Ingrid Bols has just completed her first year of PhD study researching orchestral programming in the UK and France under the supervision of Dr Eva Moreda Rodriguez and Prof. John Butt. When I first arrived in Scotland, I attended several concerts of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow. The orchestra was playing Russian music… Continue reading
Dr Björn Heile is Reader in Music since 1900 at the Music subject area. He has research interests in new music, music and modernism, cosmopolitanism, experimental music and the performance of experimental music and of jazz. After more than five years of hard work by my co-editors Jenny Doctor, Peter Elsdon and myself, not to… Continue reading
Led by Dr David McGuinness, a Senior Lecturer in the Music subject area, early music ensemble Concerto Caledonia delves into the roots of Scottish dance music in its recently released 13th album, Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band. The crack team of stars fiddlers – including PhD student Aaron McGregor – looked together at some of the… Continue reading
Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Lecturer in Music and specializes in the political and cultural history of Spanish music in the 20th century. By a rather fortunate coincidence, the publication of my book Music and Exile in Francoist Spain with Ashgate last month coincided in time with the launch of three separate CDs containing music… Continue reading
