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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness
This popular short piece by Sir Peter Maxell Davies, who died last month, is taken from The Yellow Cake Revue.
This was a collection of cabaret-style pieces that he performed with Eleanor Bron, as part of the 1980 St Magnus Festival, in protest at plans to mine uranium ore in Orkney.
Farewell to Stromness is played here by Ezra Williams.
George Mackay Brown said Stromness "is but a tumbling stone wave, a network of closes, a marvel of steps from the seaweed up to the granite of Brinkie's Brae".
I've been there and he's right.
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