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  • Hi, I'm Sarah Griffin, assistant principal librarian of the New York Philharmonic.

  • Main job responsibility is having the right piece of music in the right place at the right time.

  • It's kind of an old orchestra.

  • Librarians Creed Get Boeing's from the concert master, and we transfer those into the parts that the musicians perform.

  • We make any corrections that need to go into the music and then make it available to the players.

  • Were kind of like the circus performers who have all the sticks with the plates spinning.

  • That's sort of what we d'oh many, many jobs going simultaneously.

  • And if we do our job well, then you'll never know we're around.

  • There is no formal training for librarians.

  • This is kind of generally the path how it goes.

  • You start working in a library and then you realize you love working in a library.

  • I was trained as a no voice.

  • I started playing the oboe in the sixth grade, and I had my heart set on doing that as a career.

  • I got my doctorate, an Opel performance, and I was taking open auditions and it's what I was going to do, and I had applied for a job at a orchestra in Kansas City.

  • But while I was applying for the librarian, I caught her attention somehow and she needed help in the library and asked me if I could step in in Rome and just help her do some things.

  • You're actually learning to be a library in the whole time you're being trained as a novelist, and many, many librarians have that same story.

  • I'm making a new concert master part for the Brahms German Requiem.

  • Any fan of the Phil knows we have a new concert master now, and to preserve Glenn's markings, we save his part and we make Frank a new one.

  • So right now I'm transferring the Boeings into a clean part for Frank Westside Hamilton Heights.

  • Probably Brahms.

  • One.

  • Stravinsky.

  • He's amazing.

  • The one thing you never have to reboot a piece of paper, So I'm gonna go with paper.

  • My husband and I started traveling at a young age with his mom, was an art teacher, and she started taking trips when we were in high school to Europe, and we've been to China.

  • We went to Egypt's, um, Jeremy and I have been to Vancouver, our goal is to get visit all of the national parks.

  • My husband and I had a camp in 1993 way have been together a long, long time.

  • Two years ago we decided to experience a very new thing, and we had our first child.

  • His name is Jack.

  • He's two and 1/2 and he has a little sister who is Hazel, and she's seven months old, so most of my free time is spent with them because they're just adorable.

  • And I love being a mom, being able to participate in a concert and know that we've had our hands and have taken care of the music that is on stage.

  • There's part of our heart that's out there with our colleagues, and that's very gratifying.

  • It's It's a unique way of making music that Ah lot of people don't get to experience.

  • You have to look at the music with musicians eyes, and that gives us a very unique perspective on making music with our colleagues in the orchestra because we're very much apart of the concerts were just not sitting on stage.

Hi, I'm Sarah Griffin, assistant principal librarian of the New York Philharmonic.

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