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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20051110
Author:LINDA SUMMERHAYES and JOHN GIBSON
HE IS one of Scotland's most celebrated authors, but Robert Louis Stevenson apparently fancied himself as a bit of a composer too.
Experts today said they have been stunned to discover the existence of a rare piece of music written by a homesick Stevenson and inspired by a picturesque Lothian village.
Members of the Edinburgh-based Robert Louis Stevenson Club have been presented with the jaunty piece, titled Aberlady Links, and have now had it recorded for the first time.
The short composition, thought to be the only one Stevenson invented, was written in Samoa, where he died, for flageolet ...
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