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Welcome to Morris Levy

The Music Library gladly welcomes Morris Levy to our staff as Senior Music Cataloger. Morris comes to Northwestern from Harvard University's Houghton Library, where since 2001 he has been a Project Music Cataloger for the John Ward Theatre Collection. Prior to that position, Morris was Assistant Librarian at the Berklee College of Music's Stan Getz Media Center and Library from 2000-2001. Morris's duties at Northwestern will include cataloging scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, and other materials as well as managing all Music Library cataloging operations.

Morris holds a B.A. in Music History and Theory from Oberlin College, an M.A. in Folklore with a concentration in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the Music Library Association, and his publications include The King's Theatre Collection: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883 from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection (Houghton Library, 2003; rev. ed. 2006), Italian Ballet, 1637-1977 from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection (Houghton Library, 2005), sixteen articles in the Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge, 2006), and reviews in Notes and the Journal of American Folklore.