Dunvegan Pipe Band - 1986 Medley

3rd place medley performance from the 2015 G3 Chicago Highland Games

Protect and Serve Medley - Chicago 2015

On 13 March 1996, a man walked into the Dunblane (Scotland) Primary School armed with several revolvers. He fired his weapons 109 times with an alternating combination of full-metal-jacket and hollow-point ammunition killing sixteen children and one adult before killing himself.

The bells of Dunblane cathedral rang a long tribute to the victims. Pipe Major Robert Mathieson composed a slow air for the Highland Bagpipes in memoriam of the event. He entitled it "The Bells of Dunblane" because the silence of the people and the sound of the cathedral bells seemed much stronger than any spoken word.  This tune is played quite frequently by many bands.

In the days after the shooting in Dunblane, another beautiful tribute was scored by Charlie Glendinning.  Charlie spent nearly thirty years as Pipe Sergeant of the City of Washington Pipe Band (a.k.a. Denny and Dunipace, a.k.a. Scottish and Irish Imports).  He scored many tunes which can be found in the Glendinning Collection of Bagpipe Music -- which can be purchased @ http://www.moonstarmusic.com/book.html 

Wake and District proudly plays Charlie’s air as part of our G3 ‘Protect and Serve’ medley.  Dunblane, by Charlie Glendinning – one of many #TunesWePlay

Dunblane - by Charlie Glendinning

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
So you've aged another year
Your demise is drawing near
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Long ago your hair turned grey
Now it's falling out, they say
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
The zillion candles on your cake
A roaring bonfire they do make
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
You love your children, yes you do
Baked or broiled or in a stew
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Just be glad the friends you've got
Haven't found out you-know-what
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday

Song of the Volga Boatmen

Dunblane - by Charlie Glendinning 
Purchase the Scottish Rant CD @ 
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Rant-City-Washington-Pipe/dp/B00004UFD4 

Dunblane

The Sands Of Kuwait was composed following the Gulf War By LCpl Gordon MacKenzie, to commemorate the involvement of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders(Seaforth & Camerons), in the conflict.

Three Scots from the Queen's Own Highlanders -- Privates John Lang, from Nairn; Martin Ferguson, from Inverlochy, Fort William; and Neil Donald, from Forres -- died when their battle group was attacked by an A-10 tankbuster aicraft. It mistook Warrier armored vehicles for Iraqi tanks.

Fusiliers Paul Atkinson, Conrad Cole, Richard Gillespie, Kevin Leech, Lee Thompson and Stephen Satchell were also killed.

It was war`s the worst single incident of ``friendly fire`` deaths.

Like many pipe tunes  - it's haunting, yet holds such sad history.

The Sands of Kuwait

his track is from the 2007 album Enjoy The Ride, from the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music, Sgoil Chiùil ne Gàidhealtachd, in Plockton.

The tunes are by three of Scotland’s best contemporary traditional-style composers and players.

'The Sands of Kuwait' is by Gordon MacKenzie, 'The Aird Ranters' is by Fred Morrison and 'Nelson Mandela’s Welcome to Glasgow' is by Blair Douglas.

The musicians say, 'We put this set together for the 2006 Showcase concert, but we got great mileage out of it for the rest of the year.

'The Sands of Kuwait’ was written for Gordon MacKenzie’s colleagues in the Queen’s Own Highlanders who were killed in the first Gulf War.'

Sands of Kuwait (Set)

For Our Fallen - composed by Dr. Alan Armstrong
played on piano and practice chanter

For Our Fallen -- by Dr. Alan Armstrong

 written by John Cairns for the Canadian Forces Millennium Music Competition (in 2000) and was selected as the winning tune to be played at the unveiling of the Canadian Monument for the Unknown Soldier.

Lament For The Fallen

In honor of Season 7 of Game of Thrones airing tonight - we wanted to share this bagpipe setting of the Slow/Aire waltz theme song arranged by R. Djawadi / arr: D. Freiberg of the Twin Cities Metro pipe band #ToneIsComoing

Game of Thrones - Tone is Coming

Co-commissioned by Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs.  The Diggers’ Requiem was developed by Christopher Latham with the assistance of Peggy Polias & Ellie Cumming.

Incorporating Nigel Westlake’s The Glass Soldier commissioned by Don Farrands in memory of his grandfather Nelson H. Ferguson, in honour of his contribution to art and his virtuous life.

Orchestral score - April 2018 version - for performance in Amiens, April 2018

Overture: dedicated to all military and civilian victims of war Elena Kats-Chernin, The Silent Field *

Movement 1: REQUIEM AETERNAM, for Fromelles George Frideric Handel, “Dead March” from Saul *

Movement 2: KYRIE, for Pozières Frederick Septimus Kelly, The Somme Lament * (written October 28th 1916, two weeks before his death in the Somme)

Movement 3: TUBA MIRUM, for Bapaume Nigel Westlake/Alex Lithgow, Entering Bapaume †

Movement 4: LACRIMOSA, for Bullecourt Elena Kats-Chernin, The Fields of Bullecourt

Movement 5: VIRTUS ET CONSTANTIA, for the WWI Palestine Campaign Richard Mills, The Charge of Beersheba

Movement 6: DIES IRAE, the Third Battle of Ypres Nigel Westlake, The Age of Destruction †

Movement 7: SANCTUS FOR ICARUS, The Fall of Aces Nigel Westlake, Wooden Birds Fly Over the Valley of the Somme †

Movement 8: BENEDICTUS, Protecting Amiens Nigel Westlake, Symphonies of Glass and Stone †

Movement 9: LIBERA ME, for Villers-Bretonneux Nigel Westlake, I Was Blinded - But Now I See †

[Movement 10 omitted in April 2018 version]

Movement 11: PIE JESU, the Liberation of Péronne Graeme Koehne, 
Pie Jesu: Prayer of Saint Joan of Arc

Movement 12: LUX AETERNA & IN PARADISUM, for Bellenglise and Montbrehain – the piercing of the Hindenburg Line Ross Edwards, Eternal Light (incorporating WW1 Pipe Master John Grant’s Lament 
for the Pipers Lost in the Great War)

Encore Christopher Latham, Pie Jesu II: Prayer for Peace

(† from The Glass Soldier) (*arranged by Christopher Latham)

Orchestra
2 Flutes (1st & 2nd doubling on Piccolo)
2 Oboes (2nd doubling on Cor Anglais)
2 Clarinets in B flat (st1 doubling on Clarinet in A, Clarinet in E flat; 2nd doubling on Bass Clarinet)
2 Bassoons (2nd doubling on Contrabassoon)
4 Horns in F
3 Trumpets in C
2 Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (4 players):
2 Concert Bass Drums, Piatti, Suspended Cymbals (& Double Bass bow), Crotales (2 Octaves), Triangle, Thundersheet, Wind Machine, 2 Snare Drums, Xylophone, Tam Tam, 4 Tom Toms (Large to Small), Wind Gong, 2 Air Raid Sirens (Mid Range & Low), Tubular Bells, Marimba, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Mounted Splash Cymbal, Glass Chimes, Metal Chimes, Woodblock, 3 Temple Blocks, Tenor Drum, Large Anvil.
2 Suspended Empty Shell Casings (or similar “Junk Metal”), to be played by Solo Trumpet and Accordion in Movement 6
Harp
SOLOISTS
1. Trumpet in C (also Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn), also doubles on Suspended Empty Shell Casing in Movement 6
2. Accordion (amplified), also doubles on Suspended Empty Shell Casing in Movement 6
3. Piano (doubling on Celeste)
4. Soprano (amplified)
5. Mezzo-Soprano (amplified)
6. Bagpipes

SATB Choir (Audience to also sing in Encore)

Violin I (Solo Violin I line in Encore)
Violin II
Viola
Cello (Solo Cello line in Movement 7)
Double Bass

Pre-recorded material (for Movement 12)

The Diggers' Requiem

One of the advantages of attending Winter Storm in Kansas City is getting to watch Fred Morrison perform.  Fred plays with pure JOY and inspires happiness.  Thanks for this tune Fred -- the Kansas City Hornpipe.  "See you on the other side."

Kansas City Hornpipe - Fred Morrison

Sharing another amazing track from Fred Morrison performing at Winter Storm in Kansas City on 19 January 2019.

Hard Drive

Wake & District Public Safety Pipes and Drums
Crags of Tumbledown Mountain
Recorded at the Scotland County Games as the G4 group marched up to the line

Crags of Tumbledown Mountain

Wake & District Public Safety Pipes and Drums
G4 Medley
Scotland County Highland Games, 2012

G4 2012 Medley Scotland County

Based in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina --  the Wake & District Public Safety Pipes and Drums (Wake & District) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission to improve piping and drumming quality, culture and tradition in the region; we will not compromise people and the art.  Established  in 2006, our program honors those who sacrifice their lives while serving others; FOR OUR FALLEN is everything we stand for. 

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