Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Pierpont Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, and Owen D. Young, who was in Canada, advised M. Moreau by cable whom to invite from the U. S. Europe today knows better than to expect the President of the U. S. or Federal Reserve Bank Governor Roy Archibald Young to take such responsibility. Messrs. Morgan and Young went to the original Young Plan Conference (and dominated it) backed only by their enormous prestige...
...been a Scot he could have said "the bagpipe," which never fails to rally battling Scots. But Scotland, which has been shouting, for centuries about her great men, has never produced a Bonaparte, so the epigram remains to be said...
There developed in Scotland a warlike form of music called in Gaelic Piobaireachd in English, pibroch. It became the national classical music and had many variations. These were taught on the Island of Skye by one John M'Crummen, professor at the Skye Bagpipe-College. His pupils, illiterate Highland lads, could not read music so were taught verbal note-equivalents, thus...
When the clans gathered in old Scotland there were always bagpiping contests. At every public meeting the piper played to enliven the audience. In 18th century football matches, each team had its bag- piper who entered the field and played the pibroch during the game to inspirit the players. When the clans broke up the art died down, and for many a year was pursued only by individual musicians...
...Banff Festival was Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, composer, concert-singer of Scottish music, famed for her rediscovery of Hebridean folk songs. She comes from a family known in the lowlands as the "Singing Kennedys" and has spent many years in the Hebrides Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland, learning the songs of the native crofters and singing them to exiled Scots in the colonies. She traveled to Banff from Scotland especially for the festival...