Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, thought to have first been performed in 1606, “The Scottish Play” explores the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was...
S 37172 Q Scottish Folk Songs (arr. Haydn & Beethoven). BAKER, MENUHIN, MALCOLM. A. Texts S 37193 Q Haydn: Cello Concertos in D & C. ROSTROPOVICH (cello & cond), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. A S 37256 Q Schumann: Cello Concerto; Bloch: Schelomo. ROSTROPOVICH; BERNSTEIN...
This album was a last-minute slap in the face of sorts – One discovered it only a couple of weeks back throughMike Yost’slist. One has no idea what their earlier music sounds like, and One doesn’t particularly care. Although a truncated form of what would have been...
The classic combination of bagpipes, whistle, and fiddle with a backdrop of guitar, mandola, and bodhran guarantees a most enjoyable experience for all fans of Scottish and Irish music. Molly’s Revenge has performed at many of the top folk festivals and performing arts events in the USA ...
#60. Scottish terrier Canva #60. Scottish terrier - Last year's rank: #58 (down 2) Scottish terriers were all the rage in the United States during the 1930s. They even charmed President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose Scottie, Fala, was called the "most photographed dog in the world." ...
And the fourth verse is a nice example of blues adapting lyrics from Victorian parlor poetry: Jefferson’s line is a paraphrase of “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,” the repeated tag-line of an immensely popular poem from 1865 by the Scottish-American ...
Here’s an intriguing biography of a 19th century Scottish missionary, Alexander Somerville. The following passage is illustrative of the visitation evangelism promoted in the Church of Scotland and also performed by his colleagues, the Bonar brothers and Robert Murray M’Cheyne: The Students’ Missio...
Donovan is a Scottish guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for developing and popularizing a distinctive and eclectic style that blended many genres, such as folk, jazz, pop, calypso, and psychedelic rock. Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwr...
I couldn’t help singing scottish songs to myself. Although I went to school in the small town of Brampton in the very north of England many of our teachers had names like Steele, Douglas, Bell, Thompson, Armstrong and Curr – all good scots border names. So we were introduced as ...
(Note that the numbers that appear beside the original entries don’t indicate any sort of rank, but refer solely to order of publication). THE CANONICAL LIST OF 366: 3-Iron[Bin-jip] (2004)– A homeless young Korean man trains himself to be invisible so he can romance another man’s ...