Whittaker Live

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

Friday, 13 December 2019

Stories of British Songs from 1750-1850

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A research network based at the University of Glasgow has created a beautiful website detailing the stories behind a wide range of songs fro...

The Stories Behind Christmas Carols

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A rather interesting series of blogposts was recently announced by rare music and manuscripts dealer, Simon Beattie. Chiming nicely with ...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

NT Archive Tours

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If you would like to see being the scenes of the National Theatre Archive, this is your chance. NT Archive, Hansard by  Simon Woo...

Theatre Voice -

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Get to Know Theatre Voice - a key podcast concerning British Theatre. Ideal to dip into to improve or up date your knowledge about the West ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Modern and Contemporary Female Playwrights – a brief history

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Remember RCS students & staff have access Drama Online.  Drama Online have this week published a feature to discover female playwright...
Monday, 4 November 2019

Nationl Theatre Archive

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The National Theatre Archive is a treasure trove of material, covering all of the creative, technical and administrative records of the Nat...
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Now Digitised! Contact: a Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1990)

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Ah, the Seventies! The Eighties!  It all seems such a long time ago. However, we've just heard that a contemporary music journal fro...

A Happy Halloween from Whittaker Live! Witches in Scotland!

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Happy Halloween to all you RCS ghouls and ghosts!  Click the link below to read a really interesting New York times feature on witches in Sc...
Thursday, 3 October 2019

Hey, Hey, we have a new BSL-signed, Captioned Library Video

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We wanted to share the new library video with you - we're absolutely delighted with it!  We hope it will help explain some of the impo...
Friday, 27 September 2019

Black History Month - a Research Event at RCS

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We're very happy to help promote this research event here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland! Event: Black History Month (BHM) D...
Monday, 23 September 2019

RCS students just LOVE entering competitions - the John Byrne Award is announced

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We heard of an award that might interest our students and staff:-  John Byrne Award " Creative competition & online platform ...

Are you attracted by the idea of Technology in Musical Performance?

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. We've been asked to circulate this invitation to anyone researching the use of technology in musical performance.  So, here we go:-...
Friday, 20 September 2019

Longer Opening Hours for the Library at RCS

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Good news for staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland! Responding to readers' requests, we shall be trialling longe...
Thursday, 12 September 2019

Are You the Next UK Young Musician of the Year?

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Congratulations in advance! https://www.mrssunderlandfestival.com/ You've got to be in it to win it! - so here's the link you...
Friday, 30 August 2019

How Can We Excite You About Moodle and the Portal?!

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How can we excite you about  Moodle and the Portal? RCS uses Moodle for teaching and learning, course-related documentation, and the RC...
Monday, 26 August 2019

Ethical Drama Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize

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On the last day of the Edinburgh Festival.  This New York Times feature will give you an insight into some of the new writing plays doing r...
Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Sharing News: Early Music Monographs (Books) Digitized!

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This is a piece of news that we received via IAML (International Association of Music Libraries) and the MLA (the Music Library Association,...

Tracing Book Details? COPAC is dead, bring on Library Hub Discover

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If you've ever used Copac - the database that brought together all the university and national library catalogues in Britain - then this...
Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Scottish Composers, Seize This Opportunity!

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Quoting from the Sound-Scotland website:- Development opportunity for Scotland-based composers sound is a new music incubator based i...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

Musical Pedagogues! Remember ISME

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Remember we hosted the ISME conference (International Society for Music Education) here at RCS a few years ago?  Well, this year it's in...
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