Sentences with phrase «scottish ballad»

Philipsz sings three disjointed renditions of an old Scottish ballad, and it's lovely, but the installation — spartan, industrial — saps some of the atmosphere.

Singing variations of «Lowlands» a haunting 16th - century Scottish ballad which tells the tale of a drowned lover, the slightly different versions of the song could originally be heard from the three bridges of the Clyde in central Glasgow during the city's International Visual Arts Festival.

But in the end, it was 45 - year - old Glaswegian artist Susan Philipsz, with recordings of three different versions of a traditional Scottish ballad, who bagged the Turner Prize last night.

In this work, the artist sings three slightly different versions of a sixteenth - century Scottish ballad titled Lowlands Away; a haunting lament about a man drowned at sea who returns to his lover to tell her of his death.

In her gallery at Tate Britain there's nothing but three large black speakers out of which comes her voice singing a 16th - century Scottish ballad called «Lowlands» in three different parts, a piece she originally installed on the underside of three bridges in Glasgow.

In the notes he wrote for Biograph (1985), he explains that the melody was influenced by an early Scottish ballad he had heard on an old 78 and could not get out of his head.

Instead of «Just as I Am,» I hear a traditional Scottish ballad as I walk down the aisle.

By the end of the evening, researchers from both countries were hugging each other and belting out Scottish ballads together.

In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard - boiled poems of twentieth - century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims - from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men - ever to be immortalized in verse.

Not exact matches

Back when I was in college, these two Scottish lads (Charlie and Craig Reid) sort of appeared on the radio with this bawling - awesome march / anthem / ballad called «I'm gonna be (500 miles)», and it's a song that you have to hear to appreciate.

As Andrew Fletcher, an 18th century Scottish patriot, once boldly proclaimed, «If one were permitted to make all the ballads one need not care who should make the laws of a nation.»

The title is perfect: «Distant Voices, Still Lives» writer - director Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's 1932 novel of life in the Scottish countryside is like an old familiar tune, a lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power, and just a handful of off - key notes.

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly most recently served as narrator for the Walt Disney Animation Studios short «The Ballad of Nessie» and appeared in «Gulliver's Travels.»

Based on a ballad recorded by Sir Walter Scott in the second volume of his The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, the tale is one of love, intrigue and violence.

Her choices in music veer from 15th century Scottish laments, to historic Irish and American folk ballads, to more modern choices, such as Nirvana and The Velvet Underground.