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Digital Collections

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Berklee Archives hosts several digital collections, which offer access to content of high research interest, educational value, or exceptionally fragile condition. This includes material pertaining to Berklee’s origins and early influences, such as founder Lawrence Berk’s notebooks from his studies under Joseph Schillinger and the Berk Family collection's early concert recordings and radio broadcasts; materials documenting the academic and performing landscape of the institution, such as course catalogs, concert programs, and event recordings; and in-house documentary efforts such as the ongoing Berklee Oral History project

Digital collections are primarily open to the public, but some are either restricted to users with a Berklee login, or can only be accessed at the workstation in the Archives office under supervision, depending on extant rights issues or donor stipulations about the collection. Contact Berklee Archives staff (archives@berklee.edu) with access inquiries or to schedule visiting appointments. 

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This assembled collection primarily contains course catalogs and bulletins covering 42 of Berklee's first 59 years of operation, offering insight into both the roots and growth of Berklee's curriculum. This collection has been collated from a number of different College sources, primarily the Berklee Office of Public Information records by Alma Berk (BCA-013) and former Vice President for Academic Affairs/Vice Provost, S. Jay Kennedy.

39 items in Collection

    Berklee Today (1989- present) is the official alumni magazine of Berklee. The magazine is currently published semi-annually, though issues released per year have varied since its launch in 1989. Previously a publication of the Office of the Institute of Advancement, Berklee Today is now a publication of the Office of External Affairs as of 2019.

    95 items in Collection

      From 1958 to 1976, the fifteen-volume series Jazz in the Classroom was produced as an innovative educational method that combined scores and recordings to demonstrate jazz writing and performance techniques and showcase the talents of outstanding students of the day. The volumes feature faculty and student composers, arrangers, and performers such as Toshiko Akiyoshi ‘59, Arif Mardin ‘61, Mike Gibbs ‘63, Gábor Szabó ’59, Gary Burton ‘62, Sadao Watanabe ‘65, Alf Clausen ‘66, John Abercrombie ‘67, Alan Broadbent ‘69, Hal Crook ‘71, Abraham Laboriel, Sr., ‘72, Tiger Okoshi ‘75, and many more.

       
      15 items in Collection

        Explore Berklee campus event recordings available to stream online through the Archives’ in-house streaming platform, Berklee Events Online (BEO). This platform launched in 2019 and features select concerts, ceremonies, symposiums, and other events across College and Conservatory history.

          This sampling of digitized Berklee College of Music commencement ceremony and concert audio recordings features speeches by Stan Kenton, Arif Mardin, Duke Ellington, Harry Ellis Dickson, Franklin Patterson, John Williams, Gary Burton, and Bruce Lundvall. Sources include event recording collections produced by the college's Video Services office (BCA-018 and BCA-017), and the Music Production & Engineering departmental recording collection (BCA-016)

          13 items in Collection