Tuesday, 31 July 2012

When a Music Librarian goes all Musical

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Some months ago, I rashly decided to arrange a suite of Hebridean folksongs from Alexander Campbell's song-collection, Albyn's Anth...

Sunny day, blue sky - not yet the 'Last rose of summer'

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Super-searching to save time Just when we were thinking Scotland's summer was over, here it is.  What's that strange brightness i...

On this day: John Muir Wood

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Last year, Whittaker started a series of 'on this day' postings commemorating little-known names connected with Scottish musical hi...
Monday, 30 July 2012

NYOS Concerts - and an intriguing tune

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From the NYOS website, with due acknowledgment The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland is about to begin its annual summer tour.  Detai...

And Whittaker's back!

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Image from CreativeTimes.blogspot.com, with thanks Two weeks away, and coming back to Whittaker Live is like coming back to a fusty, dus...
Friday, 20 July 2012

It's official - the Whittaker Library is excellent!

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Karen was presented with one of 14 IAML (UK and Ireland) Excellence Awards on behalf of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Whittaker ...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

Edinburgh International Festival

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The Edinburgh Festival is less than a month away!  9th August - 2nd September 2012. Edinburgh International Festival website here Follow ...
Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Interested in archives?

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You can sign up to be sent the National Archives Newsletter , if you're interested in their work. Click here ...
Tuesday, 17 July 2012

TV and Film Industry Guide

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Here's a useful document from the British Library Business and IP* Centre:- TV and Film Industry Guide ( download pdf here ) Britis...
Monday, 16 July 2012

British Library event for film-makers

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The Sheffield Doc/Fest summer event 20 August, at the British Library (London St Pancras) Event details Who should attend? Documenta...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

Maeve Mackinnon, alumna

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Maeve Mackinnon is an alumna of RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), and starred on the CD released under Brian McNeill's tu...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

Serendipity

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Don't you love it when things coincidentally line up in front of you? Thankfully, ours is smarter! Going through some donations i...

Enterprise Music Scotland - bookmark this!

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http://www.emusicscotland.co.uk/ "Enterprise Music Scotland is the body funded by Creative Scotland to support top quality live cham...

Piano masterclasses with Robert Levin (Leipzig)

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Masterclass 13-17 November 2012 'Whittaker' has just received notification of piano and piano chamber music masterclasses with ...

Death of not one legend, but two

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Actor Ernest Borgnine died on 8 July, aged 95.  picture: IMDb.com (Internet Move Database) As noted in HollywoodReporter.com Staff ...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Finding Scottish Fiddle Music

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Whaur's the Fiddle Music? As soon as you start looking for Scottish fiddle music in the Whittaker Library, you realise that it isn...

Mary Wollstonecraft blog by Roberta Wedge

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Wollstonecraft Live by Anna Birch Royal Conservatoire of Scotland research lecturer Anna Birch's , Wollstonecraft Live , first took ...

(Must we call it) Information Literacy

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As you know, 'Whittaker' is a champion of digital information literacy - no-one's going to get far if they're not web-savvy ...

Cultural impact of Chinese Cinema

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Chinese Film This week sees the inauguration of a new research project into the cultural impact of Chinese film in the 21st century, sp...

Time to find out about the AHRC

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Students researching in the humanities will already know about the AHRC .  But how much do you know about the bigger picture? There are ...