Stromness is referenced in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece Farewell to Stromness, a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area.
It was composed in 1980, in the aftermath of the publication of a report (commissioned by the Secretary of State for Scotland into the possibility of mining uranium ('yellow cake')) which had been discovered near the town of Stromness in Orkney.
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The work was premiered at the Stromness Hotel as part of the 1980 St Magnus Festival with Eleanor Bron as the reciter, accompanied by the composer.
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