‘The Jolly Beggars’ in London after 200 years!
As some of you will have seen via our twitter account, we took Burns’s cantata ‘The Jolly Beggars’ to London last week. If you look back through our ERB21C blogs you’ll note that this,...
Author: Kirsteen McCue
Missing Flute Part for The Jolly Beggars – Can you help?
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I last blogged on the project. We’ve been working hard, as Gerry McKeever’s blog on collations shows, on the detailed analysis of each song for the edition...
Bringing Burns’s songs alive!
Hello again! Just a quick update on things….you may have seen Vivien’s live tweets ! We held the first of our performance workshops for the project a couple of weeks ago, working with a...
Singing and accompanying Burns’s songs
As per usual it’s been a busy time on the project in the past few weeks. After my trip to New York in June I’ve been working closely with Vivien and Gerry McKeever on...
Burns’s letters in New York City
Hi there! I realise it’s been several weeks since I posted my last blog about the project. We’ve all been very busy indeed. Vivien has been working on a web exhibition of the illustrations...
Thomson and Burns
Hello folks! More to add to my on-going Editor’s blog on the Burns songs for George Thomson! This past couple of weeks have been busy and productive. Lots of new reading on Burns’s songs...
More on Thomson
Hello! I realise that a couple of weeks have passed since my last blog! Work is moving ahead on the Thomson songs for our edition. As I mentioned in my first blog our RAs,...
Welcome to the world of Burns and George Thomson
Hello folks, Allow me to introduce myself….I am the editor of vols 4 & 5 of the new Oxford Works of Robert Burns and my work on this edition constitutes the last part of...
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