Sadler Wells : Ballet Performances Online:

Sadler Wells have launched a Digital Stage and will be screening archive performances, special one-offs created just for the screen and dance workshops aimed at a variety of ages, from a family workout for ages two-to-six, to classes for the over-sixties.

All of this will be rolled out out over the next several weeks, but things kicked off on Friday March 27 with the release of Balletboyz’s ‘Deluxe’  – the show that was meant to be playing at Sadler’s Wells that night. 

Other performances will include a new version of Wilkie Branson’s dance for camera installation TOM, which would have formed part of Sadler’s Wells’ Digital Edition in April, and Rumpelstiltskin from balletLORENT, who were due to perform as part of Sadler’s Wells’ Family Weekend this Easter.

Sadler’s Wells is also expanding Take Part, its series of projects available to the wider community, from Wednesday 1 April by presenting online workshops and activities for audiences to dance along to in their own homes.

There will be a family workshop created by Cherie Coleman, who runs Family Friday sessions at Sadler’s Wells, for children aged 2 to 6 years and workshops for people aged over 60, inspired by Sadler’s Wells’ Company of Elders programme, hosted by artists including Clara Andermatt, B.Dance, Lucia Caruso, Seeta Patel, Simona Scotto, Alessandra Seutin and New Adventures’ Resident Artist Paul Smethurst. Workshops will be available as YouTube playlists, which will remain online.

Sadler’s Wells will also share dance films specifically created and choreographed for the screen, including MADHEAD, directed by Ben Williams and choreographed by Botis Seva for National Youth Dance Company, and will continue to share its own commissioned film content across social media channels.

Check website for updates and for whats on. 

Lots more shows, films and workshops will be released over the coming weeks

Access Digital Stage.

The National Theatre : Online Performances.

In this time of lockdown the NT (National Theatre UK) will be broadcasting some of their most popular productions weekly on Thursdays at 7 pm. Productions will also be on demand for 7 days after each broadcast. So book your seat at home and log on tonight!





On the 16th April they will be  Polly Findlay's acclaimed production of Treasure Island.

CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE NT WEBSITE

What's in a Name? Electronic, Online, Digital Resources or What?

It may only be a little thing, but we're trying to get our terminology right. We have all these subscriptions to electronic information resources, but we're not sure which words are most meaningful to the most of our readers. So, we're doing a one-question survey. Today we experimented with the iPad - behind the scenes - but watch out for next week! We'll let you what the outcome is!

Watch Opera Online with Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre Plus is a resource that the Whittaker Library subscribes to for the benefit of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland staff and students. Find Digital Theatre Plus on the Whittaker Library website, or via our Mahara pages.

Musicians, don't be fooled by the name - there's opera there, too! These were added in August 2014:-

Three new releases from the Royal Opera House
Three more titles have been added to the Royal Opera House Collection:

Hansel and Gretel
Eugene Onegin
Dido and Aeneas

Now You Can Discover Belgian Music from World War I - Digital Access

The Royal Library of Belgium holds an interesting collection of music from the First World War, and the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project is widening access to it with its digitization project.

Frederic Lemmers, Head of Digitization programs at the Royal Library, gave a presentation about this project to music librarians at the IAML conference in Antwerp earlier this summer. 

• Read Frédéric Lemmers' presentation:  "Music & First World War within the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium"

The Royal Library's selection of documents concerning music during the Great War is available on both the www.europeana.eu and www.europeana1914-1918.eu websites, the main European digital library and its specific thematic portal dedicated to the Great War.

Additionally, there are several collections of songbooks and music sheets from all parts of Europe, on the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project website, where they've been listed by ten European national libraries. (See also : www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu).
Restricted access to the music corpus of the Royal Library of Belgium is also available HERE.
  

Frédéric Lemmers

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)

4, Bd de l'Empereur - Keizerslaan

B-1000 Bruxelles - Brussel

tel.: +32.2.519.56.64

Website:- http://belgica.kbr.be

World War 1 Sheet Music Online (Thank you, Library of Congress!)

American Music Librarians - We Salute You!

The Library of Congress has made available a wonderful collection of World War I sheet music, online.  Click on the images - a treat in themselves - and download pdf files of individual songs.  

This is a really invaluable resource - we're often asked for sheet music from the First World War, by music, musical theatre, and drama students.  Everyone should note this very useful link in a safe place.  (Karen's adding it to her Diigo account straight away.)

• World War I Sheet Music 
• Library of Congress homepage

Readers may be interested to note that the compiler, Paul Fraunfelter - Digital Conversion Specialist at the Library of Congress - will be giving a paper at a forthcoming conference on The Music of War: 1914-18, at the British Library in London:-

"The Music of War: 1914–1918
29–31 August 2014
British Library, London
"An international conference to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Held as part of the British Library's Centenary events programme, supported by the Royal Musical Association, Music & Letters, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities."  Click HERE for further details.

Paul advises us that, "Among the many panels and presentations from international scholars, will be my ‘WWI Sheet Music at the Library of Congress: America’s War as Viewed by Publishers and the Public’, which is the associated essay on the LC site."

Online Search Facility for Scottish Music in Wighton Collection, Dundee

Great News!

Friends of Wighton have made a temporary search facility for the Wighton Database.  Andrew Wighton was a Victorian collector of Scottish music.  His entire collection was  bequeathed to the City, in Dundee Central Library, and is kept in a fabulous newly-created space.  A few years ago the collection was catalogued online, and all the songs and tunes in every book were listed on the Wighton Database. 

For a while, this database has been off-line and unsearchable, although Google sometimes retrieved its contents.

So this NEW temporary search page is a great blessing!  Our congratulations to the Friends of Wighton for making this happen.

Search the Wighton Database at http://www.johnbagnall.info/allwighton.html

RCS Staff and Students - Academic Video Online Database Trial

From today, until 30th November 2013, all students and staff at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have access to Academic Video Online: Premium by going directly to: http://video.alexanderstreet.com.

Alexander Street Press offers this video service, which contains thousands of hours of video on a single cross-searchable platform, with individual discipline collections in dance, opera, theatre, film studies, classical music, musical performance, opera, education, and more.

NB This access is on a trial basis for 3 months.

Oxford Bodleian Library Makes Music Card Catalogue available Online

News from Music@The Bodleian blog - the music card catalogue is now available online.

Read the blogpost here.

One-World Schoolhouse (Salman Khan)

Flipping the Classroom, and teaching via YouTube

One of the most exciting books Karen has read for a while, this is about Salman Khan's revolutionary new approach to education via online technology.  Reading it, you begin perhaps with a little scepticism - does this approach really work?  What about the pedagogy behind it?  But the figures speak for themselves - the Khan Academy gets results.

We've bought a copy for the Whittaker Library - click here!

Details here

myShakespeare

myShakespeare

Shakespeare interpreted online for the digital age.  See what you think:-

http://myshakespeare.worldshakespearefestival.org.uk/

Charlie Gore online (Scottish Fiddle Index now Scottish Music Index)

From printed Scottish Fiddle Music Index

... To online Scottish Music Index

Charlie Gore published his Scottish Fiddle Music Index in 1994. The Whittaker Library has a copy of this invaluable resource in its reference section, here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  (Details here.)

You can find Scottish fiddle tunes, indexed by "intervals-going-up-and-down", and the book will tell you where to find the tune in hundreds of old fiddle books.  It was truly a labour of love, and worth every minute to people working with this repertoire.

Now, it's online.  (There should be a cyber drumroll and/or a fanfare to announce this.  It really is that important.)

The online version - note the new title!

Find Charlie's 21st-century new edition, The Scottish Music Index, here:-

• http://www.scottishmusicindex.org/

VADS - Online Resource for Visual Arts

A library contact tweeted about this collection, which looks potentially very useful to costume and other designers.

For example, the Richard Rutt Collection is a scholar and former bishop's collection relating to knitting patterns.  You can view all the knitting manuals in the Richard Rutt Collection online at Winchester School of Art Library.

http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/WSA

Britten-Pears Foundation - online info

You can now view the Britten-Pears Thematic Catalogue online. Visit the Britten-Pears Foundation website, and take it from there! Image from Tomski on Flickr, with thanks

Intute - what in the www is out there ...?

Have you come across Intute? If you're looking for reliable, subject-related information, it's a great place to start.

• Intute - Arts and Humanities - Music & Performing Arts
• Intute homepage

Here's how the Music and Performing Arts resource describes itself:-

In combining the resources and services of these hubs, the Arts and Humanities service of Intute offers an easy-to-use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research in Creative Arts and Humanities.

London Music Trades 1750-1800

The Centre for Performance History at the Royal College of Music has created a very useful resource in this database for the London Music Trades 1750-1800. Find out about:-

• Music publishers
• Instrument makers
• Apprenticeships
• Insurance records
• Poll books
• Wills

Great for historical research!

Grove Music Online upgraded

Staff and students of RSAMD can now access the new, improved, relaunched Grove Online website. No need to login from within the building; use your Athens login and password from anywhere else in the world.