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The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. Since its 2003–06 refurbishment, the museum has been the most popular free-to-enter visitor attraction in Scotland, and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London.
The gallery is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin (opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall, which was built in matching style in the 1920s, after the previous hall had been destroyed by fire). It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated near the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill.
The construction of Kelvingrove was partly financed by the proceeds of the 1888 International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park. The gallery was designed by Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901, as the Palace of Fine Arts for the Glasgow International Exhibition held in that year. It is built in a Spanish Baroque style, follows the Glaswegian tradition of using Locharbriggs red sandstone, and includes an entire program of architectural sculpture by George Frampton, William Shirreffs,Francis Derwent Wood and other sculptors.
Alastair McDonald`s revised & updated take of a soldier`s love song describing his imminent departure to the wars, from which he may not return. The tune can be found housing other songs, notably "Oh the Shearing`s No` for You" in all it`s various versions. Kelvingrove, in Glasgow, with the river Kelvin running through, is a well known "lovers` lane". This from Alastair McDonald`s Scotdisc production "Gretna to Glencoe". See more Alastair McDonald on "Velvet & Steel" Like what you hear? Try http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Corban-Recordings
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has been announced as one of the ten finalists for the prestigious Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013.Kelvingrove is one of Glasgow's world-class civic museums and is home to internationally renowned collections and exhibitions. Since reopening after a £35 million refurbishment in 2006, the museum has welcomed more than 10 million visitors, exploring 22 themed galleries, displaying 8,000 objects of national and international significance
Kelvin Grove is the second song in the choral cycle ‘Scotia Songs,’ which was composed on a commission from the Texas Christian University School of Music (Richard Gipson, director), for the TCU Concert Chorale. The collection uses Scottish folk poetry and tunes, and traces a love story from the perspective of a man who must ultimately leave his beloved Scottish homeland. In ‘The Lily and the Rose,’ the man describes his lover in two different, but related poems that have been textually and musically interwoven. ‘Kelvin Grove’ finds the lovers preparing to escape to their favorite getaway; yet in the final verse we realize that he must soon leave both his lover and his home. ‘Loch Lomond,’ a well-loved and moving tune, is set here as a reminiscence of the love he had, for now his heart is ...
Guitar Tab for this arrangement is available from http://www.spanish-guitarist.co.uk/buy-tabs Live 1-2-1 on-line lessons are now available for this video with Skype and the first lesson is Free !!! - for details please visit my website http://www.spanish-guitarist.co.uk "Kelvin Grove", a traditional Celtic folk song. This song first appeared in The Harp of Renfrewshire, where it was erroneously credited to Mr. John Sim. The words were proven to be by Thomas Lyle (1792-1859). Lyle was born in Paisley and died in Glasgow. Kelvingrove appeared in a volume of his works, Collected Poems and Songs (1837). This song was written to the tune of "The shearin's no for you". Kelvin Grove was a picturesque and richly wooded dell a short distance north west of Glasgow and was a favourite place for yo...
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=4 The Kelvingrove Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections. Since its refurbishment the museum is the most popular free to enter visitor attraction in Scotland, and the most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. It is located on Argyle Street, in the West End of the city, on the banks of the River Kelvin (opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall, which was built in matching style some years later, after the previous hall had been destroyed by fire). It is adjacent to Kelvingrove Park and is situated immediately beneath the main campus of the University of Glasgow on Gilmorehill. The construction of Kelvingrove was partly fi...
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