Worcester Music Library

Worcester Music Library has now moved into the Elgar School of Music. It has proved to be quite a challenge, but we are almost done - here is some of the orchestral and chamber music (A-M) in the Lumby Room at the school, which we have set up during half-term.

We'd like to use this platform to say thanks to Severn Arts for hosting us while the library was homeless since pre-COVID, and also Worcester Theatres for providing a room in Huntingdon Hall to temporarily accommodate our overflow while we make space for it.

We are still in the process of trimming down some of the (over-subscribed) pieces in our collection. I'm delighted to say that we found a good home for Carmina Burana, so if anyone would like to provide the same for any of these three pieces we would be very pleased to hear from you:

Kodaly MISSA BREVIS (70 copies)
Puccini MESSA DI GLORIA (60 copies)
Williamson MASS OF CHRIST THE KING (50 copies)

Peter

The music library is gradually emigrating from Malvern Gate. Just about all of the choral music, apart from some compilation volumes, is now housed at the Elgar School of Music.

Now the school doesn't have enough space to house everything, so we have decided to cull some pieces. So where we have, say, 200+ copies of a piece we will try to run them down to, say, 120.

One example is Carmina Burana. We have 100 spare copies - all in good condition. If there is a choir or school which would like to have some or all of them, and is prepared to collect them, then please let us know.

One box of the missing Faure Requiems has been found, cowering beneath a pile of instruments in a usic school store-room. Hurrah!