Launched in 2011, the New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives is one of the best-known and most-used resources in the concert music world. It comprises more than four million pages of printed programs, marked conducting scores and parts, business documents, and photographs. Growing continually, this free online resource includes every document in the New York Philharmonic Archives from 1842 through 1970, program planning papers through 1977, and public facing materials, such as programs and press releases. Over 150,000 researchers use the digital archives each year, including working musicians, cultural historians, journalists, students, and general music lovers. In the lobby of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Collections portal on the Hauser Media Wall displays rotating exhibitions of material from the digital archives and partner organizations, curated to offer a historical context on current and upcoming Philharmonic programs.
