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...
Scottish inventor John Lodgie Baird demonstrated the first working television that used cathode ray tubes to mechanically scan pictures displayed on the screen. Called CRTs, they remained wildly popular until the 21st century, when LCD and other electronic displays outpaced them. Sony shut down...
3 Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song Mary Ellen Brown When, sometime in 1825 or 1826, a Scottish ballad and song collector and editor wrote a heading in his collecting notebook titled 'old singing women', he was doing two things: first of all he was remindin...
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...
In the animated film Brave, a young Scottish princess named Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) defies an age-old custom, causing chaos in her kingdom. Determined to carve her own path in life, she unknowingly unleashes a curse and must rely on her bravery and archery skills...
(and would never have met him), and Wallace himself was a member of the Scottish gentry, a far cry from the dirty, hairy farmer we meet in Mel Gibson’s movie. Knowing all of that sort of ruins the experience of watching the movie, which feels less like a historical biopic and more...
Over the years Ryan has recorded with a number of influential artists, namely his playing appears on fellow Scottish fiddle champion Hanneke Cassel’s three albums Silver, For Reasons Unseen, and Dot the Dragon’s Eyes, as well as Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas’s recording Highlander’s ...
Fiddling and step (clog) dancing was introduced to Native peoples by French fur traders in the late 1600s and a century later by Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish trappers, lumberjacks, and homesteaders. Over the past two centuries, in the confines of family gatherings on remote reservations,...
He took my list of songs, arranged them. Oh and one thing, Meyerstein was smart enough to suggest, look I’ll pay for it and you can have it free of artist’s royalties for just the pressing fee, which was I believe three or five percent at the time. I thought, gee we got a ...
Scottish inventor John Lodgie Baird demonstrated the first working television that used cathode ray tubes to mechanically scan pictures displayed on the screen. Called CRTs, they remained wildly popular until the 21st century, when LCD and other electronic displays outpaced them. Sony shut down CRT...