Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Let Them Eat Cake

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BLOOMING GREAT TEA-PARTY We can't encourage cake-eating in Whittaker Library, so the library staff had their Marie Curie coffee-morn...
Monday, 27 June 2016

Learning to Write - Talking with Sam Shephard on Digital Theatre Plus

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  https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/study-guides/sam-shepards-family-trilogy Staff and students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotlan...
Thursday, 23 June 2016

Free Play-Readings at the University of Glasgow This Thursday

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Invitation to Expositions: Play Reading Event   Expositions: Play Reading Event – Thursday 30th June, 7pm, James Arnott Theatre, Gilmor...

If Anyone Mentions Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle - Here's Where to Look

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Are you doing a teaching degree or postgraduate certificate?  We have a library subscription to Sage Reference, and there's plenty to fi...
Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Record of a Day - UWS Social Medians Visit Whittaker Library

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Evidence of a great visit!  We do enjoy talking to our counterparts about issues that we all hold dear!

You Won't Believe What Shakespeare Has Done Now!

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School’s results go from Bottom to top, thanks to Shakespeare  by Sarah Cassidy This was in today's Guardian.  The Royal Shakespear...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Can You Afford to be a Theatre Director, Derek Bond asks

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Here's a Guardian Theatre posting - a bit worrying, really:- The secret of theatre directing? Finding another job to pay for it  Pos...

Library Social Medians!

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Meet Whittaker! Social Media: Library Outreach and Professional Networking We're having a get-together with social medians from t...

Actor, or Wannabe? Book Review on Becoming an Actor

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Do you keep an eye on Academia.edu? It's one of the social media sites specially for scholarly types interested in research publications...
Tuesday, 14 June 2016

From Whittaker to the Library and Beyond!

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A Symphonic Tale Once upon a time, Brahms wrote a symphony - his first, as it happens. Later on, Simrock publishers in Berlin produced ...
Monday, 13 June 2016

More Flute Music From the David Nicholson Bequest

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Karen has been busily cataloguing the last of the David Nicholson flute music bequest.  What a lot of music he had!  We are so fortunate to ...

Post-modern violin music from Brazilian composer, Andersen Viana

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Just added to stock today, a donation from Brazil . Publisher Cinemusic have recently sent us a copy of Viana's latest publication - ...

Compete in Vienna in 2017 (String Quartet and Piano Trio)

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We haven't shared details of a competition for a while, but we've just come across this one - sure to interest some of our RCS perfo...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

Manx Music - a Generous Donation

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Rachel Hair, from harpfestival.co.uk Harp player Rachel Hair is an RCS alumna, and has taught Celtic harp on the Isle of Man for several...

Out Now: an Interview with Dominic Cooke

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Director Dominic Cooke has a wealth of experience in staging both classic and contemporary theatre, having worked at the RSC before an eight...

Times Higher Education - TEACHING in Higher Education. We spotted this ...

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Here's an interesting article in today’s Times Higher Education. We thought it might interest our PGCert students working towards the...
Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Find me a Trumpet Duet!

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Sure - not a problem.  You can search our catalogue using our special instrumentation index.  Let's show you how it works. Type Trump...
Thursday, 2 June 2016

Finding Chamber Music Repertoire at RCS

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A very long time ago, before we even had a library computer system, we built a database for finding chamber music for different ensembles. T...
Monday, 30 May 2016

Saint-Saens and the Highlands - We're Mystified!

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A sad, sorry copy of Saint-Saens' Six Etudes pour la main gauche seule has us mystified. We clearly have a lot of left-handed pianists h...

Baroque Violin in the Highlands - read Michael Newton's paper on Academia.ed

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This will interest Scottish fiddlers and Baroque violinists alike. It came up on the Academia.edu website (sometimes referred to as 'th...