Alec Hurley, born on this day (probably!) in 1871, is mostly remembered for being Marie Lloyd’s second husband. He was also a music hall performer in his own right, however, and I recently stumbled across a song of his in … Continue reading
Where does a MusiCB3 blogger go on holiday? To visit a musically significant piece of furniture of course!
Marie Lloyd died on the 7th October 1922. Her funeral a few days later was attended by thousands of mourners, and was described by T. S. Eliot as “a ceremony which surprised even warmest admirers”. To mark the centenary month … Continue reading
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A warm welcome back to our students and staff, and especially to all our new graduate and undergraduate students. The Pendlebury Library of Music has had a busy start to term and it’s been great to be able to welcome … Continue reading
As we have remarked before on MusiCB3, it is sometimes the case that a piece of music is interesting mainly for the snippet of history it illustrates. Particularly with the Victorian song collection, it is often not just about the … Continue reading
I stumbled across this the other day, whilst searching for something else: It sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole…
One of the practicalities of storing a lot of scores, as we do here at MusiCB3, is that you have to make the best possible use of the space you have. For us, that involves grouping things together according to … Continue reading
My latest earworm is all the fault of Stranger Things. Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running up that Hill has been in the charts again lately, since featuring in a recent episode of the Netflix sci-fi drama series, Stranger Things. This … Continue reading
I’ve decided that it might be a nice idea to highlight a particular item each month that has caught my eye in the Pendlebury’s collection. In these quieter summer months, I’ve been finding myself primarily cataloguing some of the rare … Continue reading
I spent quite a bit of my spare time during lockdown learning to play the lute. So naturally, I was excited when I discovered that Cambridge has some extraordinary lute manuscripts in its collection. I’ll highlight a few of the … Continue reading
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