Sir Peter Maxwell Davies : Farewell To Stromness / Yesnaby Ground
Genre: Classical
Category: Keyboard
Size: 5 pages
Instrumentation: Pf
Duration: 4:50
Composition Date: 1980
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Farewell to Stromness and Yesnaby Ground are piano interludees from 'The Yellow Cake Revue', a sequence of cabaret style numbers first performed at the St Magnus Festival, Orkney, by Eleanor Bron, with the composer at the piano, in June 1980.
'The Yellow Cake Revue' takes its name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.
Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1,500) would be two miles from the uranium mine's core, and the centre most threatened by pollution etc., Yesnaby, is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie.
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