Farewell to Stromness
Farewell to Stromness , also in The Yellow Cake Revue known is a Musical - Composition for a reciter and pianist of Peter Maxwell Davies .
Davies wrote the musical after it became publicly known that the Secretary of State for Scotland was planning to mine uranium (colloquially known as "Yellow Cake") near Stromness . The complete rejection of this project by the public as well as by the Council of the Orkneys (Orkney Islands Council) ultimately led to the abandonment of the project.
The musical consists of a series of songs and spoken texts. The third track, Farewell to Stromness, became one of Davies' most popular tracks and was arranged for various instruments. The musical was in 1980 on the occasion of the St. Magnus Festival with Eleanor Bron as a singer and Davies on piano in the Stromness Hotel premiered and reached 2,003 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
The individual titles
- Tourist Board Song: O come to sunny Warbeth
- Patriotic Song: You've heard of the man with the pace-maker
- Piano Interlude: Farewell to Stromness
- Recitation - Nuclear Job Interview 1: The Security Guard
- Uranium's Daughters' Dance: They said, when they'd extracted the uranium from the ore
- Recitation - Nuclear Job Interview 2: The Truck Driver
- Atlantic Breezes
- Recitation - Nuclear Job Interview 3: The Mental Healthworker
- Piano Interlude: Yesnaby Ground
- The Tourist Song: Have you heard of the terrorist suicide squad?
- The Triumph of the Cockroad: As earthquakes subsided
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sir Peter Maxwell Davies : Work Detail: The Yellow Cake Revue . MaxOpus.com. Retrieved June 28, 2011.