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Gordon Duncan was one of Scotland's most innovative and skilled pipers. His compositions once thought to be so avant-garde have been adopted by pipers across the spectrum are now heard in top-notch piping competitions.
The ‘folk scene’ has an immature attitude to music criticism and, for the good of us all, everyone needs to grow up, the reviewed, or at least those who take their side against critics, and the reviewers, too.
You've been booking yourself, or maybe a friend's been helping, and you feel you've got something to offer and that your career is starting to happen. What's the next step?
A lecture by Anna-Wendy Stevenson about her grandfather composer Ronald Stevenson delivered at The Swannanoa Gathering, Warren Wilson College, North Carolina July 2005.
The Scots Magazine is the world's most widely-read Scottish interest publication. First published in 1739, The Scots Magazine has evolved into a colourful, authoritative, thought-provoking monthly periodical with many thousands of readers worldwide.
Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland since 1437 and is the seat of the Scottish Parliament. The city was one of the major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, earning it the nickname Athens of the North.