music in lockdown

Beautiful Sounds of Isolation

Submitted by Abby on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 14:43

Our teaching Director Olwen Macleod lives in the Outer Hebrides and those who are taught by her may have been given the ‘webcam treat’ of looking out of her studio window onto the sea, which sometimes comes through her window when there is a stormy high tide.   Near where she lives is the island of Staffa, and Fingal’s Cave.  No-one lives on this Island and it is often difficult to land a boat there.  But many years ago composer Felix Mendelssohn visited the uninhabited island and wrote the fa