Performance Library

Location

The Performance Library is located at 1260 Boylston Street alongside the large rehearsal room. 

Contact information

Angela Lickiss, Performance Librarian
(617) 266-2117 
perflib@bostonconservatory.edu

Hours

The open hours for the performance library vary by week. The hours are posted each week in several locations at 8 The Fenway and in 1260 Boylston. The Performance Library is closed during the summer.

Collection Description

The performance library contains the music used by the various choral groups, orchestra, wind ensemble, brass ensemble, and other large chamber ensembles of The Boston Conservatory.

Collection Usage Policies

The Performance Librarian and her assistants are responsible for the distribution and collection of all music.  Music will normally be available two weeks prior to the first rehearsal and can be picked up in the library space at 1260 Boylston Street.  Library hours vary but are clearly posted on the large ensemble board at the beginning of the week.  You must pick up your own music before the first rehearsal.  Students will not be allowed to pick up music for another student. At the end of the final concert, please place your music in the box provided off-stage.  Do NOT leave your music on the music stand.  String players who have an extra set of parts must return them at the concert as well.

For those students who do not return their music at the final concert, music must be returned to the library within three days after each performance. 

• Beginning on the fourth day, there will be a $1 fine for each day an item is overdue with a maximum fine of $15.
• Additionally, you will receive notification that a replacement charge of $50 per piece has also been added to your tuition bill.  If you return the material by the last day of classes for that semester, this charge will be reversed on TBC owned materials only, but not on rental materials. The $15 overdue fine will be charged in either event, and cannot be removed.

Since all our parts are for the exclusive use of The Boston Conservatory ensembles, our collection is non-circulating. We cannot lend to any outside groups.

Students, alumni, faculty and staff  in need of orchestral practice parts can email requests for copies at perflib@bostonconservatory.edu during the academic year. The request must be sent to the Performance Librarian, in email, requesting the specific practice parts (example:  Don Juan, violin 1, full part).  Copy requests take up to one week and cannot be rushed.  Copies are $0.05/page and need to be paid in cash, in exact change, once the copies are complete.  If a large number of copies are requested, the photocopies may take longer than one week to prepare.

In cases of bad page turns in your individual part, you are personally responsible for alleviating the situation by making a photocopy. The librarian is not responsible for this particular issue.  Please be sure to incorporate this aspect of planning into your preparation, and to have a solution for your page turn problem in place before the first rehearsal.  Furthermore, we cannot copy parts for ensembles to play from in rehearsals.