The Hebrides Ensemble sure knows how to put a concert together. This one was a brilliant, inspiring construction, with themes and ideas refracting back and forth between the pieces, highlighting ...

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NOT everything is new about New Zealand, New Music but in the third of these four concerts a stronger impression began to emerge of what New Zealand music is actually like. Partly this was due to the ...

On an empty road behind the sweep of Scarista Beach, where ocean winds were flattening the dune grasses, stood a lone white house. It could have been a drawing from a storybook: steep-roofed, a little ...

From castle visits to whisky tastings, here's what not to miss. An archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, the Hebrides comprises over 70 islands and numerous islets, divided into the Inner and ...

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Becoming the first person to swim, run and cycle the length of the Outer Hebrides, an Edinburgh man has taken the crown after battling his way through traumatic seasickness and physical challenges.

For its 25th anniversary, the Scottish new music group (although its output delves a bit further back in time than that description might suggest) had commissioned a brand new chamber opera from ...

OUTER HEBRIDES, SCOTLAND — The word “remote” is greeted with an eye roll by the tight-knit communities of the Outer Hebrides, a collection of spectacular islands off Scotland’s far northwestern coast ...

THE price of fuel is now at its most expensive in three years, with UK drivers forking out an average of 126.5p a litre on diesel and 123.5p for petrol. Drivers should fill up in Blackpool and ...

With aging ferries delayed sometimes for days, life goes haywire on an island in the Outer Hebrides. On South Uist, off the coast of Scotland, locals and visitors say tempers are frayed after years of ...

ALTHOUGH not entirely the anomaly in this year's Edinburgh International Festival that it first appeared – German composer Hans Zender's "Composed Interpretation" of Schubert's Winterreise takes some ...