Singers, Do You Act? Interesting article about variety theatre

  'When Singing Was Acting: Song and Character in Variety Theater'

 Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can read a new article by Gillian M. Rodger, entitled 'When Singing Was Acting: Song and Character in Variety Theater' - it's in the latest edition of Musical Quarterly (Spring-Summer 2015).

Our registered staff and students can read it online using the Conservatoire's subscription to Musical Quarterly. Access it via our library website, using our institutional login.

The whole journal is about Tin Pan Alley; it's well-worth a look:-
CONTENTS

• “Making Songs Pay”: Tin Pan Alley’s Formula for Success / Daniel Goldmark
• Hogan’s Tin Pan Alley: R. F. Outcault and Popular Sheet Music / Keir Keightley
• When Singing Was Acting: Song and Character in Variety Theater / Gillian M. Rodger
• Richard Rodgers: Collaborator / Charlotte Greenspan
• My Father’s Musical Time Capsule: On Tin Pan Alley Songs (1920–50), Sheet Music, and the American Dream That Got Away / Rose Rosengard Subotnik
• Arlen’s Tapeworms: The Tunes That Got Away / Walter Frisch

Awesome! Free Lieder Scores for RCS Staff and Students!

We subscribe to Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library Collections 1 and 2.  That means you can download anything you find there.

We did an Advanced Search for Lieder.  Just that one word - and look what we found!

But it's not just vocal music - there's classical music for everyone, whatever they sing or play.  Do take a look.  (If you're accessing these links from off-campus, you'll need to login.)

• Classical Scores Library Advanced Search (one search searches all)

• Classical Scores Library Homepage
•  Classical Scores Library 2 Homepage

Let us Play - Drama Online Database

New Database Subscription for Drama School

We just can't wait!  We just had to share this news with you - the Whittaker Library is soon to subscribe to Drama Online.  We have trial access until the new academic year starts, which means our community can start using it, on site, right now.  Once we have the full subscription, staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will be able to access it from home, too.

Take a look!

http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/