Worcester Music Library

Orders have started coming in from choirs ... hurrah! We cannot just wander in and out of the building housing most of the music, so would appreciate a bit of notice of any new orders.

There are many hundreds of books still in limbo because of the pandemic restrictions on travel and meetings and we will need to manually confirm that the books requested are actually available. Fortunately all the current orders are.

I have included Belshazzar just in case anyone from Three Choirs is watching ...

Let's be positive! Many musical organisations will be planning to get back together for rehearsal for the autumn term, and there will be such a release of emotion when that happens.

The Worcester Music Library is not 'open' yet but we can at least take orders from Choirs, Orchestral Groups, schools and festivals for later in the year. We would anticipate a swell in demand for certain pieces and so would recommend you get in touch as soon as you know your programmes so that we can earmark the parts for you.

The picture below shows the Finzi Music Library, which is now held at the Elgar School of Music.

Hello everyone. We are closing the music library until after Easter. All of the choirs and orchestras that were planning on collecting from us over the next three have cancelled their concerts anway, so no-one should be affected.

If you have managed to actually stage a concert and wish to return the music, please can you hang on to it for now while we assess the situation.

We have convinced ourselves that things will have improved by the autumn term, so please do make enquiries about possible borrowing to [email protected] and your message will be picked up.

Thanks for reading, stay well. What a foul year this has been so far.

There is now a page on the Severn Arts website which advertises the music library, which is now settled in their building at Malvern Gate: https://www.severnarts.org.uk/worcester-music-library/

It contains links to our orchestral and choral catalogues which give an overview of what we have (though not all the detail about arrangements, editions etc).

There is also an indication of our new charges, which come into force in January 2020. We have had to increase these because our rent is going to increase. The charges have not changed for over ten years. Our home page on the Elgar School website is also being changed to reflect this.

Worcester Music Library - Severn Arts