Boxed in

If you've visited our main meeting room upstairs at the Martin Ave. facility anytime in the past few years, you may have noticed how our valuable collection of scores and sheet music was rather haphazardly stored in random cardboard boxes. You may also have noticed the nearby spot in the ceiling where water leaks in every winter when there's a heavy rainstorm.

Now, water and musical scores don't mix well. Actually, I guess you could say they mix too well -- and turn into mush. And cardboard boxes don't provide much protection against that happening.

So a few months ago, Jennifer Martin located some nice plastic boxes on sale at Office Depot, Lyric bought a bunch of them, and she has been organizing those vulnerable paper resources into those new boxes (pictured above), and getting them attractively and uniformly labeled. It's a good thing she did, too: shortly after she finished, we had those big storms several weeks ago, and we had ceiling leaks all over the place.

But thanks to Jennifer's initiative, not a page of our collection was damaged.

Thanks, Jenn!