Composing
As a composer Lindsay has specialised in uniting the bagpipe and orchestral traditions. His PhD thesis (2007) concerned creation of a new technique of composing of ‘classical’ music, manntaireachd, which unites pibroch and orchestral music. He has written the world’s first ‘bagpipe opera’, Tulsa, to a libretto in Scots by Dr Tom Hubbard, concerning the Tulsa Race Riots in 1921 and in particular the part played in trying to prevent this by Charles William Kerr, and three other operas. He has also composed a symphony ‘From Beyond’ using manntaireachd and a chamber symphony, likewise using manntaireachd.
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Famous quotes containing the word composing:
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)