will have a3trackdemofor saleatthefestival. have ontheIslandatSt performed Thomas’ Church, at Yn Chruinnaghtandinvariousotherensembles Sweden culminatinginwhatpromises to beauniqueandrichblendoftraditionalclassicalmusic. They hasdevelopedthen, theirexperimentalproject to includemusicfrom allover theCeltic World, and Norway Chiaullee. At FILlastyear, andBreton avibrantmixofManx traditionalmusic. theduoperformed Since of thedrivingforces behindwinnersoftheFestival Interceltique de Lorient Trophee deMusique2008,King fi cornetto playertrumpet specialistandskilled around whoregularly theworld performs withsomeofthe trumpet andorgan. Bothaccomplished musiciansoriginally from Russellisa natural theIsleofMan, Russell GilmourandDavid Kilgallon and Fergus intheEglise Cain, SaintLouis, to perform Espace andEnclosduPort. Marine arranged by thegroup’s talented director, AnnieKissack. Ten adultswillbejoinedby young singers, Magnus Caarjyn Cooidjagh ofgenres,by awidevariety including jazz. They willhave theirdebutEPonsaleatthefestival. and Katie’s own tunes. They are infl at Yn Chruinnaghtand, represented theIslandatSpeyfest in2012. The trioplay acombination oftraditional Boys oftheLoughsupported andGuidewires newcomer to thescene. Scammylt have those intradcircles, isarelative butMike are to perhapsbetterand Katie known Lawrence(guitar) andKatie (fi of RussellCowin Reaney (doublebass),Mike Scammylt 2013 istheyear ofAsturias. alongside theCeltic diaspora. Isle ofManisoneeightnationshonoured staggering 800,000visitorsover tendays. The from MHF.with support Thefestival attracts a by anIsleofManpavilion,runby Peter Skelly - Festival Interceltique deLorient, supported Isle ofManatEurope’s largest Celtic festival &RussellGilmourwillrepresentKilgallon the Scammylt, Caarjyn Cooidjagh andDavid nest periodinstrumentensembles. David isamultiinstrumentalistandspecialistcomposer, heisalsoone david kilgallon&russellgilmourat Caarjyn Cooidjagh’s track, MishasyKeayn, hasbeenchosentofeature on More details here: http://keltiamusique.com/l-annee-des-asturies.html More details here:http://keltiamusique.com/l-annee-des-asturies.html are arelatively newtrioconsisting Scammylt, caarjyncooidjaghand festival interceltiquedelorient, perform a selection of traditional and contemporary Manx songs in Manx Gaelic, songsinManx Manx oftraditionalandcontemporary aselection perform Brittany, August2013 Keltia Musique’s offi ddle). Russell www.festival-interceltique.com uenced notonlyby someofthemore moderntraditionalbands, butalso bringsomethingdiff cial CDforthe festival. erent to thefestival -thejubilantsoundof

kiaull manninagh jiu 08/13 culture vannin/manx heritage foundation Isla Callister-Wafer OH WHAT ALOVELY FESTIVAL YNCHRUINNAGHTIS! receiving the Manx Inspirations Yn Chruinnaght award 2013 schools and community outreach,schools andcommunity free events andticketed gigs Manx Lottery Trust, Yn Chruinnaght2013was acracker! With Supported by IOM Arts Council, MHF, by IOMArts Supported ManxTelecom andthe and events, there was aheadymixofallthingsCeltic. If youIf weren’t there, we can onlytellyou how gooditwas! More infoonourFacebook pageandourwebsite: Val Caine photos ofLisaJenfrom 9Bach andKevin Henderson from Boys of theLough, whowowed audiences at the Centenary Centreaudiences at the Centenary www.ynchruinnaght.com

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It Graingerwasthefi where ofsoundrecording thisrecording ofthehistory sessionof 12April1905sitswithwhatisknown The reference to “verses ofwell-known songs” inthe the Island. on blankrecords, andthesumof12/-for repairs to thephonograph itself, perhapsdamagedintransitto £715s0donthephonograph itself,found ally: horn,stand, complete andbasket,£116s0d withanextra Language Society, for 1905. inherannualreport The balance sheetoutlined theexpenditure onthisnew soundsasutteredthe Manx by native speakers.” oftheManx Secretary Morrison, Sophia reported So “A newallyhascome to thecauseinform itisto preserve ofanEdisonPhonograph, whosefunction he would have beenplaced with asaninnovatorVikár infi other words IwillbringaPhonograph.” There ifhehaddoneso, isnoevidence thatGilldidso—but then getting anabsolutely truefi the fi J.F. Gilland W.H. in1895and1898. Gill, inMan thepaircollecting The latter’s experience ofnotatingin seems to have beenthenormfor DrJohnClague. collaborators His were theGillbrothers, Deemster on theamountofmaterial that could gathered becomfortably inonesession. Three tunespersession the key, especiallywhenthesinger’s voice haslostsome ofitspristinefreshness.” This placed alimit commenting that down musicintheDorianmodeisnotsoeasyasitlooks,“[t]aking &oneisaptto lose P.W. Caine conveyed thediffi it adiffi to notate useofitbecausehisinability music.phonograph, Even making thosewhocould were to fi Béla inDecemberVikár 1896wasthefi with hiswife, Elizabeth,whowas83.Allcouples were andEnglish. bilingual inManx years old, hiswife Ann,67. William wasanotherretired Kneen farmer, aged74,residing atCroit-e-Caley farmer livingatBallafesson withhiswife Annie, aged63. William Keggen,farmingatGlendown was79 But whatofthesingersthemselves? The Moores were Thomas, aged68inthe1901census, aretired pair were presumably members, languagelearnerclass. andenthusiasticonesatthat,ofaManx Douglas. While Cowell familywere allborninEngland. wasManx-born,theShortland Evidently, theythe was 20,astationer’s assistantin1901,againthenlivingathomewithhisfamily22BerkeleyStreet in of the1901census andlivingathomewithhisfamily4 Victoria A.Shortland RoadinDouglas. Ramsey singers themselves. As regards thecollectors, Charles T. Cowell was18years old, aschoolboy atthetime Not onlydowe have yet more namesto folk addto ofManx thecollectors song, butmore namesof In 1905,the In eld causedhimto refl THE SOUNDRECORDING PROGRAMMEOF THE MANX LANGUAGE SOCIETY songs were alsosung. The results are mostinteresting. recited Biblicalpassages.and theselections were Afew themostpart hymns andverses ofwell-known who spokeinthegramophone Moore, Kneen; wereKeggen(whois84years andMrs ofage),andMr Mr Mr improvement waseff slight readjustment in themechanismofmachinesuggested itselfto oneoftheyoung men,andan andC.T. R.A.Shortland from Mr peopleintheSouth, Cowell, jun[io]r, went to Port Erinon Wednesday. A oftheIslandfamiliarwithit,andforby thepurposeofprocuring residents suchrecords invariousparts hasdecidedto obtaingramophoneThe LanguageSociety records Manx language, oftheManx asspoken usually tuneswere withoutfullwords collected butsometimesthereverse occurred. pairs butthiswasnotalways practical. The result ofsolo together,working oneto takedown thewords, theothertunes. 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Those ect inaletter fromect 1897on “the enormousdiffi rst record.” The solution: timeIcome over“Next Iwill ‘fetch acompass.’ In culty ofnotatinginthefi culty “THE RESULTS“THE AREMOSTINTERESTING” reported that: reported rst personinEurope to record traditionalmusicwiththe by Stephen Miller, Vienna Peel Guardian City eld inaletter to much later Morrison in1914, Feis Ceoil collecting wasthatsongswerecollecting incomplete, often eld collecting techniques inEurope.eld collecting heldinBelfast inMay 1897, “Saturday’s piece raises thequestionasto culty (if not impossibility) of (ifnotimpossibility) culty rst to nd kiaull manninagh jiu 08/13 culture vannin/manx heritage foundation This was announced in the annual report that year with further detailappearingin thatyearThis wasannounced withfurther intheannualreport ofthatyear,in September “I amhopingyou willbeableto usetheM.L.S.Phonograph duringthewinter.” expenditure islisted, butrecording were place aslate writingto activities as1913,Morrison Kneen taking never appeared), 8s1din1908,and,Report fi bought over theyears: £116s0dwasspentinitially, followed for 1906,(the1907 by 11s6dintheReport of blankrecords listed intheyearly expenditure oftheSociety. Smaller numbersofrecords were The Society’s recording programme ranfrom 1904until1908atthelatest, judging from the purchasing unclear given ofthecustom asthe thevitality English. Quite why felt Morrison theneedto “train” agroup ofPeel schoolchildren to sing “Hop-tu-naa” is daughters. While theirparents were bilingual, thesiblings, ranging inagefrom 20to 29,spokeonly house keeperlivingat “Tynwald House,” Parade, 56Marine Peel, withhiswife, Honora,63,and theirfour 36, at19StanleyRoad, Peel. aged60,wasamarinerandboarding ShespokeonlyEnglish.JohnQuirk, is asCashin.) John(“Jack”) Cregeen wasamariner, 76,widowed andlivingwithhisdaughter, Matilda, with hiswife Ellen,60,at3 Tynwald Road, Peel, spellingthere bothofthemrecorded asbilingual. (The Cashen isdescribedasatailor, heisrecorded inthe1901census asafi Parade,3 Marine Peel. The speakerwas onlyManx William Cashen himself. While thesecond William 66, wastheCustodian ofPeel Castle, livingwithSusannah,hiswife of63,andtheir27year oldsonat was 52andspokeonlyEnglish,asdidtheirthree children, agedfrom 8to 19. William Cashen, aged Cubbon wasamilkdealer, 57,residing at36DouglasStreet, Peel, withhiswife andfamily. AnnCubbon wasacquired agesuggeststhathisManx laterElizabeth, 46,whospokeonlyEnglish.His inlife. Edward English. Ceasar Cashin [sic]wasagreengrocer, aged46,livingat1Castle Street inPeel withhiswife, in theparishofGerman,livingathotel there. Aged 74, he wasunmarried, and andspokeManx As regards thesingersandreciters, William attraction Cain wasagardener atGlenHelen,awaterfall As ofsungandspokenitems, canbeseen,amixture withbothsecularandreligious material recorded. the meetingand “[a]mong therecords putthrough were thefollowing”: After theendofformal businessofthemeeting, anumberoftherecordings were played aloudto learning materials for theMLS: this view. Aswrote Morrison having in1905,after failedto to encourage Kneen Nelsonto produce some This viewwasnotjustconfi technical thistime: then come backto Douglasagain.” There was, however, adiffi the west oftheIslandand “[t]he instrumentisto few goto Laxey weeks, withinthenext andRamsey and According to Morrison’s in1905,thephonograph hadbeenusedinthesouthand to theSociety report competition.” islikelythoughthat It doings […]rangedfrom ‘the recording airsinthephonograph’ ofunpublishedIrish to a ‘country fi enunciation. Mr Kneen willhave Kneen thephonographenunciation. Mr thiswinter atPort Erin. altogether, whichHeaven forefend, it will bepossiblefor future generationsto hearthe pure oldManx mighthave beenlost.Evensong andspeech,whichotherwise should thespokenlanguagedieout The Language Society’s Manx phonograph thepast ithasstored isstillhard In atwork. upmuchofManx and creditable series. hymns; andalsosomemiscellaneous renderings by Mr W. Cashen, tailor, Peel; excellent altogether avery Peel, JohnQuirk, Mr anoriginal yarnaboutthefi Niaghtey”; “Kirroo-fo “Hop-tu-naa”; Mr W. Rushen,two hymns; Croit-e-Caley, Mr Kneen, Wm. Cain, GlenHelen, “Mylechraine,” and JackCregeen, Peel, Mr the HerringFleet”; song, “Ec ny Fiddleryn”; Peel boys song, Morrison, trained by Miss Boxing theCompass; Mr Thos. Moore, Surby, Rushen,Corinthians, 13thChapter, andsong, the of “Wreck Edward Cubbon,By Mr Peel, asong by Mr “Neddy HomRuy”; W. Cashen, Peel, theCreed, theLord’s Prayer, Sankey. aswe issuchapity have It somuchofthatwishy washy stuff ofwork asjustsomuch looks uponthatkind oneambitionbeingto & translate Moody “boghtynid”—his I have donemy bestto persuadeNelsonto give day -jogyarnsinhomelyManx—buthe ussomeevery is to bedesired. themcanunderstandthefeeling, Onewhoknows Carvals. but,for thepurposesofM.L.S.more frivolity serious thingasarecord whichisto behandeddown to shallconsist posterity ofHymns, Scripture, or “boghtynid” lit., [Manx, ‘rubbish’] asfolk-stories andsayings andsecularsongs. They prefer thatsucha the unwillingness to ofourintensely speakinto earnestandreligious theinstrumentsuch peasantry One diffi culty intheway ofobtainingthematerialculty whichwe want,hasbeen,asIhave found by experience, ned to the “peasantry,” oneofthecollectors, namelyJohnNelson,alsoshared nally, nofurther just5s6din1909.After the1909report, Peel Guardian City culty incollecting, andonethatwasnot culty attested to in1911. in Manx—& ofnoreal inManx—& value.” shing; Mr Caesar Cashen,shing; Mr Peel, two sherman, agedthen66,andliving Mannin : ddlers’

kiaull manninagh jiu 08/13 culture vannin/manx heritage foundation recording Gaelic. ofManx town amute and Morrison, testament episodeintheearlycollecting ofSophia to whatisaremarkable themselves.the cylinders andsitsinamuseum inPeel,The MLSphonograph itselfsurvived thehome we canonlyguessat,theunintended irony here isthatthoserecorded withthe “new ally” outlived oftheIsland.”parts Given theeventual thesize andnature cylinders, fate ofthemlscollection ofwhich “Our phonographthespeechandaccent peopleofthisgeneration,from willpreserve ofManx diff The Rev. E.B. Savage inhis1905Presidential Address to theMLSspokeofphonograph intheseterms: cover puzzle, oftheSociety. astheannualreports This indepththeactivities isafurther Morrison’s asSecretary, annualreports save amentioninthe1906report: frustratinglythere arethe purchasing Onanothertack, no mentionsofthephonograph ofcylinders. in correspondence between theindividualsinvolved asto any diffi reason. The minute booksdonotprovide any background, butnoristhere any mentioninthesurviving andtheothersmusthaveMorrison carriedonby paying outoftheirown pocketsfor someunknown This ispuzzling, given thatexpenditure onblank records by theSociety thatyear endsin1909,after coming winter oftheIslandto thephonograph which ithasnotyet willpay beensent. visitsto thoseparts thenative sounds,the ideaofthuspreserving andquotingusasagoodexample. We hopethatduringthe obtained from speakers, Manx andvariousparagraphs have appeared intheEnglishPress commending by aninanimate memberofthisSociety. Imeanthephonograph. Many mostinteresting records have been Before passingonto thesocialevents ofthepastyear, Imustnotforget to mentionthework accomplished culty with the Society continuing to fund withtheSociety culty erent

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kiaull manninagh jiu 08/13 culture vannin/manx heritage foundation ‘On Head’, Maughold datingfrom the1950s –whichIhopeto examine inafew weeks’ time. Furthermore, asIwrite, theautograph score ofasecond larger-scale orchestral work has come to light– Celebration inJuly, Concert withgenerous fi A newconductor’s were produced parts score for andperforming the Villa 100thAnniversary Marina scored anddeftly companion-piececrafted to Haydn Wood’s Manx-inspired overture andtone poems. whichuntilmorework, evidence isavailable, Itentatively date to the1940s. Isle’ Magic ‘The isawell- Sea. menaced theIrish The earlierpiece wasprobably theinspirationfor themuchmore substantial and wasKing whenOrry longships Viking history twice, thatturbulentperiodinManx perhapsevoking folksong ‘O, whatifFowler my hastaken’. Blackbird Another, more agitated, war-likethemeappears whichreturnsof thework, maestoso to usherinthefi modestly’ andrecalls Vaughan Williams inthe his ‘Folk Suite’ Song vein. The central, broad, lyricaltheme Cloak ofManannan. The main The work openswithanatmospheric out oralterations. pages of18and20stave staves manuscriptpaperwithextra addedasnecessary, few crossings withvery more ambitiouspiece ofapproximately 8minutes duration,theautograph ofwhichconsists ofsixty-two niaghtey’. inthecomposer’s Bothworks have withorchestral parts survived hand. MagicIsle’‘The isafar the Fowler my hastaken’, Blackbird as alsoknown ‘Graih Foalsey’ or ‘False Love’ (1932),and Kirree fo‘Ny Two lovely miniatures arrangements f are skilful today. unknown andweresurvived virtually and HughDavidson, that,astonishingly, theautograph scores orchestral works of four had important he ultimately Isubsequentlylearnedfrom achieved hisgrandsons thepositionofChiefClerk. Ewan fromAmateur Orchestral 1917until1926,hiscareer Society wasintheRollsOffi Symphony Orchestra came across JEQuayle’s namewhenresearching for my recent book Orchestra underCharlesGroves,by theBBCNorthern andbroadcast from the YMCA, Manchester. I composer, Manx Edward Quayle onJuly8th1946 (1869-1957),alittle-known thatwaslastperformed On Friday Symphony July12th2013,theIsleofMan aFantasy-Overture Orchestra by performed John arrangement oftheManxNationalAnthem. fi ofthe Villa Marinaandthe concluded withhis lmshowconcert aboutthehistory Sketches).Countryside Compère CharlesGuard gave and afascinating commentary Nicks’ “Saturday Special”andHaydn Wood’s “A ManxPastoral Scene” (from Manx by theirconductor Maurice MagicIsle” Powell, (seearticle “The below), Geoff Picardy”. TheIOMSymphony JEQuayle’s Orchestra performed Fantasy-Overture anybody here seenKelly?” and“Flanagan”, followed by Haydn Wood’s “Rosesof venue, there was ofManxmusic. MandyGriffi plenty aprogrammeAmongst ofmusicwhichrefl 100 ected years of theentertainment Illiam Quane. ofwella selection known local singersandthecurrent Young MusicianofMann, starring theIsleofManSymphony Orchestra, Wind Castle Band, RushenHighSchool The Villa Marinacelebrated lastmonth(12July)withagalaconcert itscentenary HAPPY 100THBIRTHDAY MARINA! VILLA . Violinist andorchestra leader, pianist,organist oftheDouglas andtheconductor Allegro poco vivace ‘THE MAGIC‘THE ISLE’ by Maurice Powell Andante quasilento Andante by ChloeWoolley nancial support from HeritageFoundation. the Manx nancial support or smallorchestra folk oftheManx tunes ‘O, whatif is based on the jaunty tune is basedonthejaunty ‘She answered mequite nal chorale-like peroration, isonce againthe nal chorale-like evoking perhapsthe Islandshroudedevoking inthe n sangFlorrie Forde’s hits“Has ENCORE! oftheIsleMan TheStory ce where in1925,

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