MUSIC LIST
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I Music is listed as diary: by day. then by city. then by event.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 25 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival at British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5. Beethoven‘s Egmont Overture. Mozart's Horn Concerto No 3 and Variationsfor Orchestra by Sallinen. I Music at the Burrell Lecture Theatre. Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. 2060 Pollokshaws Road. 649 7151 . Tickets atdoor. 12.30pm. £2.50(£1.50).The Morley String Quartet return to this series of lunchtime music with Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet Op 13 and Shostakovich No 3.
ATURDAY 26 < lasgow
I l Pagliacci/Cavalleria Busticana New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfretw Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra date: Tuesday 29. £8 (£4). Scottish Opera Go Round in new double bill and the first of 26 performances in venues all over Scotland. Robert Dean conducts. Mike Ashman directs. the cast includes Alexander Morrison. Colin McKerracher. Carol Rowlands and the phenomenal Mark Dorrell is back at the piano. somehow making up for a full orchestra. I Glasgow Festival ot British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Over 100 under 14 year-olds make up the National Children's Orchestra who. under Christopher Adey. give a varied programme of Grieg. Vaughan Williams. Lutoslawski. Massenet and Kenneth Leighton.
SUNDAY 27
I Music at the Burrell Lecture Theatre. Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. 2060 Pollokshaws Road. 649 7151 . Tickets at door. 12.30pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Sandra Porter (mezzo) and Anne Chaurand (lute and guitar) perform traditional 16th century Scottish arrangements. plus music by Dowland. Handel and Falla.
MONDAY 28 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival at British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). North Yorkshire Schools‘ Symphony Orchestra play the Prelude to Act lll ofWanger‘s Lohengrin. Bizet‘s Carmen Suites 1 and 2 and finish up with Tchaikovsky‘s Symphony No4.
MUSIC
TUESDAY 29 Glasgow
I I Pagliacci/Cavalieria Busticana New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). See Saturday 26 for full description. I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/childrcn. students. unemployed. disabled free). Music for brass from West Lothian Schools‘ Brass Band and conductor Glyn Bragg includes works by Vaughan Williams. Martin Dalby. Bruce Fraser and William Relton. I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Studio 1. BBC. Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: from BBC Reception or Room 209. 7.30pm. Free. Recording for future r_adio broadcast of Brahms‘ Violin Concerto and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. Takuo Yuasa conducts.
I Music at the Burrell Lecture Theatre. Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. 2060 Pollokshaws Road. 649 7151 . Tickets at door. 12.30pm. £2.50(£1.50). Handyworks Puppet Co present an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor and the Nightingale with music specially composed by Jeremy Randalls. Likely to appeal to older children and adults.
WEDNESDAY 30 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival at British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). The overture Romeo andJuIiet by Tchaikovsky kicks off Cornwall Youth Orchestra‘s programme. which also includes Peter Maxwell Davies‘Orkney Wedding with Sunrise (can they really have found a piper for thisin Cornwall? ). Walton’s Viola Concerto and the Symphonic Metamorphoses by Hindemith.
THURSDAY 31 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival at British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3.50 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra in a programme of mainly English music by Parry. Elgar (Introduction andAllegro). Malcolm Arnold (Symphony No 2). Excerpts from Berlioz‘s Romeo andJuIiet complete the programme.
RIDAY 25
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston. 9—1 1.45pm. £1. Singaround.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street . 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Live band. Very popular.
SATURDAY 26
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Live instrumental music.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music. This week Heather lnnes and Seamus Boyle.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Regular weekly dance.
SUNDAY 27
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music. Ex-New Celeste singer and guitarist Marysia and Jim.
MONDAY 28
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents records. news and live recordings.
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Weekly session.
TUESDAY 29
I Glasgow Songwriters Cooperative Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 221 4526. 8pm. 2nd oftwo weekly meetings. Definitely not restricted to folk song. All songwriters welcome. For more details phone Brian Rutherford. 9561783 or Danny Carroll. 647 2814.
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. , New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Tonight East Coast funnyman with a fine singing voice. Tich Frier.
WEDNESDAY 30
I Merchant City Folk Club Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 8pm. No guests booked. take your instrument or voice for a Singaround
I Follt Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live acoustic music. Martin Lyne
THURSDAY 31
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Tonight special guests from Hungary Maitvirag. See panel
JAZZ BLUES
FRIDAY 25
I Live Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 9pm. AboutTime with reeds. guitar. double bass and drums.
SATURDAY 26
I Bill Fanning Orchestra Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 2pm. £1. Weekly event.
I George McGowan Orchestra Berlin Lounge Bar. 8— 10 West George Street. Queen Street Station. 335 2382. 2-5pm. Free. The Big Band repertoire.
I Blues Night Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 9pm. Bo Weevil. Edinburgh R&B.
SUNDAY 27
I Rosslea Jazz Night Rosslea Hotel. Rhu. Helensburgh. 8pm—11pm. Free. With the Sandy Taylor and Friends.
I Tribute To Duke Ellington Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8pm. £1 . Tenor player and leader ofthe Bobby Deans Big Band puts together an evening homage.
I Paisley Arts Jazz Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 887 1010. Lunchtime from 12.30pm. Bobby Deans Ouartet. As you can see above. the Glasgow horn player is working hard today.
I Tim Barella Big Band Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 2pm. Non members £1 .
I Ah Umm Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 9pm. Laid-hack quartet. with Hawaiian sax/clarinet player.
I George Penman‘s Jazz Band Curlers. Byres Road. 334 1284. Trad from 8.30—10.50pm. Traddies.
I Another Hairdo 0‘ Henry‘s. Kelvinbridge. Great Western Road. 9 till late. Young indie-jazzers. piano/sax/guitar.
MONDAY 28
I Mondays Jazz Gillespies. 26 (.‘heapesidc Street. off Broomielaw. 221 7704. 9pm. Residents traddies kit Carey's Jam Band.
TUESDAY 29
I Bobby Wishart Group Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Leading Glasgow saxophonist.
I Dig Jazz Night Boswell Hotel. Mansion House Road. Langside. 8pm. Trumpeter George Ogilvie leads Trad and Dixie night.
WEDNESDAY 30
I Sandy Taylor/Alex Moore Duo Glasgow Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm. 50p. Bar.
THURSDAY 31
I Chicit Lyall and George Lyle Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Evening. Top rate young composer jazz keyboard player.
Edinburgh
I Gary Clail's On-U Sound System War Club. Venue. Calton Road. 5573073. First of two nights. No live acts. as such. other than the magic fingers of Gary Clail on the faders. In the past this bone-crunching set-up has gone out under the name of Tackhead Sound System. Now you get the idea. See Nightlife for details.
I The Coldcut Crew Club Sandino. Madison‘s. Greenside Place. llpm—4am. £3.75 (£3) Unprecedented clash tonight and tomorrow. with Gary Clail‘s date colliding with a guest appearance on the Sandino‘s turntables of the rather wealthier Coldcut Crew. producers. mixers and remixers of the stars: Yazz. Eric B & Rakim and Cleveland Watkissto name but three. See Nightlife for details. I Tam White Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. The gravelly-voieed Edinburgh blues singer — with echoes of Howlin‘ Wolf. Beefheart and Waits ~
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