HUGH Morrison was an engineer who thought the Isle of Lewis needed a new transport system and proposed building the world’s longest cable car system, one that would stretch almost the entire length of the island from Barvas to Stornoway and south through Lochs to Tarbert. An Lanntair is now launching a new exhibition inspired by his idea by Philippa Thomas and Hector MacInnes.
Morrison said: “If ever a vehicle was driven in defiance of God’s will, it was across the Barvas moor”, and at the centre of the show, entitled Suspension and Disbelief, will be a completed restoration of the last surviving HCTC cable car gondola.
An Lanntair’s Head of Visual Arts and Literature Roddy Murray said: “Just when you think you are beginning to draw a bearing on local history, something comes along that shakes your complacency and makes you marvel at the innovation and ingenuity of previous generations. Hector and Philippa are to be thanked and congratulated for having shone a light onto this extraordinary project, which had inexplicably slipped out of the historical record."
A public opening with the artists will take place at An Lanntair on November 18 at 5pm.
lanntair.com
COUNTRY/FOLK trio Applewood Road are to play a concert in Glasgow in November. The trio, featuring Emily Barker, Amy Speace and Amber Rubarth, appears at the Classic Grand on November 17.
The group first got together to make music in September 2014 and within 24 hours had created the song that would become their collective name.
fallenangelsclub.com
SCOTTISH Opera welcomes a new group of Emerging Artists for the 2016/17 Season, offering young artists a period of full-time work to help launch their careers.
The Elizabeth Salvesen Costume Trainee is Beth Hicks, who has a first class degree in Costume and Performance Design from Bournemouth Arts University.
Edinburgh-born mezzo soprano Emma Kerr, The Robertson Trust Scholarship Emerging Artist, trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and was a Glyndebourne Festival Opera Jerwood Young Artist 2015. In Scottish Opera’s 2015/16 Season, she featured in Così fan tutte, Rusalka and The Mikado.
Tenor Elgan Llyr Thomas, from North Wales, was Nemorino in Scottish Opera’s The Elixir of Love, while soprano Hazel McBain, from Glasgow, sang the role of Giannetta. Composer-in-residence Lliam Paterson, from Aberdeenshire, was a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as an accompanist and repetiteur, and director Jim Manganello, from Detroit, co-founded Fratellanza Theatre and is also a movement director and actor. Repetiteur Maria Struckova is the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Emerging Artist.
scottishopera.org.uk
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