Digital Collections

This collection consists of concert programs generated by Berklee College of Music’s Concert Operations department, known colloquially as the Concert Office. Events include student, faculty, and visiting artist performances in the following five campus venues: Lawrence and Alma Berk Hall, Oliver Colvin Hall, David Friend Hall, The Red Room @ Café 939, and the Berklee Performance Center. The collection also features some joint performances with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee following the merger in 2016.

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.

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.