Conversations with the world's leading orchestra and opera librarians
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Conversations with the world's leading orchestra and opera librarians
Rowman & Littlefield, c2016
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Maestro Fabio Luisi
Preface
Chapter 1: Robert Sutherland, Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera
Chapter 2: Robert Sutherland, When the Metropolitan Opera Goes on Tour
Chapter 3:Matthew Naughtin, Music Librarian of the San Francisco Ballet
Chapter 4:Ronald Whitaker, Former Orchestra Librarian of The Cleveland Orchestra
Chapter 5:Alice Chatterjee-Rieckhoff, Orchestra Librarian of the Berlin Philharmonic
Chapter 6:Benjamin Gould, Librarian of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra
Chapter 7:Jutta Lambrecht, Archive Director of the Department of Documentation and Archives, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Cologne
Chapter 8:Laure Campbell, My Forty-One Seasons with the San Francisco Opera
Chapter 9:Carrie Weick, Orchestra Librarian at the San Francisco Opera
Chapter 10:Kazue Asawa McGregor, Kenneth Bonebrake and Stephen Biagini, Librarians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Chapter 11:Katsu Watanabe, Akane Oki, and Yasushi Ishii, Librarians of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Chapter 12:Tony Rickard, Music Library Manager at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chapter 13:Tony Rickard, Personal Music Librarian of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Chapter 14:Julian de Ste. Croix, Librarian of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Chapter 15:Rachel Daliot and Tal Rockman, Librarians of the Israel Philharmonic
Chapter 16: Khor Chin-Yang, Librarian of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Librarian
Chapter 17:Damien Kennedy, Music Library and Surtitles Manager at English National Opera
Chapter 18:Sandra Pearson, Personal Music Librarian of Maestro Andre Previn
Chapter 19:Elena Xanthoudakis Discusses the Important Roles and Value of an Opera Librarian from the Viewpoint of a Professional Singer
Chapter 20: Bringing It All Together
Appendix I: Robert Sutherland (Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera) Discusses the In-house Developed Metropolitan Opera FileMaker Database
Index
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