DANCE & MUSIC NEWS

RETIRED: Jimmy Dolan, librarian of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, retired last month after 32 years as keeper and handler of the orchestra’s parts and scores. Dolan, 80, began his career in the library of the Boston Symphony in the 1930s. For 16 years, beginning in 1942, he was Arturo Toscanini’s librarian with the NBC Symphony; after Toscanini’s retirement, Dolan free-lanced with RCA and Columbia Records. In 1963, then-music director Zubin Mehta asked him to come to the L.A. Philharmonic. Since then, Dolan has served as librarian for Mehta, for Carlo Maria Giulini, for Andre Previn and for current music director Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Originally a violinist and violist, Dolan studied at the New England Conservatory (with Emmanuel and Arthur Fiedler) before taking his first music-library job. Succeeding Dolan at the Philharmonic are two co-librarians formerly assistant to him, Ken Bonebrake and Kazue McGregor.