explanations' markup.Create an account to credit all your contributions to your name, receive Take it away, Sir James Macmillan!And here’s an extract of Sir James’s arrangement of ‘Hirta’ for high violin, viola and cello:And here’s an extract of Craig Armstrong’s arrangement of ‘Stac Lee’.Unfortunately Trevor Morrison died in 2012. To celebrate 60 years since the National Trust for Scotland began managing St Kilda, a collection of songs have been released, inspired by the dual World Heritage Site.. Taking the songs back to St Kilda. But the captain and his first mate clearly have experience with tricky cargo:After 4 hours from Skye,the piano coming ashore for Sir James MacMillan performance of The Lost Songs of St Kilda.Although St Kilda was evacuated in 1930, it is today home to some temporary residents, including students studying the feral sheep and Scottish National Trust staff. 00:44 Mins. Given that folk songs are handed down from generation to generation, it was assumed that the culture of St Kilda died off as its tiny population became assimilated into mainland Scottish society. interesting and valuable. Classic FM was invited to attend, along with a St Kilda descendant, composer Sir James MacMillan - and a flat-pack piano.By the way, here's the boat we're going to cross 40-odd miles of Atlantic Ocean from Skye to St Kilda in:Bear in mind that a month of bad weather had meant the captain had only been able to go to St Kilda six times in the whole of August (which is supposedly the best time to travel to the islands).As it turned out, we got lucky. As Sir James says: "So far nobody recognises the songs. Does it mean anything special hidden The sea was (relatively) calm and even the dolphins came out to escort us:Unloading the piano from a little dinghy onto the quayside at St Kilda was a precarious operation. an account. Each song is named after an island or rock in the St Kilda archipelago.So, how best to celebrate the rediscovery of the music of an abandoned island than to go back there and perform a gig? Oh when the Saints, go marching in, Oh when the Saints go marching in, Oh how I want to be with St Kilda. In 1852, 36 islanders had left for Australia and the population of St Kilda dropped to around 70; by the 1911 census the population was only 74, and 10 years later was 71. 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The emigration from St Kilda had begun many years before. The teacher, determined to preserve the music of his lost home, sat the boy down and taught him the songs of St Kilda.Sixty years later, nearing the end of his life in the care home, Trevor would entertain his fellow residents with these simple songs.But they would have been lost if a volunteer at the care home, recognising the importance of the songs, hadn't had the foresight to go out and buy a £3 microphone with which to record the music.These eight songs, played on an old care home piano, are now being released on an album, The Lost Songs of St Kilda, alongside arrangements of the tunes by Scottish composers Sir James Macmillan, Craig Armstrong, Rebecca Dale, Christopher Duncan and Francis Macdonald (who is also the drummer of indie band Teenage Fanclub). They are unknown, so they could be from St Kilda. Now, after 86 years, the music of St Kilda has been discovered and recorded in a Scottish care home by an elderly resident who was taught piano by a resident of St Kilda. Even if they’re not it doesn’t matter. 9 September 2016, 00:18 | Updated: 12 January 2017, 15:55.When a volunteer in an Edinburgh care home heard an elderly man playing folk music on the piano, it started a journey that would lead to the 'lost songs' of St Kilda being performed on the abandoned island for the first time in nearly a century.St Kilda is the most isolated inhabited island group in the UK; it's 40 miles west of Scotland's Isle of Lewis, the outermost of the Outer Hebrides.

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