Whittaker Live

Performing arts blogging by the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Friday, 30 November 2012

Alain Badiou - The Century (required reading)

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  It's a must! - Alain Badiou's The Century Christina Guillaumier asked the Whittaker Library to buy this book as required rea...

We've ordered another 'How to Write a Lot'

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Oh, they're dead keen, our scholarly community!  So many have reserved my recommendation that we've ordered another copy of Paul Si...

Scottish Storytelling Centre - Courses coming up

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Latest programme - Spring 2013   ( The Scottish Storytelling Centre is in Edinburgh.)

Music Librarian Cataloguing Nerd

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I got ridiculously excited about this - the Library of Congress classification schedules as a PDF, online!  Very useful indeed. Music  and...

Happy St Andrew's Day

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Scottish songs , anyone?  Or how about some Scottish plays ? Scottish culture in general? Whittaker Library - the one-stop-shop for al...

SoundEffects, a new open-source electronic journal from Aarhus

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'Whittaker' was alerted to this new electronic journal by a blogpost from Bibliolore . SoundEffects was launched by Aarhus Unive...
Thursday, 29 November 2012

Advent Calendar

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What? I only get one chocolate? From the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound - click here .  They warn us that these are old, archiva...

Articles on Theatre Practice

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Theatre Research International Calling all theatrical researchers!  (Maybe we should rephrase that ...?) 'Whittaker' received a...

Past and Present Performance Practitioners

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Routledge Performance Archive Trial "The Routledge Performance Archive is a developing resource produced in partnership with Digita...

Writing and productivity

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Interesting blogpost from the London School of Economics - it's sure to be useful to everyone involved in research. 30 tips for suc...

Un-making things: clothing in the 18th century

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Here's an interesting post about making clothes in the 18th century.  It's on a blog called Un-making things , and it's from th...

National Review of Live Art Archive

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INTO THE FUTURE The National Review of Live Art Festival ran from 1986-2010.  This link takes you to the audio-visual archive of live art...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Costume Inspiration

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Whittaker's friends at Nottingham-based firm Sewing Online have suggested a Pinterest site that might interest our costume designers.  ...
Monday, 26 November 2012

Getting it Loud in Libraries - sound is turned off

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Since 2005, there has been a BRILLIANT (no exaggeration) initiative bringing pop music to young people in public libraries around Britain.  ...

Bibliolore blogs about Lloyd Miller and Oriental Jazz

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Staff and students on our Jazz degree course might find this blogpost interesting:- Lloyd Miller and Oriental Jazz
Friday, 23 November 2012

Get Creative - a BUFVC film course

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Get Creative Raising awareness of moving image & sound content in your institution Friday 7 December 2012, 10am – 3pm The Geologi...

Composer for the Violin, Henri Vieuxtemps

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Just been invited to a virtual exhibition.  The invitation explains itself:- [You are invited to] "our virtual exhibition on the li...

The forests whence instruments are made

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Earlier this year, I blogged about Otis A. Tomas and The Fiddletree - his book documenting the making of a quartet of instruments from an o...
Thursday, 22 November 2012

Costume-Making

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For costume designers Sometimes 'Whittaker' feels guilty that he doesn't find enough useful content for our technical student...

Race and Racism in Today's Theatre

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There was an interesting theatre review in Times Higher Education magazine at the beginning of November.  It's thought-provoking, so you...
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