Songs associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie and Jacobite rebellion at heart of Inverness Choral Society’s spring concert
Songs associated with the Jacobite rebellion will be performed by the Inverness Choral Society at its spring concert.
Entitled In Every Corner Sing, it will be held at the Drumossie Hotel on April 13.
Given it is close in date to the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden on April 16 1746 - and being held near the battlefield - the choir is performing ‘I Landed with Seven Men’.
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In the short cantata, five Scots songs associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite rebellion are placed in their historical context with short narrations.
They include Charlie is My Darling, Wi’ a Hundred Pipers, the Skye Boat Song and Will Ye No’ Come Back Again? using the recognised traditional tunes arranged by Ken Johnston while the song, Johnnie Cope, has a new setting.
The narrator will be James Ross.
The concert, conducted by Gordon Tocher, will open with Schubert’s Mass in G and will also feature a choral medley of highlights from Bernstein's score for the musical, West Side Story.
The concert will conclude with Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams from which the concert title is derived.
Tickets are currently available from choir members or via www.invernesschoral.org.uk.
