Monday, 26th September, 6 pm - Hear Our Brilliant Musicians!

It may be the September weekend in Glasgow, but we have just the event to enliven your Monday evening!  

The first of the Conservatoire's Exchange Talks takes place on Monday 26th September at 6 pm, with an illustrated talk about the music that might have been heard in Scotland in 1808 - the year of Beethoven's benefit concert.  (The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is reconstructing that concert - and at our own Exchange Talk, speaker Karen McAulay has been looking for other music being played at the time.)

Fiddler Bernadette Kellermann and cellist Wallace Calvert will share some traditional tunes.We also have mezzo-soprano Svetlina Stoyanova, pianist Jose Javier Ucendo Malo, cellist Marina Sanchez-Cabello, violinist Michelle Dierx and harpist Ewelina Brzozowska.

The event is free, but you do need a ticket - visit our Box Office to get one! 

Meanwhile in Scotland in 1808

On Sunday 2nd October, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is reenacting a benefit concert that was staged for Beethoven in 1808.  Details of event - click here.

But before that, on Monday 26th September at 6 pm there's going to be an Exchange Talk at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland  in the Ledger Room, to tie in with the 1808 theme.  Be prepared for an interesting auditory experience - we're playing music that may not have been played for nearly two centuries!

Actually, the pieces by Nathaniel Gow are the most commonly known! Concerto Caledonia performed them on their latest CD, Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band.  (We have it in the Whittaker Library).  But there's also an early Scottish song arrangement by Beethoven, a piano trio by Kozeluch, and a duet for harp and piano by Sophia Dussek.  Can you resist?

And this is what happens when music librarians get immersed in historical research!

Exchange Talks: Dr Karen McAulay- Box Office Link

Common Threads Linking Plainsong, Scottish Song & Fiddle Music, and ... Legal Deposit???

October 2015  

On Monday 12th October at 6 pm, Karen has been invited to give one of the regular Exchange Talks here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  

Admission is free, but you need to get a ticket from the box office.

Here's a teaser - see if you can work out what the common thread is!

 Karen’s Masters was about mediaeval plainsong; her PhD explored 18^th and 19^th century Scottish song collecting, and her part-time postdoctoral AHRC research investigated Scottish fiddle-tune accompaniments.  Next, she’ll be examining the University of St Andrews’ historic, but little-known Copyright Music collection. 

In her Exchange Talk, she will reveal the common thread which has interlaced all her research activities.

Jane Manning, "Voicing Pierrot"

The Exchange Talks Monday 22nd October 2012, 6 pm. The Whittaker Library has Jane's book in stock. Details here.