100 Years of Buxton Orr

Celebrate the incredible legacy of Buxton Orr at this special event at Scottish Music Centre Ltd. Join us for a memorable evening filled with music, stories, and song as we honour the life and music of this overlooked local composer!

Buxton Orr (1924-1997) was an Anglo-Scottish composer who was born and grew up Glasgow. Orr's music captures a playful yet thoughtful personality, and his song settings demonstrate his masterful word painting and interpretation of poetry. His Scottish heritage is explicit in 'Songs of a Childhood', a song-cycle of Scots children's poetry and 'Celtic Suite', his suite for strings, which The Bubblyjocks have arranged for accordion and piano duo.

FULL PROGRAMME:

The Painter’s Mistress (1974)
Text by James Elroy Flecker

Celtic Suite (1968)
Originally for string orchestra, arr. for accordion and piano

The Ballad of Mr and Mrs Discobbolos (1970)
Nonsense poem by Edward Lear

Bagatelles for solo piano (1952)

Songs of a Childhood (1962)
Settings of Scots children's poetry

Host or Publisher The Bubblyjock Collective