Pipers, Tell Us What You Think!

We found a slightly retro bagpipe website called The Universe of Bagpipes.  There is literally loads of information there, and to the untrained eye, it looks quite respectable (though we don't like the luminous green type on the homepage).  And yes, the url is http://www.hotpipes.com/ !

Pipers, please tell us if you'd like this link added to our music portal on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's library Mahara pages.  If no-one passes any opinion, the link will stay on this blog but won't go to Mahara.  It's up to you!

The Universe of Bagpipes 

http://www.hotpipes.com/

News of a Music and American Oral History Project

Our professional association, IAML, has shared this news with us.  If you're interested in American music, music at one of America's prestige universities, or indeed oral history, then this might be right up your street!

Announcing the Music at MIT Oral History Collection Website!

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a rich history of music. The Music at MIT Oral History Collection website provides access to in-depth interviews conducted 1999-2012 with MIT faculty, staff, and former students;and accounts of the professional careers and activities of these performers, conductors, composers, musical theorists, historians, acousticians, librarians, scientists, and engineers.

Also on offer is the facility to stream audio or video with concurrent transcripts; and downloadable audio files (mp3) and written transcripts (pdf)

Contact Forrest Larson, twiggy@mit.edu for further information.

Spotlight on The Stage - they have a new Website!

Actors, have you see The Stage's new website yet?  

The magazine has been core reading for theatrical people since 1880.  They've been online for ages, of course, but now they have a shiny new website:-

https://www.thestage.co.uk/

 Theatre News, Reviews, Interviews ...

Globe Player! Just Launched!

This weeks sees the launch of the Globe Player. Check it out for some wonderful Shakespeare productions:

www.globeplayer.tv

A review of the website: http://www.thefancarpet.com/newspage.aspx?n_id=10251

Unsung Composers: interesting website

Mysterious but Useful 

Unsung Composers Forum 

The somewhat prosaic appearance is misleading: this discussion forum is a useful website for looking up forgotten and little-known composers of the Romantic era.

http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/

Whittaker hasn't established the origin of this forum, but can advise that it's 'powered by Simple Machines® Forum (SMF) software', which seems to facilitate a number of forums.  And it works!  I looked up Otto Mans the other day - found all I needed to know - and today I looked up Armas Jarnefelt.  Not only did I find biographical details - I even found a CD of the Berceuse for Violin and Orchestra, which I've been playing as an organ arrangement.  Very handy!  (And beautiful, actually.)