Scottish Concert - A Celebration of Robert Burns

Описание: Sunita Staneslow with Uri Schleifer. A concert celebration of the life and times of the great Scottish bard, Robert Burns. The concert is free but contributions are appreciated. To support the musicians - please go to this link: http://contributions.sunitaharp.com
Program Below--
Ye Banks and Braes Traditional.
I have an arrangement in my book: Scottish Music for Flute and Harp www.folkharp.com

My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns, based on traditional sources. I have an arrangement in my book, Sea and Sky, solo harp music, www.folkharp.com

Jon Anderson, my Jo/ Glenlivet a set of tunes, the first is based on a Burns poem and Glenlivet is a Scottish reel. Both are in my Scottish Music for flute & harp book.

Fiddle Set- pipe tunes: March-- Father John MacMillan of Barra/ strathspey- Highland Harry/
reel-Mrs. MacLeod of Raasey

Burns poem: To a Haggis, Fred Schlomka/ cameo appearance

Green Grow the Rashes, Written in 1783 in Burns' commonplace book, and published in Poems in 1787. Later in 1787 it was published with music in The Scots Musical Museum, the first of Burns' poems to be set to music.

Highland Boat Song, Trad. Scottish, this is in my Sea &Sky book, www.folkharp.com

Wild Mountain Thyme / Flowers of Edinburgh The song, Wild Mountain Thyme was first recorded by Francis McPeake, in 1957 for the BBC series As I Roved Out. ... When interviewed on radio, Francis McPeake said it was based on a song he heard whilst travelling in Scotland, and he rewrote it later.
The Flowers of Edinburgh is a traditional Scottish Reel. A fiddle tune in my Scottish Music for Flute and Harp book, www.folkharp.com

Mairi's Wedding, also known as ‘The Lewis Bridal Song’ ,has been popular throughout the world since it was first written in 1934. Set to an old Scottish folk tune that was collected by the piper and composer Dr Peter A McLeod, the original words for the song were written in Gaelic by John Bannerman. A duet arrangement is in my Scottish book, www.folkharp.com

Auld Lang Syne the older Burns version. Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum in 1788 with the remark, "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man.
We based our performance on the arrangement by Kim Robertson in her book Scottish Ballads and Aires , published by Mel Bay.