Hector The Hero
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- HECTOR THE HERO : Greg Cutcliff - bass and chanter, Dave Foster guitar and piano, Hazel Johnson mandolin, Masako -Fiddle/Video/Editing
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Lovely rendition of Hector the hero. Well done.
LOVE YOUR HECTOR THE HERO. YOU MAKE AN OLD MAN'S SOUL SOAR WITH EAGLES
Really beautifully done! For those who would like the sheet music:
musescore.com/user/643986/scores/5517663
And for those who would like a little historical perspective:
"Hector the Hero" is a popular fiddle tune by the great Scottish composer James Scott Skinner in 1903. This classic lament memorializes the death by coerced suicide of General Sir Hector ("Fighting Mac") MacDonald, a popular war hero in Scotland and England, who had been the Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ceylon. MacDonald was a brilliant military strategist, an accomplished commander, and a polymath -- he spoke Hindustani, Urdu, Pushtu, Arabic, French, and English as well as his native Gaelic.
MacDonald joined the Gordan Highlanders at the age of 17. He served gallantly in Afghanistan, Egypt, the Sudan, India, South Africa, and Ceylon. At the time of his death he was the most popular and widely known war hero in Brittain, having been knighted for his service in the Second Boer War. Betrayed by the empire he so faithfully served, MacDonald committed suicide in 1903 instead of facing a court martial following accusations of homosexual activity with the local Sinhalese.
The scandal reaffirmed his heroic status among his native Scots, who understood that a similar scandal involving any of the aristocratic English officers would have been hushed up. They understood too that MacDonald was facing charges not so much for his being homosexual, but because as a Scot he had always been an outsider in the British military. The charges were brought by a jealous British officer corps angered by MacDonald's real crime, that of being a low-born Scott who had risen through the ranks on merit alone, and who treated the local Sinhalese as equals, rather than colonized inferiors.
His funeral in Edinburgh was attended by 30,000 countrymen. Immediately after, the British government, which had been so eager to prosecute him, destroyed all records of the case against him, declared that there had been no basis for the charges, and pronounced him a glorious and unparalleled hero.
This beautiful funeral march has become one of the most popular tunes in the fiddle repertoire. It can be played as a light air, or as a military march.
See the Wikipedia article for a short biography of this amazing hero of Scotland.
This is one of the best played version I have ever heard for this song
Beautiful. Great rendition.
Somehow captures something special.
Very beautiful especially played in midst of nature . Each musician played hauntingly beautiful. Thanks
this is so beautiful and deserves millions of listens!! x
Soft and gentle and beautiful, thank you.
Beautiful rendition of a wonderful tune!
Very sweetly done!
Beautiful arranging and playing.
Incidentally, you could use this video setup for “Home, Lads, Home.”
Quirn kisters xx Bothy Balladers lovely
Fantastic
A beautiful Scottish lament completely ruined, nae soul to it at all, sorry........................
Bullshit ,aye to you so called scot , you are a disgrace to Scotland Beinn. Uais , This TUNE WAS PLAYED BEAUTIFULLY SO SAYS I .Duncan Pitkeathly,a native Scot.
They tried to get “country” touch to a sacred Scottish Lament by James Scott-Skinner for his true friend “Fighting Mac”, Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, Major General, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, D. S.O…..a brave and a true soldier!