Since his concerto debut as a teenager at the Opening Night Gala of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, he has collaborated as soloist with modern- and period-instrument orchestras in the States and Europe and has appeared in recital all over the world.ĬD recordings include “In Sara Levy’s Salon” with the Raritan Players (period instruments), the complete piano-violin sonatas of Brahms with pianist Kai-Ching Chang, and the violin-piano sonatas of Karén Khanagov with Anastasia Abu Bakar.Ĭurrently teaching at the University of St Andrews Music Centre, Ben previously held posts at the Oklahoma City University Oklahoma Baptist Unviersity, and Dickinson College, as well as positions at the New England Conservatory, Cairn University, and Cecil College.Īctivities are suitable for adults and for accompanied children. You are welcome to catch a few moments of them as you go about your day or stay and soak up the whole experience.īenjamin Shute (DMA, BM, New England Conservatory Diplom KA, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg) has enjoyed a multifaceted career as modern and period violinist, musicologist, composer, and teacher. For Outwith, American baroque violinist Benjamin Shute will play them from memory amid the sublime acoustic of Dunfermline Abbey. Her debut book Threads of Life was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and winner of the Saltire First Book of the Year.įree, drop in performance of Bach’s collection of majestic sonatas and partitas, rarely heard in their entirety.
In this talk, held in the appropriate setting of Dunfermline’s award winning craft shop Buttons and Blethers, Clare Hunter exquisitely blends history, politics and memoir. From her lavishly embroidered gowns as the prospective wife of the French Dauphin to the fashion dolls she used to encourage a Marian style at the Scottish court and the subversive messages she embroidered in captivity for her supporters, Mary used textiles to advance her political agenda, affirm her royal lineage and tell her own story. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons.
In sixteenth-century Europe women’s voices were suppressed and silenced. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom. **Shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards** At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red.
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