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LIBRARY NEWSLETTER WINTER 2002-CD collection, Jerome Sculpture
PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL

This fall a cataloging milesone was reached when over 5,000 items of the classical music CD's (sets and individual titles) were entered into the libray on-line database catalog. The records represents about 12,000 actual CD's and this group is arranged by individual composer. They begin with Carl Fredrick Abel and end with Alexander Zemlinsky.There are more than 450 CDs of Johnann Sebastian Bach, 400 of Beethoven, 160 of Handel and 71 of Wagner. This completes catlaoging of about two-thirds of the collection which is a donation from John Walsh, class of 1950. The next stage is to catalog works when multiple composers represented. These will be arranged by performer, type of instrument being played, or theme of music represented on the disks, such as Baroque, Military or Sacred Music.

The retired, former Abbey librarian, Robin Scanlan,wife of alumnus Joe, class of 1946, now has been faithfully working part-time to complete this project.

During the summer and early fall a repair was made to the bronze guilt sculpture which resides on the library table in the Art Seminar room. The piece, "Flight into Eqypt" by Jean-Leon Jerome was done in 1897.

Gerald Ackerman in his Catalogue Raisonne of the artist desribes it as "Mary, dressed like a Bedouin woman, sits sidesaddle on a donkey, holding the swaddled Christ Child to her breast".  See photgraph
below.