Librarians: In their own words

We had a principal wind player who was known for losing parts to things. Over the years entire folders would go missing, and he was very good about paying for rental parts as well as replacement materials for our own sets. About three months after his retirement, another principal wind player was in the dressing room and reached up to the top of his locker to put something up there for a moment. Imagine his surprise when he went to retrieve it, and down came not one, not two, but three folders, complete with music – the “missing” ones!!

And the fiddle player who insisted that the library had misplaced his folder; after all, he would never do such a thing. A couple of weeks later we received a phone message (left at about 2 in the morning) of a very contrite violinist who had “discovered” the folder at the bottom of his son’s toy box.

Our principal percussionist once left his music in the back of a cab, and he and I spent the night in the library, photocopying scores and then doing a cut and paste of all the parts… I do believe those pops folks now have two sets of all their materials.