1945 - Cathedral chorister age 9

The choir of St. Paul's Cathedral Dundee, c. 1946
Front Row ( L. to R.) William Poole (Choir Warden);
Charles M. Cowe (Director of Music);
Very Rev. John Chappell Sprott
(Provost, later to become Bishop of the diocese)
and Rev. Valentine Fletcher (Precentor)

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Pipe major (far left) aged 17
The High School of Dundee Pipes & Drums
(Embedded mp3 - Pipes & Drums Edinburgh Tattoo)

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Favourite Sports in my Youth

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1982 Perth Cathedral with some of the trebles
and seated surrounded by four probationers.

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The laid-back Head of Music ~
Linlathen High School, Dundee (1978 - 1996).

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  St. Mary's Broughty Ferry with Sara Craighead (age 10)
on her being raised to Junior Singer - 1988
           
In Memoriam

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Third from left rear row with some of
the choir of St. Mary's Broughty Ferry,
Dundee and Dean of the Diocese
The Very Rev. Robert Breaden - 1991

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Dr. of Metaphysics 1996

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At work on compositions in 'the office on' -         1.the 'Marwnat' (based on         The Lament of The Border Widow),      2. the 'Epilogue' on ''Dafydd y Garreg Wen' (a Welsh folk song) and   3. Chorale Prelude "Christe Sanctorum" (all for pedal organ 2001/2002.) Retired but not from music. (Edinburgh 2002)		St. Peter's Lutton Pl. Edinburgh, having had the international recitalist & composer  Michael Bonaventure Tomassi (just behind me) give the first performance of two of my organ works at the Edinburgh Festival 2002 (At rear is fellow composer Dr.Ornette Clennon)

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2014 & age 78, having been awarded my third Fellowship.
(Fellow of The Academy of St. Cecilia)

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Our 30th wedding anniversary - 2014 (an eventful year)

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80th Birthday Party July 2016
   

A  day of celebration with Family and friends.

(Group photos will not be displayed here as
our photos seem to have offended both
the pathologically jealous & psychotic 
menopausal serpent and the schmuck
who hacked my site and removed
this page.  Sorry folks!)

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