20thCentury – Page 2

Small girls in a pink bedroom covered with pop posters

Review: Since Yesterday – the Untold Story of Scotland’s Girlbands

16 December 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Still from Since Yesterday, photo credit Euan Robertson A packed Dundee Contemporary Arts centre was the venue for those … Read more

Songs of the Hebrides album cover with water colour suggesting waves and heather colours

Review: Marjory Kennedy Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides: a virtual concert-lecture

2 December 2024 by Joan Busby

Soundyngs editor writes: recently I visited Joan Busby, and a cup of tea turned into a wonderful private 2 hour … Read more

An ornate room with a vaulted decorated plaster ceiling, a large pipe organ, and seats laid out for a wedding

Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses

21 October 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes. Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more

A house plaque with Ronald Centre 1913 to 1973 Composer lived here

Review: Ronald Center (1913-73) : Centenary and Beyond

30 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

This week’s post on a talented but undeservedly neglected composer has been prompted by some recent chat with Jamie Reid … Read more

Muscular young man in a Scottish landscape with a tartan plaid on his shoulders, with a legend describing the Banks and Braes of Scotland, and a tartan frame

The Sound of Scotland – what is ‘Scottish film music’?

23 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Advert for Rob Roy (Westminster Films, dir. W. P. Kelling, 1922), in The Bioscope, Thursday 21st September 1922, p.7. … Read more

6 rock musicians on a stage at the end of a concert, waving goodbye

Highland Rock Bands in late 20th Century Scotland

24 June 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Runrig’s final concert, ‘The Last Dance’ in Stirling, August 2018. Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia … Read more