MUSIC LIST
0 Music is listed as diary: by day, then by city, then by event.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 12 Glasgow
0 8N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.40 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). The Proms open in Glasgow with the audience's choice of Stravinsky"s Firebird Suite. Night on a Bare Mountain and the Sorcerer‘s Apprentice. Mendelssohn's First Witches Sabbath is of the SNO's choosing. Distinguished line up of soloists. SNO Chorus and Youth Chorus too.
Edinburgh
0 Organ Recital St Andrew’s and St George‘s Church. George Street. Tickets at door. 8pm. £2. In one of the highlights ofthis year‘s Edinburgh ()rgan Week. Rene Saorgin from Nice (sister-city of Edinburgh) plays music by French composers and Buxtehude. who was born 350 years ago this year.
SATURDAY 13 Glasgow
0 8N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.-l0 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). Keeping up with our weather. rain is the inspiration behind tonight‘s Prom. Not surprisingly. there's Land ()fThe Mountain And The Flood. Scheherezade with its storm scene and even an appropriately watery sounding conductor— Christopher Seaman.
Edinburgh
0 Organ Recital St Stephen‘s Parish Church. St Vincent Street (foot of Howe Street). Tickets at door. 1pm. £2. More French organ music as the Edinburgh ()rgan Week just about comes to a stop (geddit'?) Alan Buchan is today's organist.
0 Scottish Chamber Choir St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets at door. 8pm. £3 (£2). Choral music mixes with music for organ in the last of this year's Edinburgh Organ Week concerts.
SUNDAY 14
Edinburgh
0 St Giles' at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. High Street. Free at door. 6pm. Music for baritone and piano
MUSIC
performed by Peter Cannell and Shonagh Croal including Butterworth's A Shropshire [ad and songs by John Ireland.
0 Scottish Sintonia Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. Tickets: 228 115.5 (Usher Hall). 7.45pm. £3 (£2.40.'£1.50). Champagne in Vienna. brought in music if not in actuality. to Edinburgh from Neil Mantle and his versatile orchestra. Pamela Turley is the soloist in Mozart‘s Clarinet Concerto and there‘s a predictable input from Johann Strauss.
0 Organ Recital Reid Concert Ilall. Teviot Row. Bristo Square. 8pm. Tickets at door. £3.50 ( £2.50). Peter Hurford plays music by Bach and Buxtehude.
0 Cathedral Classics by London Festival Orchestra St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: 228 1 155 (Usher Hall). 7.30pm. Extra date: Monday 15. Paisley. £3.50 £4.50. In their summer series of music in Cathedrals throughout Britain. the LFO (led by Richard Friedman) present a popular programme with works by Bach. (I) minor concerto for 2 violins). Haydn. Finzi. Mozart and Handel. (see photo)
MONDAY 15 Glasgow
0 8N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30 pm. £2.50—£9.~10 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). More Rail. Steam and Speed. this time in lighter mood from the King’s Singers. including Stormy Weather. I‘m A Train and - where the rest of us are usually sent tosing— In The Bath.
0 Washington Ensemble Glasgow Arts Centre. 12 Washington Street. 221 4526. 7.30pm. £3 and £1. An all Mozart programme conducted by Centre Director Graeme
The London Festival Orchestra. See listings Sun 14 June in St. Mary‘s Cathedral.
McKinnon. Clare Johnson ofthe SNO is the soloist in Mozart’s Oboe Concerto. The Divertimento K138 and Symphony No 29 make up the rest of the programme.
0 Cathedral Classics by London Festival Orchestra Paisley Abbey. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre) or 887 1007 (Paisley Town Hall). 7.30pm. £2.50'£-l.50. Another attractive programme from the I.F(). Marcello‘s ()boe Concerto with Malcolm Messiter. Vivaldi's Gloria and works by Handel. Mozart and Copland. With Lorna Anderson. Judith Harris and Paisley Abbey Choir. directed by George McPhee. see also Sunday 14. Edinburgh and photo.
TUESDAY 16 Glasgow
0 RSAMD Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Nelson Mandela Place. Free at door. Competition continues throughout the day. Students compete for the Glasgow Society of Musicians Prize in the woodwind and piano section.
0 3N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.40 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). Encapsulating the theme of this year’s Proms is Rain. Steam and Speed by Douglas Young. Violinist Lorraine McAslan is sure to find plenty speed in .‘vlendelssohn‘s Violin Concerto and who knows what combination of all three James Loughran might find in Schubert's 9th Symphony.
Edinburgh
0 Sitar Music St Cecilia's Hall. Cowgate. 7.30pm. £2.50. Tickets at door or from Kalpna Restaurant. 2 St Patrick Square. A concert of Indian classical music by Budhaditya (sitar) and Anindo Chatterjee (tablas).
WEDNESDAY 17 Glasgow
0 8N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—,£9.-10 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). Gipsy melodies from the SN() with leader Edwin Paling playing solo violin and James Loughran conducting.
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O A Flute Soiree Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Nelson Mandela Place. Free at door. 7.30pm. Students and friends ofthe RSAMD present an evening ofdelights for flute. accompanied by delights for the palate in the form of wine and cheese.
THURSDAY 18 Glasgow
0 3N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.40 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). Neville Garden. known to many through presenting (ioml Morning Scotland. is the narrator in Strav'insky’s Soldier‘s Tale. Also a Musical Joke from Mozart (and. no. it's not the one about Bach and the spinster in the attic) and Martinu's Le Revue de Cuisine.
0 Music in the Galleries Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. Free at door. 1pm. A lunchtime concert from pupils of Douglas Academy. the specialist music school.
FRIDAY 19 Glasgow
0 3N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.40 (series discounts available) (children £2.50). Lots ofstirring tunes in tonight's Prom of music by Ifiiiescu. Glinka. Glazunov and Dvorak. Neeme Jarvi conducts.
0 Glasgow Arts Centre Chamber Orchestra Glasgow Arts Centre. 12 Washington Street. 221 4526. 7.30pm. £2.50 and .£ 1 . Just before starting off for Poland. this young chamber orchestra give Glasgow audiences the chance of hearing some ofthe Baroque repertoire they‘ve been working on and will be taking with them.
Edinburgh
0 Edinburgh Ouartet Hopetoun House. South Oueensferry. Tickets: 228 l 155 (Usher Hall) or 332 8691 (E0). 8pm. £8 (including wine and canapes). String quartets in upmarket style at one of the stateliest ofstately homes. Beethoven. Schumann and Haydn (Op 77 No l).
0 John Lill Signet Library. Parliament Square. Tickets: 041 332 72-14 (SNO). 8pm. £8 (including wine). Normally out of bounds to anyone who‘s not a Writer to the Signet. their splendid library is opened up for concerts tonight and tomorrow night. This one is a highly sociable fund-raising do put on by Friends ofthe SNO with John I.i|l's choice including Beethoven‘s Appassionata Sonata. Chopin's F minor Ballade and Schumann‘s Carnival.
SATURDAY 20 Glasgow
0 3N0 Proms Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets: 552 5961 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2.50—£9.40 (series
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