Berlin Philharmoniker Free Access to Archive

Berlin Philharmoniker

During the coronavirus lockdown period the Berlin Philharmoniker has given 30 days of free access to the Digital Concert Hall with over 600 orchestral concerts, bonus videos and documentaries.

Click HERE to Access Via Library Online Music Resources

Click here to access Berlin Philharmoniker Website

Cambridge University Press

Access to over 700 textbooks on Cambridge Core for third level students. (login with institutional password) 

CUP have made higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak to support universities and their students. More than 700 textbooks, published and currently available on Cambridge Core – our online home for academic books and journals – are available online to students through their university library regardless of whether they were previously purchased.

You can access via  CUP content via the Whittaker library catalogue and are also via the library portal. 

Click Here To Access Via Library Online Resources

Click Here For CUP Website

Wigs, Hair, Make-up at the National Theatre (GB)

In this time of lockdown why not rediscover Theatre Voice. A platform for podcasts about UK theatre.  The latest podcast is an interview with GIUSEPPE CANNAS. 


Click here to access


Sam Marlowe sits down with Giuseppe Cannas, Head of Wigs, Hair and Make-up at the National Theatre, to find out about the extraordinary craft and minute detail involved in creating a production’s special effects. From hand-stitching every single hair, to creating exploding eyeballs, Cannas’ work not only involves a wide range of disciplines, but also managing a team of almost two dozen people. Recorded on 03 March 2020 at the National Theatre in London.

Sadler Wells : Ballet Performances Online:

Sadler Wells have launched a Digital Stage and will be screening archive performances, special one-offs created just for the screen and dance workshops aimed at a variety of ages, from a family workout for ages two-to-six, to classes for the over-sixties.

All of this will be rolled out out over the next several weeks, but things kicked off on Friday March 27 with the release of Balletboyz’s ‘Deluxe’  – the show that was meant to be playing at Sadler’s Wells that night. 

Other performances will include a new version of Wilkie Branson’s dance for camera installation TOM, which would have formed part of Sadler’s Wells’ Digital Edition in April, and Rumpelstiltskin from balletLORENT, who were due to perform as part of Sadler’s Wells’ Family Weekend this Easter.

Sadler’s Wells is also expanding Take Part, its series of projects available to the wider community, from Wednesday 1 April by presenting online workshops and activities for audiences to dance along to in their own homes.

There will be a family workshop created by Cherie Coleman, who runs Family Friday sessions at Sadler’s Wells, for children aged 2 to 6 years and workshops for people aged over 60, inspired by Sadler’s Wells’ Company of Elders programme, hosted by artists including Clara Andermatt, B.Dance, Lucia Caruso, Seeta Patel, Simona Scotto, Alessandra Seutin and New Adventures’ Resident Artist Paul Smethurst. Workshops will be available as YouTube playlists, which will remain online.

Sadler’s Wells will also share dance films specifically created and choreographed for the screen, including MADHEAD, directed by Ben Williams and choreographed by Botis Seva for National Youth Dance Company, and will continue to share its own commissioned film content across social media channels.

Check website for updates and for whats on. 

Lots more shows, films and workshops will be released over the coming weeks

Access Digital Stage.

The National Theatre : Online Performances.

In this time of lockdown the NT (National Theatre UK) will be broadcasting some of their most popular productions weekly on Thursdays at 7 pm. Productions will also be on demand for 7 days after each broadcast. So book your seat at home and log on tonight!





On the 16th April they will be  Polly Findlay's acclaimed production of Treasure Island.

CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE NT WEBSITE

THE BUNKER THEATRE ( THEATRE VOICE )

Audio Interview with Directors CHRIS SONNEX AND DAVID RALF. In 2016 Joshua McTaggart and Joel Fisher converted an underground car park in south London into a theatre, and very quickly the Bunker established itself as a leading fringe venue. Find out more about this innovative theatre company at Theatre Voice. 


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Check out THEATRE VOICE for a wealth of interviews and information of current UK theatre professionals. Audio content about British theatre, and features journalists from across the UK press and practitioners from across the theatre industry. It was set up in 2003 to see if theatre could be talked about in a new way: allowing critics to be more expansive than the usual space constraints of the print media allowed; to enable actors, writers, directors and designers to be heard talking in detail and at length about their work; and to help members of the public interact more directly with theatre-makers and commentators.

LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

We've just been sent fliers for a prestigious conducting competition.  The competition takes place in March 2021, but the deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2020.

If you're an ambitious conductor, you'd better take a look at the details right now!  

https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/donatella-flick-lso-conducting-competition.html

Brio - Special Issue Celebrates Claimed From Stationers' Hall network

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A couple of years ago, one of our librarians was awarded an AHRC networking grant to establish the Claimed From Stationers' Hall network, studying early British legal deposit music and the libraries that received it.

THIS WEEK, a special issue of Brio will hit library shelves in the UK and beyond - it's dedicated to papers about not only early legal deposit music, but also modern musical copyright issues.  A fascinating read - look out for it!

Brio is the official professional journal of the International Association of Music Libraries (UK and Ireland Branch).  We are grateful both to the branch for allowing us to produce this issue, and to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, who kindly granted an Athenaeum Award towards the publication of this special issue.

From the Claimed From Stationers' Hall blog:- 

https://claimedfromstationershall.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/claimed-from-stationers-hall-papers-from-an-ahrc-funded-network-project-brio-vol-56-no-2-autumn-winter-2019/

Digital Music Exhibitions

Whilst we were closed, we were notified of a couple of lovely Irish digital music exhibitions from the Irish Traditional Music Archive.  Do take a look - you'll find it interesting!

" ... some information on our latest traditional music digital exhibitions freely available online.

Furls of Music: a digital exhibition based on field recordings made by Leitrim flute player Michael McNamara 1959-mid 1990s

https://www.itma.ie/michaelmcnamara

Dusty Bluebells: a digital exhibition based on field recordings of children’s songs made by Hugh Shields 1961-1975 https://www.itma.ie/dustybluebells"

Stories of British Songs from 1750-1850

A research network based at the University of Glasgow has created a beautiful website detailing the stories behind a wide range of songs from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the Georgian and early Victorian eras.

Do take a look at the Romantic National Song Network: Exploring the Songs of Britain 1750-1850 - you might find a few surprises about those well-loved national songs!

The Stories Behind Christmas Carols

A rather interesting series of blogposts was recently announced by rare music and

manuscripts dealer, Simon Beattie. Chiming nicely with the festive season, he's sharing the history of a Christmas carol each day in December.

Do take a look - you're sure to learn something new!

http://simonbeattie.co.uk/blog/ 

Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay 

NT Archive Tours

If you would like to see being the scenes of the National Theatre Archive, this is your chance.

NT Archive,

Hansard by  Simon Woods 

with Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings

 

The NT Archive is offering public tours of its collections in January and February next year. You can book these through the NT website:
Click here for access to website.

Theatre Voice -

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 End theatre scene.

The latest TheatreVoice interview is now available online:


Julie Taymor

To mark its 20th anniversary in the West End, The Lion King's director joins Dominic Cavendish to look back at the show’s beginnings. Surveying its astonishing success – the highest-grossing Broadway show in history – they move onto the question of its aesthetic politics, from progressive casting to cultural appropriation. Recorded in London, October 2019.

 

Click Here to visit Theatre Voice Podcast

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Also on iTunes

Modern and Contemporary Female Playwrights – a brief history

Remember RCS students & staff have access Drama Online. 

Drama Online have this week published a feature to discover female playwrights and their writing. This new introduction feature is free to view along with 13 linked plays, until the end of 2019. 

Click here to access Drama Online 

Nationl Theatre Archive

The National Theatre Archive is a treasure trove of material, covering all of the creative, technical and administrative records of the National Theatre. The Archive is open to everyone by appointment. The collection covers the movement to found the National Theatre and the period from the start of the company in 1963 right up to the present day. 

Click here to visit the website & catalogue of N.T. Archive

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

Ah, the Seventies! The Eighties!  It all seems such a long time ago.

However, we've just heard that a contemporary music journal from those halcyon days has been digitised, so now you can re-visit what was new then.  We're particularly pleased to learn this, because our own former Head of Research, Celia Duffy, was involved in the editing of this journal at the very beginning of her career.

The digitisation of the journal Contact has been completed by staff at Goldsmiths, University of London.  It is now freely available at https://www.contactjournal.gold.ac.uk/

Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music was active from 1971–1990, and independently published by its editors. As with many independent print publications of that era, this has meant that, for readers and researchers operating in a contemporary digital landscape, the richness of its resource has been all but inaccessible.

In recognition of this situation,  the entire journal has been digitised and made available over the course of a three-year research project.  It was led by Dr James Bulley, Research Associate in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, in collaboration with former editor and co-founder of Contact, Professor Keith Potter, and with the assistance of Dr Settimio Fiorenzo Palermo and Gregory White.

Such projects entail more work than you might think.  The project included:-

• Developing best-practice techniques for the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on each article of Contact (creating a searchable, accessible and machine-readable database)
• Aggregation of digitised articles across contemporary research search engines
• Digital preservation to the highest global standards
• The creation of metadata, licensing and digital object identifiers for each issue and article within the archive.

Do take a look!  You might be surprised at how what was "new" then, is now accepted practice.  Or, conversely, maybe composers tried new techniques but they didn't catch on.  You won't know unless you take a look!

https://www.contactjournal.gold.ac.uk/

A Happy Halloween from Whittaker Live! Witches in Scotland!

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 Scotland or click links below to see items held in the library with a Halloween theme!

The Wizard of Oz , 1939 

Witches of Scotland ( New York Times)!

Did you know the library has 9 plays about witches!

Click here to see list in catalogue

Did you know the library has about 25 items music, vocal score and DVD that relate to Halloween.

Click here to see list in catalogue of Halloween items 

Get to know the library catalogue better and the power to find things via a subject index search!

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

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 important things about the library here at RCS.

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You can find it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/eTmyDRCF-Pk

And on the Portal at the library's Help and Support page:- https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/library/help-support/

The captions can be turned on using the CC button on YouTube. 

Our thanks go to our RCS alumnus actor, and to our RCS colleagues for helping us put this all together!

Black History Month - a Research Event at RCS

We're very happy to help promote this research event here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!

Event: Black History Month (BHM) Doctoral Researchers’ Event
Event Date: 25/10/2019
Deadline for abstracts: 7/10/2019

The Equality and Diversity Forum in partnership with the Research and Knowledge Exchange directorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is pleased to present the first Black History Month (BHM) Doctoral Researchers Event to be held at the RCS on 25th October. 

This event is to promote and celebrate BAME researchers and their work.

Call for presentations: We would like to invite abstracts for a fifteen-minute presentation (performances are also encouraged) followed by discussion and questions. This call is open to all BAME arts and humanities doctoral researchers from the UK. The programme allows for 8 presentations and presenters are free to choose whether or not their presentation will directly address the challenges and/or opportunities of being a BAME researcher.

Please send a title and a 250-word outline of your presentation to a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk by Monday 7th Oct.

The event is free to all. If you would prefer to just attend the event or are interested in chairing or moderating please email a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk. Please note that there are limited places due to the venue capacity.

Non-BAME doctoral researchers are also welcome to attend and can email a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk.

Presentations will be followed by an evening event of poetry, opera and a panel discussion focused on ‘Decolonising the curriculum in the arts.’ All participants will be eligible for a free ticket.

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

We heard of an award that might interest our students and staff:- 

John Byrne Award

"Creative competition & online platform welcoming entries from everybody over 16 living or studying in Scotland. £7,500 top prize." Enter now via link above.

" ... now open to everybody over 16 living or studying in Scotland PLUS.... have tripled annual prize money to £7500!"