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Culture on the Couch - Alan Craig

URTV’s first ever Culture Show. Jo and Maria are joined on the couch by Helensburgh Composer Alan Craig, whose Mass was recently premiered in Glasgow as part of the Festival of Music celebrating the reopening of St Andrews Cathedral. Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti, invited Alan to conduct his work, A Diminished Mass, which took ten years to complete.



Thursday 2nd June 7:02pm by Peter James

Great interview .... What an amazing chap! Helensburgh is still producing heroes. Peter James, Boulder, CO

Thursday 2nd June 7:22pm by Jane MacDonald

Is this the guy that sang in the Helensburgh Heroes (cinema) video?

Thursday 2nd June 7:33pm by Kate Spalding

This is great, is this show going to be a regular thing?

Thursday 2nd June 8:52pm by Newsdesk

Hi Kate, It is, there are is so much talent in the area, so many living heroes who are inspiring, so we thought why not profile them. If you have any suggestions let us know.

Thursday 2nd June 8:54pm by Mary P

Great Idea!. I love URTV! I watch it every day.

Saturday 4th June 1:36am by Alicia Hendrick

Congradulations for the launch of Culture on the Couch. Lovely interview. Hoping that Alan Craig's latin mass will be restaged. I would love to see it performed at St Peter's Seminary as part of the current drive to renovate the building and area into a new cultural centre

Monday 11th July 7:07pm by wendy white

Many congratulations Alan.Absolutely no surprise to me that you are doing what you're doing. I'll never forget you up at Blairvaich arranging music for the school orchestra after gas lamps extinguished, with a caving lamp on your head. Happy days. when I mentioned this to Robert Pullin saying how tallented you were he said "No he isn't, he's gifted" What an inspiration he was to so many and I'm sure you will be too. Take care and love to you and the family Wendy

Monday 10th October 12:08am by peter norris

a true masterpiece.well done Alan

Tuesday 6th December 7:00pm by Laurence Wilde

Have just seen Alan Craig's Diminished Mass on the Italian tv channel called CLASSICA. By a coincidence archbishop Conti was here in our little town (Coreglia Antelminelli in Tuscany) during the summer and our town band played Scotland the Brave for him, to his amusement I think. How can I contact Alan? I am not an expert user of this computer thing, I'm afraid

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