Theatre Arts

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

The Naxos Music Library has 87,000 cd tracks for online listening, including the complete Naxos classical, jazz, world-music and historical releases, plus the complete Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues.

Naxos Music Library Jazz offers streaming music of both jazz legends and contemporary jazz, including over 320 independent labels such as ARC, Berlin Classics, Marco Polo, Nimbus, and others. The database includes over 4000 CDs, with new selected titles from leading independent labels added each month.

An electronic resource of recordings, including CD audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other labels. QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.

This online music repository from the Library of Congress features streaming versions of recordings made between 1901 and 1925 from Victor Talking Machine Company.