'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' - Red Note
Hugh MacDiarmid’s poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, is set to music of huge imagination and vibrancy by Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney and performed by one of Scotland’s finest contemporary music ensembles, Red Note. This is a night of humour, inebriation, beauty, politically charged comment and wild musical and literary invention. Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney sets Hugh MacDiarmid's great poem to music of great imagination and vibrancy, to be performed by one of Scotland's finest contemporary music ensembles, Red Note. Written by MacDiarmid in 1926, the poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, explores the state of Scotland, taking in politically charged comment, wild literary invention, humour, inebriation and lyrical beauty. With his background in the European avant-garde, and a love of traditional Scottish folk music and jazz, Sweeney is an ideal candidate to capture the many sides of MacDiarmid: modernist and traditionalist, nationalist and internationalist. An SAC Tune up Tour.Date: 08/06/10
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 50
Type: Music Contemporary