Exhibits

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. This is a time to acknowledge and appreciate the many Asian communities that exist around the world. At the Music Library, we are specifically dedicating our monthly display to Asian composers and musicians, and… read more

Earth Day is an event dedicated to environmental protection. It has been running since 1970 and is celebrated on April 22.  

In recognition of this, we are highlighting music related to ecomusicology, environmental activism, and… read more

March 8th is International Women’s Day. The United Nations theme this year is "Invest in women: Accelerate progress." In honour of this, we are highlighting women-identifying composers from around the world whose work can be found in our catalogue, as… read more

February is Black History Month, which is a time to honour the lives of Black people. In the Music Library, we are highlighting the achievements of Black musicians, composers, and movements in our display this month. We encourage you to come in and… read more

You may have noticed that we have a new display up in the Music Library. We are so excited to feature some of the queer stories we have in our collection – including queer musicians, queer composers, and queer movements.  

Queer is a term… read more

The 2023 Winter/Summer exhibit at the University of Toronto Music Library celebrates the esteemed Canadian composer, writer, educator, pianist, broadcaster, and administrator John Beckwith (1927-2022). To view the exhibit in its entirety, start with… read more

Large, beautiful mountains cradle the city of Kermanshah, Iran. The weather is moderate: warm days and cool nights make for pleasant weather year-round. Frequently sunny, occasionally rainy, and rarely snowy. In the countryside, you might hear… read more

To quote Dean Ellie Hisama, “music theory as a field is often regarded as neutral […] and exempt from discussions of issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, economics, politics, and so forth” (Hisama 2018, 253). Hisama… read more

As you make your way back to the Music Library you may have noticed that things look a little bit different in the Music Library. We are currently shifting items around as part of an ongoing process to make our collections more physically accessible.… read more

In “Moving in the Circle: Indigenous Solidarity for Canadian Libraries” (2017), Julie Blair and Desmond Wong state that “Indigenous histories have been largely omitted and separated from library collections. Their article is one of many calls for post-… read more