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At the Service of Thanksgiving, held at St Leonards in the Fields Church in Perth, former Moderator, Very Rev. Dr David Lacy, gave a reading and Dr Simpson's eldest son Neil gave a tribute on behalf of the family. Dr Simpson's son-in-law Derick Macaskill playing "Highland Cathedral" on the bagpipes. At the end of the funeral, retiring donations ...
The Queen’s Piper will help close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her ...
Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a traditional Scottish lament for the bagpipes. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. It gained prominence when it was played during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022.
"Highland Cathedral" (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais na Gàidhealtachd) is a popular melody for the great Highland bagpipe. This melody was composed by German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb [ 1 ] in 1982 for a Highland games held in Germany. [ 2 ]
Queen Elizabeth's state funeral was a grand affair. Held at Westminster Abbey on September 19, 2022 in London, England, the funeral saw world leaders and royalty from around the world travel to ...
In 2006, a Devon folk singer, Sheelagh Allen, wrote a song about him, "The Highland Piper". [11] Millin played the pipes at Lord Lovat's funeral in 1995. [12] Millin, who suffered a stroke in 2003, died in hospital in Torbay on 17 August 2010, aged 88. [1] [4] His wife Margaret (née Dowdel, from Edinburgh) died in 2000. They were survived by ...
They agreed that the Marine Band should lead the funeral procession, [82] [89] which would include two foreign military units—10 pipers from the Scottish Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) marching from the White House to St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, [90] a group of 30 Irish Defence Forces cadets—at the request of Mrs. Kennedy ...
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services ...