Name: Glen Artney by Dmytro Morykit
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: Reflecting the beautiful Glen Artney near Comrie which is a picture postcard view of Scotland yet has a tragic history of the Scottish Clearances. It is a vast and dramatic landscape scarred with poignant echoes from the people who once lived and worked there.

Spanish - Marita Thomsen

English - Setting For Piano, Dmytro Morykit And Hazel Cameron

Icelandic - Anna Sigurdardottir

Skjelv Du  Klyve Molvaer 8 Languages

Ukrainian - Maria Galaiko

A Place to be

This piece was written as the main theme for a prospective film called "Tango of Death". The story is set in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, during the years of World War II. Musicians of the Opera Theater Orchestra and their Jewish conductor Jacob Mund are taken as prisoners by the Nazi soldiers and are being put in the Janowski concentration camp in order to play music for other prisoners and their wardens. Within the story, Tango of Death is an original piece written by the conductor himself, that the orchestra is ordered to play during the executions. The film is based on true events.
Conductor - Maestro Roman Kofman (Beethoven Orchester Bonn, National Philharmonic of Ukraine)
Performed by the musicians of Kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra.
Composed and produced by Dmytro Gordon.
Artwork is the last (and the only one) photo of the real-life orchestra with conductor Jacob Mund in the center.

Tango Of Death

Reflecting the beautiful Glen Artney near Comrie which is a picture postcard view of Scotland yet has a tragic history of the Scottish Clearances. It is a vast and dramatic landscape scarred with poignant echoes from the people who once lived and worked there.

Glen Artney

This week’s Gaelic Word of the Week is a rather unusual one. We are going to be teaching you how to pronounce a word both correctly and incorrectly!

This is the Gaelic Word for eagle – Iolaire.

This is spelt IOLAIRE. While it is pronounced iolaire in Gaelic, you may recognise it from a mispronunciation of the name as “Iolaire”.

This was the name of an ill-fated ship, the HMY Iolaire. HMY Iolaire was carrying Hebridean sailors who had fought in the First World War back to the Isle of Lewis – Eilean Leòdhais. Early on New Year’s day 1919, the Iolaire hit rocks near Stornoway – Steòrnabhagh - and sank.  Of the 205 who perished, 181 were islanders. This was the worst peacetime disaster involving a British ship since the Titanic in 1912.

If you would like to learn more about this tragic story, come along and see the play Iolaire at the Scottish Parliament – Pàrlamaid na h-Alba - at 6pm on Wednesday 16 March.
The premiere of the play of the Iolaire disaster of 1919 is performed and sung by Gaelic learners at Tynecastle High School and Stenhouse Primary School in Edinburgh- Dùn Èideann. 

The 19-strong cast of pupils will premiere the production in Edinburgh before it tours the Western Isles – na h-Eileanan Siar - in Spring 2016.
The production is 30 minutes in duration and is performed in English – Beurla - but contains 20 key Gaelic words that are used throughout.  The production is funded by Bòrd na Gàidhlig.

To arrange tickets, email eventsandexhibitions@scottish.parliament.uk or phone  0131 348 6933

This week’s Gaelic Word of the Week is Iolaire – eagle. 

Iolaire.

Iolaire.

This Gaelic Word of the Week has been read by Alasdair MacCaluim, Gaelic Development Officer. 


Gaelic Word of the Week 138 - Iolaire - Eagle

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Glen Artney

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