Robert Burns Song Symposium 2014
21st March 2014
University of Glasgow
On the afternoon of Friday 21st March 2014, the 'Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century' project team hosted their second symposium. The focus of the event was Burns's acitivites as a song-writer and collector. Burns's involvement with James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum and George Thomson's collections of National Airs is a major research focus for the project as we produce the first three volumes of the new Oxford University Press edition of the Works of Robert Burns.
The 'Burns Song Symposium' this March gave Burnsians a chance to hear about the new work currently being undertaken by editors Murray Pittock and Kirsteen McCue. Pauline Mackay, new lecturer in Robert Burns Studies here at Glasgow, talked about Burns's bawdy songs, which has been a key focus of her own research to date. And our new Research Assistants on the project, Ralph McLean and Vivien Williams, introduced some of our new interactive resources. Moreover, we were joined by one of Scotland's foremost interpreters of Burns, Sheena Wellington, who performed a number of Burns's songs.
Programme
The Merry Muses of Caledonia - Pauline Mackay
‘Songs for George Thomson’ - Kirsteen McCue
‘Choral Settings Project’ - Vivien Williams
The Scots Musical Museum - Murray Pittock
Launch of website songs by Ralph McLean and performance by Sheena Wellington