Talk:Hugh S. Roberton

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i have a vinyl copy of an album by the glasgow orpheus choir, from 1972, and it includes a bio of the choir written by hugh s. roberton "in 1953, 2 years after the GOC disbanded". any source on his year of death then? either wiki or EMI is wrong : ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.90.75 (talk) 21:20, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Dead link

The dead link in the references section originally pointed, I think, to a Special Collections catalogue entry (for a manuscript?) at the University of Glasgow. The University's website was redesigned to a new 'streamlined' format (with less information) a year or two ago, which is what probably caused the link to no longer work (it now redirects to the catalogue search). The Wayback Machine simply says that the given URL isn't valid (so there's no archived copy to fall back on). It's possible that with the two search operators contained in the broken URL we might be able to search the new catalogue (once we work out what fields those two search operators are from), but I don't have time to attempt this myself at the moment. Cynical (talk) 23:22, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

His Choral group.

My private piano/theory/organ teacher played a 78 RPM record of "All in the April evening" one day back in the 1970s. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir went flat and flatter all through the recording. What a joke. My teacher touched a key on his piano as they went down and down. I cannot remember the exact details now, all those years later, but the piece is written in E flat. By the time they finished, it was pretty close to C. And that recording was published. And that man got a knighthood. It is a nice composition, I will admit. But his choir sucked very badly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.204.160.140 (talk) 19:01, 24 April 2019 (UTC)