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Hip hop music in the Outer Hebrides developed as a small but distinctive element of the islands’ modern cultural landscape.

Context: Graphic map of UK and Neil Oliver's introduction to the Hebrides Coast programme, continuing to opening titles, this is also used over the graphic map. MUSIC COMPOSED & PERFORMED FOR COAST BY ...

The commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot was the unifying theme to this programme from the Hebrides Ensemble. The figure of the lovelorn clown was present both in the music and on stage as Pierrot ...

It was a typically enterprising, wide-ranging, provocative programme from the Hebrides Ensemble, conveyed in wonderfully fresh, vivid performances. There was a sizeable audience to experience the trio ...

"It is the most personal thing I've done," said Mahler of Das Lied von der Erde. He wrote the group of six orchestral songs at the painful end of his life – the previous summer he'd lost his daughter ...