It is a full experience for each musician and equally so for the orchestra librarian. Planning for a season’s repertoire begins in the fall when a current season is underway, and it is finalized in ...

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When the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs at Symphony Hall, its members dress accordingly: white shirts, black jackets, bow ties. What about the BSO’s librarians? They don’t play instruments with ...

When an orchestra takes the stage, all eyes, and ears, are on the music. But before the musicians can play, someone has to make sure they have the sheet music to play from. The orchestra’s librarians ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For Nicole Jordan, even the chance to be named the Philadelphia Orchestra's new principal librarian was like a dream come true. The native Philadelphian interned with the ...

As a music librarian for the N.C. Symphony, Deborah Nelson, 67, works a job most people have never heard of. But you will see her occasionally; she’s the one who brings the music and, often, the baton ...

Shortly before each Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert is set to begin, someone discreetly walks onstage to place a score on the conductor’s music stand, then returns to retrieve it when that first ...