, to our blog! We have a lot in store for you this month, including a list of some of Allison's favorite titles, a Historical Fantasy novel with a folklore twist, and a science fiction novel that harkens…
What’s That Sound? It’s a Theremin!
You're watching an old scary movie late at night and your hear a strange sound in the movie's soundtrack. How to describe it? Eerie, ethereal, down right spooky. It has almost a vocal quality. You think you may have heard it before, because it reminds you of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations". What in the…
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