another weekend at the public library

Another big haul from the weekend trip to the public library after a shower that I hope portends Spring instead of typifying the unpredictability of Atlanta weather. Here goes. (The books have links to their entries on Amazon.com, the CDs have links to entries in the All Music Guide, while the movies link to the Internet Movie Database)

• CDs
  
  
  
  • Queen of the Blue/Memphis Minnie: Eighteen stellar selections recorded between 1929 and 1946 that clearly show what a potent musical force this woman truly was...{AMG entry}
  
  
  • Norway Sang: A collection of Norwegian songs
  
  
  • Live at Monterey/Ravi Shankar
  
  
  • Sitar music from India
  
  
  • African Rhythms & Instruments, Vol 2
  
  
  • Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Cantata/Lieutenant Kije Suite | André Previn/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: AMG did not have an entry for it, so I have linked to the page on Prokofiev.org devoted to this album
  
  
  • Dvorák: Symphony No. 7/Overture, My Home | André Previn/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: TELARC CD-80173: Couldn't find any catalog entry for this one
  
  
  • Devotional and Love Songs/Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party
  
  
  
  


• Books
  
  
  
  • Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
  
  
  • Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King
  
  
  
  


• Movies




• Irma La Douce (VHS): Shammi Kapoor's directorial debut in 1974 titled Manoranjan was also based on the same French play as this Billy Wilder classic


• A Fish Called Wanda (VHS)


• The Avengers 1963 DVD Set 1: Volume I: Here's the Amazon entry: Episodes are The Undertakers, Man with Two Shadows, The Nutshell


• The Avengers 1963 DVD Set 2 Volume 3: The Amazon entry for a change. Episodes are: Second Sight, The Medicine Men, The Grandeur that was Rome

Did you know that the track Russians on Sting's debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles is based on a theme by Prokofiev? Neither/So did I.
Incidentally, the Indiana University School of Music maintains a list of pointers to web resources on different composers.