LARGE MUSIC LIBRARY
Broadcasting Corporation
Inevitably, as broadcasting expands and develops, more and more music oi every conceivable kind is played and sung before the microphone, and the activities of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s various choral and orchestral combinations entail an incessant supply of manuscripts. The corporation’s music library, established in December, 1922, its to-day probably the largest working, as distinct from reference, musical library in the world. Figures are often meaningless in such a connection, but it is hard not to be impressed by the sight of 20,000 musical titles stacked away neatly in the steel shelves of Broadcasting House. One title may represent anything from a simple ballad for soprano and piano to a symphony in four movements scored for 120 players and taking an hour to perform. Some 5000 of the works are in duplicate and a further 1500 in triplicate, for the library serve* not only London’s needs, but also those of the regional centres. The library boasts 160,000 vocal scores alone, covering the entire field from grand opera to musical comedy.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 10
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176LARGE MUSIC LIBRARY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 10
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