Honouring one of the greatest Human Rights Proponents - Martin Luther King

Fifty Years after Martin Luther King was Assassinated

We've recently received an email from Drama Online promoting a powerful play imagining what could have happened in the room where Martin Luther King was assassinated.    Maybe you'd be interested to listen to it?  If you're a student or member of staff at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, then you're in luck - we're subscribers!

"Katori Hall's powerful play The Mountaintop imagines what could have transpired inside room 306 of the now-famous Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated after delivering his final, prophetic "Mountaintop" speech."

"This month, we're honoring the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death by making The Mountaintop free to read and listen to."

Remember, off-site access requires you to use the Shibboleth process – identify RCS from a list of institutions BEFORE attempting to use your own login.

 

• Read it:- http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-mountaintop-iid-135369
• Listen to the LA Theatre Works performance:- http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-mountaintop-iid-178769

Veera Lapinski wins Elaine Campbell Gullan Poetry Competition

Theme: Blue Planet

Last Friday evening, the Whittaker Library hosted the 2018 Elaine Campbell Gullan Poetry Competition. Here is the winner, Veera Lapinski, with the judge, Iain Lowson. Vera not only performed but also wrote her winning poem.  Many congratulations, Veera!

Early Spanish Sound Recordings: Cultural attitudes to the Phonograph

A new blogpost on the Claimed From Stationers' Hall website considers legal deposit of sound recordings in Spain. Read it here:-

The Wonders of the Spanish Legal Deposit, by Glasgow University music lecturer, Dr Eva Moreda Rodriguez.

Bantock's letters to Scottish composer William Francis Stuart Wallace - a talk at NLS

Granville Bantock’s Letters to Wallace, 1893-1900 Tickets ...

Attend a talk by Professor Michael Allis, from the University of Leeds.  The National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall presents Granville Bantock’s Letters to Wallace, 1893-1900.

Thursday, 28 June 2018 at National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

 www.eventbrite.co.uk

Eventbrite - National Library of Scotland 

Library FAQs and Guides on our Library Portal ...

Welcome to the Whittaker Library (Turn on the sound - it's a chirpy wee tune!) You'll find all our library FAQs and Guides on our library portal pages. https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/library/library-guides/

2nd Berliner International Music Competition

We received another email about a competition that will interest our performers.  But you'll have to be quick!  This is your final reminder!

Deadline: 15th of June

Recitals at Berlin Philharmonie, 

Berliner Online Music Competition

2nd Berliner International Music Competition

Piano - Strings - Voice - Winds - Brass

Online Competition (No travelling)

Recitals at Berlin Philharmonie

Over 25,000€ in prizes

Audio and video recording

VIDEO SELECTION - Travelling is not required to apply

https://www.berlinercompetition.com/

Piano Pedagogy - Learn Like Emily Bronte

Did you know that you can look at historical piano teaching materials in the libraries that hold legal deposit collections?  Nowadays, there are a handful of big national and university libraries in the UK that still receive one copy of everything published, under statutory legislation.  But there are other libraries - especially in Scotland - that also received this material, until the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign.

Theodore Latour was pianist to King George IV - Victoria's uncle.  He taught, played and composed, and also wrote some piano tutor books.  See a quick 90-second videoclip about him, here.

Latour - Piano professor & the King's Pianiste on Biteable.

• https://biteable.com/watch/latour-piano-professor-the-kings-pianiste-1902905/ 

It's possible to find copies of some of Latour's works online via Google Books, IMSLP or Archive.org, so if you're interested, we could help you source them.

And yes, Emily Bronte had music by Latour in her collection.  How do we know?  There's a book by Robert K. Wallace that tells us so!  (Emily Bronte and Beethoven: Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music).  We don't have this book, but could get it on inter library loan if any of our readers were interested.