Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they argue Wales is, Glyn and his friends have put "The Voice of Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin and Aneurin. Welsh is one of the oldest of all living...
Beethoven: Twelve Scottish and Irish Songs (Richard Dyer-Bennet, tenor and instrumentalist; Dyer-Bennet Records). These rarely recorded songs are the fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy...
...Sceptre, Britain's challenger for the America's Cup, which was soundly thrashed by the U.S.'s Columbia off Newport last September, was sold at a cut-rate price (estimate: less than $42,000) to six Scottish friends of Designer David Boyd who are bent on proving eventually that there is nothing wrong with Sceptre that a little tinkering will not cure...
...Kansas City's Ivanhoe Temple, brethren of the Scottish Rite donned their fraternal regalia to honor 33rd Degree Member Harry S. Truman, 50 years a Freemason...
...Otello and Falstaff, and is essentially a choppy, ill-balanced synopsis. The Met's production, while brilliant in most respects, was faulted by some ludicrous details and a kind of Teutonic touch that is alien both to Verdi's Italian music and to Shakespeare's Scottish setting...