Korb, who wrote the original anthem with fellow Berlin composer Uli Roever for a Highland Games event, has joined forces with a Yorkshire-born composer and musician, Ian Macpherson, to create ...

HIGHLAND Cathedral, the 1980s tune that is now a staple of school concerts and pipe bands, is being proposed as a Scottish national song to replace the ubiquitous Flower of Scotland.

ONCE again, Flower of Scotland is challenged both in words and tune as being worthy as Scotland’s anthem (Herald letters, October 3). Personally, I would welcome Highland Cathedral, with its ...

This tune was written for the bagpipes by Ullrich Roever and Michael Korb to mark the occasion of a Highland games held in Germany in 1982. In contrast to Flower of Scotland, the bagpipes can ...