Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians
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Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians

  1. 295 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians

About this book

This book is based on a series of informative interviews with a number of music librarians working for different leading symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the world. In these interviews, librarians share with the readers what kind of professional skills, knowledge and personality that are required to supply music to the performers onstage, as well as information to these world-famous performing arts organizations.

Interviewees also discuss in details about their professional lives, i.e., including their personal stories and working relationships with various legendary conductors and star soloists, e.g., Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, James Levine, Donald Runnicles, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Sir Colin Davis, etc. Via the interviewees' stories, one can also get a glimpse of the different inside operations and the unique management styles behind the backstage of these internationally renowned performing arts organizations.

There are fourteen conversations including interviews with the Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera and the Orchestra Librarians at the San Francisco Ballet, the Berlin Philharmonic, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Ch01. Robert Sutherland, Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera
  6. Ch02. Robert Sutherland, When the Metropolitan Opera Goes on Tour
  7. Ch03. Matthew Naughtin, Music Librarian of the San Francisco Ballet
  8. Ch04. Ronald Whitaker, Former Orchestra Librarian of the Cleveland Orchestra
  9. Ch05. Alice Chatterjee-Rieckhoff, Orchestra Librarian of the Berlin Philharmonic
  10. Ch06. Benjamin Gould, Librarian of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
  11. Ch07. Jutta Lambrecht, Archive Directorin the Department of Documentation and Archives, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne
  12. Ch08. LaurƩ Campbell, My Forty-One Seasons with the San Francisco Opera
  13. Ch09. Carrie Weick, Orchestra Librarian at San Francisco Opera
  14. Ch10. Kazue Asawa McGregor, Kenneth Bonebrake, and Stephen Biagini, Librarians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
  15. Ch11. Katsu Watanabe, Akane Oki, and Yasushi Ishii, Librarians of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
  16. Ch12. Tony Rickard, Music Library Manager,Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  17. Ch13. Tony Rickard, Personal MusicLibrarian of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  18. Ch14. Julian de Ste. Croix, Librarian of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  19. Ch15. Rachel Daliot and Tal Rockman, Librarians of the Israel Philharmonic
  20. Ch16. Khor Chin-Yang, Librarian of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Library
  21. Ch17. Damien Kennedy, Music Library and Surtitles Manager at English National Opera
  22. Ch18. Sandra Pearson, Personal Music Librarian of Maestro AndrƩ Previn
  23. Ch19. Elena Xanthoudakis Discusses the Important Roles and Value of an Opera Librarian from the Viewpoint of a Professional Singer
  24. Ch20. Bringing It All Together
  25. Apkpendix. Robert Sutherland (Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera) Discussesthe In-Houseā€“Developed Metropolitan Opera FileMaker Database
  26. Index
  27. About the Author