INTEREST in William Jackson's Land of Light, the winning entry in The Herald's Song for Scotland competition, continues to grow, writes Michael Tumelty.
The Lowland Band of the Scottish Division, one of the two Army bands in Scotland, is to contact the composer about an arrangement for pipes and drums.
The Ocean Youth Club, Europe's largest youth sailing organisation, has expressed interest in obtaining a number of arrangements for the naming ceremony for a sail training ketch, Alba Venturer.
Yesterday, the Scottish-Gaelic Society of Australia contacted The Herald from Victoria having downloaded the song from the website.
The society described it as ''beautiful'', and suggested it wanted to perform the song to ''the Gaels down under''.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will be taking the song into its summer Prom concerts. The National Youth Choir of Scotland is interested in receiving an unaccompanied version.
Meanwhile, the composer is working flat out organising different versions, and will be taking them next week to the Castle Sound recording studios in Pencaitland.
Ben Parry, artistic director of the specialist choir, the Dunedin Consort, and also in charge of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus, is making arrangements of the song for choir and soloist, and for choir alone.
Piper Keith Easdale, who featured on the recording submitted to the competition, is making a version for solo bagpipes. Marie MacInnes, the original singer on Land of Light, is translating the entire song into Gaelic.
Jackson's intention is to record four or five different versions which will appear on a new album, to be published by his own record label, Mill Records, next month.
Land of Light can be heard on The Herald hotline, 09001 11 22 17. Calls cost 50p per minute.
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