Landscapes and Dances, Songs She Scored Out
Don't miss this premiere performance of award winning Scottish composer and Celtic Harpist Ailie Robertson’s new work about Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh on 26th October.
About Landscapes and Dances, Songs She Scored Out
At the heart of this concert programme, charting the history of female composers’ relationships with authorship and ‘place’, is the premiere performance of award winning Scottish composer and Celtic Harpist Ailie Robertson’s new work about Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh. This is performed by award winning GAIA Duo (Katrina Lee – violin, Alice Allen – cello) and is the fifth of seven new music commissions by St Mary’s Music School’s Seven Hills Project. Seven composers connected to Scotland have each been commissioned to write a work inspired by the topography of one of seven hills of Edinburgh and the corresponding ‘hill’ poem by Alexander McCall Smith.
Interpolating works by rediscovered American English composer Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979) Lullaby and Grotesque and pioneering English Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 – 1994) Theme and Variations are dances by historical Scottish Female Composers of the 1850s. GAIA Duo researched these composers with help from Dr Aaron McGregor and the National Library of Scotland during their time as Ensemble in Residence (2019 – 2021) with Chamber Music Scotland. Often these composers were anonymised - their names were scored out with black pen. St Mary’s Music School pupils will be joining GAIA in the performance of these strathspeys and reels by composers
Programme includes:
Rebecca Clarke - Lullaby and Grotesque - performed by GAIA Duo
Elizabeth Maconchy - Theme and Variations - performed by GAIA Duo
Ailie Robertson - New Work Inspired by Craiglockhart Hill - performed by GAIA Duo
Historic Scottish Female Composers strathspeys and reels - performed by GAIA Duo and St Mary’s Music School pupils.
Image credit: Lindsay Perth
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