Stan Winston School of Character Arts - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Drama students, have you been using the Stan Winston online resource?  What's in it for me?, we hear you ask ...

The Stan Winston School

• https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/stan-winston-school-of-character-arts

"Stan Winston School is the world's premiere online destination for learning the art and technology of character creation from Award-winning industry professionals. Creating compelling characters requires a vast range of skills and techniques, from big budget cinematic approaches to DIY methods you can use in your garage or home workshop."

•  500+ hours of On-Demand video instruction to choose from
• Live Online Courses, providing Students with the opportunity to connect with our faculty in real-time, and even earn a Stan Winston School Certificate! 
• If you're an artist or technician who wants to learn from the best, welcome to SWSCA. Learn, Create!

RCS registered staff and students can request the login details from the Library desk.  However, we thought we'd better let you know that Stan Winston are no longer supporting Internet Explorer.

If any RCS reader finds that they are seeing a black screen when they click onto their site then this will be the reason. Please use another browser such as Chrome.

Cool New Library Colleague? Meet our Snow Queen

Here are some suggestions of things you might enjoy - seasonal and otherwise! Access all this goodness via the library catalogue or our dedicated web-pages.

CLICK HERE for our Library Portal pages 
CLICK HERE for the Library Catalogue
CLICK HERE for library guides on the Portal

Why not explore our costume eBooks?







 You might enjoy listening to  recordings of the ballet The Snow Queen on Naxos ...
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For a different take on the Snow Queen, consider Elsa, from Frozen.  Read Sarah Whitfield's chapter in The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen, locating Frozen as a Feminist Disney Musical.  This is available on Drama Online.

'Team Snow Queen: feminist cinematic ‘misinterpretations’ of a fairy tale': this online article in the E-Journal Studies in European Cinema looks at four female directors using Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Snow Queen’ as hypotext. 












How about some 'Snow Queen' tracks in the Jazz Music Library?

Trouble accessing offsite? Try looking at our guides on the portal

Jazz and the Jitterbug

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We're adding a batch of early-to-mid twentieth century popular piano pieces and songs to stock at the moment.  It seemed like a good idea to hunt out YouTube versions, to bring them to life.  All went well until we reached Joe Garland's "In the Mood", which was hugely popular. Played by Glen Miller and his Orchestra, it generated sung versions, foxtrots, and ... the jitterbug.  Well, this was 1939, World War II, and the jitterbug was a particular kind of bomb.  The song comes complete with a ballroom routine giving the dance steps for the Jitterbug dance.

Ballroom dancing not being a specialism for this particular cataloguer, we throw the opportunity open to everyone else.  Who would like to learn this very unique, almost frenzied dance?!

It'll be shelved at M1622 G

Another Competition in Vienna! Hilde Zadek Voice Competition April 2019

New in the post today, details of another competition in Vienna - this time for singers.

11th International Hilde Zadek Voice Competition

April 22-27, 2019

2019 Focus: Opera of the 21st Century

A collaboration between the Hildegard Zadek Foundation and the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.  

More details of the competition and its very valuable prizes:-

https://zadek-competition.jimdo.com/

Festival International de Musique Universitaire (FIMU) at Belfort, France

Our mailbox received details of another music festival, which we're happy to share with you here:-

International University Music Festival

6-10 June 2019  

Call for Applications:-

www.fimu.com

 

Besancon - International Competition for Young Conductors

We've just received notification of this conducting competition, taking place 16-21 September 2019.
Find out more at the competition website:-

http://www.festival-besancon.com/en/besancon-music-festival-news/