LIBRARY OF THE CONGRESS OF USA AND RUSSIA MARIINSKI THEATRE WOOLS
COOPERATING








WASHINGTON, 11 March (of RIA Nowosti rIA-Nowosti-Korrespondent Arkadi
Orlow).  The director of the library of the USA congress, James
Billington, and the director of the Mariinski theatre of St.
Petersburg, Valeri Gergijew, will sign an agreement on 30 March over
co-operation during the maintenance of the unique collection of opera
scores of the theatre.  The agreement designates the composition of a
catalog and a copying of the rare scores as well as from notes of
other music factories, which were collected in the years of the
existence of the theatre, on microfilms.

The library of the USA congress, which is considered as the world
largest collection of books, films and music scores, will supply its
experts for this work.  In the exchange for it the music researchers
from the USA and other countries the right are gotten to use the
microfilm copies of the Russian Materialen.

As James Billington before journalists explained, the collection of
opera scores of the Mariinski theatre was " a genuine treasure ".  The
collection was created on statement of Russian Zaren, today however
the necessity developed to list this collection accurately and in
modern way.