Search Tips and Tools

Searching the Digital Archive

The search bar at the top of the screen searches for keywords; searching a term will bring you any result that has that term in it. This includes program titles and works as well as some of the text in the programs themselves.

Quotation marks let you search a specific phrase. If you only want to see items about Symphony Hall, search for “Symphony Hall.” Searching for Symphony Hall without quotes will bring you any result that has the word Symphony or the word Hall.

You can use the tickboxes on the left side of the search results page to narrow down the results by the composers tagged or the types of music tagged. If you want to broaden your results again, simply unclick the box. The page will update automatically.

Programs have been tagged with the major composers that appear in them as well as with some of the types of music that appear in them. When using the tickboxes, the Subject options narrow down by type of music. The Contributor options narrow down by composer.

Browsing the Digital Archive

If you wish to search for a program by its date, browsing will be your best option; our materials are organized into folders by date.

You may browse through the full collection of programs by clicking the “Start Browsing the Collection” button near the top left of the page. From there, click through the nested folders to find the programs. Up to 1965, the programs have been grouped into folders in 50-year increments. Starting with the 1965-1966 season, each season has its own folder with all the programs we have for that season.