MUSIC
CLASSICAL
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 15 Glasgow
I 8N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2-£12 (£3). Series discounts available. New Air, Strathspey and Reel by William Sweeney to celebrate Glasgow City of Culture 1990 gets this year‘s Proms off to a swinging start. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts the evening which continues with Verdi, Lizst, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
I Ecossaise Third Eye Centre, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 332 0522. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Quartet of soprano (lrene Drummond), flute (David Davies), viola (James Durrant) and guitar (Philip Thorne) give the Scottish premiere of Scottish Folk Songs and Trio by John Maxwell Geddes. Other music on their all contemporary programme includes A Cauldron of Improvisations, Fast Peace Ill and The Web by Edward McGuire and John Maxwell Geddes Apt. written in 1980.
I Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Cycle Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Tuesday 19. Edinburgh. £5 (£2.50). Gusztav Fenyo continues his series with Op 79, Op 28 Pastoral. Op 10 No 2, Op78 and Op 111.
I BSAMD Junior Oept Concert Guinness Room, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket. Chamber music ensembles from the Academy‘s highly talented Junior School.
SATURDAY 16 Glasgow
I 8N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2-£12 (£3). Series discounts available. The remarkable Evelyn Glennie is soloist in the Concertina for Xylophone and Orchestra by Toshiro Mayuzumi in a concert which also includes Rossini‘s Overture to William Tell and the Little Russian Symphony by Tchaikovsky. Matthias Bamert conducts.
I Weekending Stravinsky Concert Hall. Broadcasting House, BBC , Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Free. Opening concert in this new. short festival is given by the BBC $80 in an all Stravinsky programme of Scherzo a la Russe, Variations for Orchestra, Concerto for Piano and Wind and Symphony in3 Movements.
I Glasgow Opera Group Kilmardinny Arts Centre. 943 0312. 7.30pm. Concert for Bearsden and Milngavie Arts Guild.
I Scottish Chamber Choir Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Edinburgh-based choir moves to Glasgow for a performance of the specially commissioned Cantos Sagrados by James MacMillan and the Requiem by Faure.
I ilyndland Chamber Orchestra St Bride‘s Church, Hyndland Road. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £5 (£2.50). Charity concert with works by Edward McGuire,Thomas Wilson, Beethoven and Haydn featuring Philip Thorne (guitar) and Andrew Webster (clarinet).
Edinburgh
I Come and Sing Verdi’s Requiem Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. Singers— £2 (£1); Audience — £4 (£3). A performance open to singers. instrumentalists and anyone who just wants to listen. Rehearsals are at 11am (choir) and 2.30pm (orchestra). Christopher Bell conducts.
I Royal College oi Music Baroque Orchestra St Cecilia‘s Hall, Cowgatc. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 8pm.
£4.50 (£3). Last of Edinburgh University‘s Summer Concerts season with Catherine Mackintosh directing new arrangements of Gemianiani and J .S. Bach. Pre-concert talk at 7pm.
SUNDAY 17 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival Strings St Andrews Parish Church and Arts Centre. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £3 (£1.50). Sunday afternoon Brandenburg Series continues with No 5, plus Spring and Summer from Vivaldi‘s Seasons. John Purser's Prelude for Viola and Strings and music by Rutter and Telemann.
I Weekending Stravinsky Concert Hall. Broadcasting House. BBC . Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Free. Hindemith creeps in with his Kammermusik No] in an otherwise all Stravinsky programme given by Paragon Ensemble, including Renard, Polka. Ragtime and the Octet.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Sinlonia Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.80(£3/£2). Popular music by Falla. Rodrigo, Ravel and Debussy conducted by Neil Mantle with [an Smith as soloist in Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto.
MONDAY 18 ‘
Glasgow
I Weekending Stravinsky Concert Hall. Broadcasting House, BBC, Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 1pm. Free. Pianist Murray McLachlan plays Stravinsky‘s Circus Polka and 3 movements from Petruschka, as well as works by Prokofiev, Debussy and Busoni.
I BSAMO Open Day RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket.
I Schools Prom Scotland City Hall. Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7pm. £2—£8. Hundreds of young musicians in a three-hour jamboree of classical. pop, jazz and folk music.
Edinburgh
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125. Napier Polytechnic, Dept ofMusic, Sighthill Court. 444 2266. 1pm. Free. Beethoven and his Patrons, a lecture recital by student Alistair Wilson with fellow student instrumentalists.
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept of Music. Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 2.30pm. Free. Competition for the David McMillan Memorial Prize for Brass, adjudicated by David Pryce.
I Lothian Region Schools Orchestra Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 6682019. 7.30pm. £2 (£1). Repeat performance of Spring programme including Offenbach‘s overture to Orpheus in the Underworld , Tchaikovsky‘s Pathétique Symphony and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
I A Midsummer‘s Concert Holy Trinity Church, Haddington. Tickets: 228 1155 (Usher Hall Box Office). 8pm. £4.50 (£3/£1.50). Professional young trio of soprano (Rita Cullis), violin (Anthony Marwood) and piano (Julius Drake) in a programme of duos and trios with particular emphasis on the music of Mozart.
Glasgow
I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 103m. Free at door. The Jan D. Watt Award for strings and piano.
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchcsons‘ Hall, lngram Street. Tickets: at door. 12.45pm. £1.25. Pupils of the Music School of
Douglas Academy in concert.
I Still Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12(£3). Series discounts available. Gilbert and Sullivan Night with lots of the popular favourites conducted by that great G & S fan Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who is joined by Marilyn Hill Smith, Bonaventura Bottone. Richart Suart and the SNO Chorus.
I Weekending Stravinsky City Hall. Candleriggs, 227 5511. 7.30pm. £2—£9 (£1.50—£7.50). Last concert in this mini-festival brings the return of the BBC Scottish under their conductor J erzy Maksymuik for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade and Stravinsky‘s Petruschka (1947).
Edinburgh
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125. Napier Polytechnic, Dept ofMusic. Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 1pm. Free. Concert by the Napier Jazz Band directed by Stephen McGinty.
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept of Music. Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 2.30pm. Free. Competition for the String Prize, adjudicated by Edna Arthur.
I Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Cycle Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5/£6.50 (£4/£5.5()). See Friday 15, Glasgow.
WEDNESDAY 20 Glasgow
I 8N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12(£3). Series discounts available. Young Scottish pianist David Home is soloist in Ge rshwin‘s Rhapsody in Blue, one ofthe highlights oftonight‘s Broadway Melody theme. Carl Davis conducts.
I Music in Architecture Hutchesons’ Hall. Ingram Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £12.50 (inc supper with wine). Concert Royal. a performance in period dress ofthe music of Georgian England, to include Arne‘s Shakespearian Songs and Handel‘s Fireworks.
Edinburgh
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept of Music, Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 10am. Free. Competition for the woodwind prize adjudicated by Richard Chester.
I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George, George Street. 12.30pm—1pm. Dennis Townhill ofSt Mary‘s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh plays the Wells-Kennedy organ.
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept ofMusic. Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 1pm. Free. John McLeod directs a concert of new works by student composers (seven of them altogether and all male).
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept ofMusic. Sighthill Court, 444 2266. 2.30pm. Free. Competition for the Piano/Percussion Prize, adjudicated by Audrey Innes.
I Edinburgh Quartet Hopetoun House, South Queensferry. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall)/228 1155 (Usher Hall). 8pm. £10 (incl canapes, wine and viewing of the house). String quartets by Mozart (Hoffmeister), Walton (A minor) and Brahms (Op 67 in B flat).
URSDAY 21
Glasgow
I Competition Guinness Room, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. Keyboard players compete for the Bach Prize (Class B).
I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2 (£1 .50). Handel andth
Contemporaries - the music of Georgian England performed on instruments ofthe period (cello. flute. harpsichord and voice).
I 3N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2-£12 (£3). Series discounts available. The orchestra is joined by the Choir of King‘s College. Cambridge and their conductor Stephen (.‘leobury for Handel‘s Zadok the Priest, Haydn‘s Nelson Mass and the Requiem by Faure. I Amiad Ali Khan Pavilion Theatre. 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £5—£10. Asian Artistes present lndia‘s youngest top rank sarod player,
Edinburgh
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125. Napier Polytechnic. Dept of Music. Sighthill Court. 444 2266. 10.30am. Free. Competition for the Harold Gray Memorial Prize for Singers. adjudicated by Joan Busby.
I Napier Polytechnic Symphonic Wind Band Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£2). More Stravinsky (see Weekending Stravinsky. Glasgow, above) and another chance to hear the Concerto for Piano and Wind . as well as Weiil's Little Thrupemty Music and works by Fisher-Tull and Chance. Christopher Bell conducts.
I St Mary’s Music School Queen‘s l lall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50 (free). World Music Day Concert with a programme to include Mendelssohn's Octet and Stravinsky"s Concerto in I) for strings, as well as The Wanderer a song cycle by young composer Torquil Munro.
FRIDAY 22 Glasgow
I Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Governors‘ Recital Prize.
I 8N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12 (£3). Series discounts available. Beethoven‘s Triple (‘oncerto for violin. cello and piano, Dvorak‘s New World and. to start. the St Kentigern Suite by Thomas Wilson.
I Chorus lntemational Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (£2—£6). First concert in this new festival is given to the Choir ofKing‘s College Cambridge who give the premiere of Martin Dalby's E! Resurrexit. along with works by Herbert Howells. Kenneth Leighton and the Requiem by Durufle.
I Edinburgh Quartet Hutchesons‘ Hail. lngram Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 8pm. £4.50 (£3). Dvorak‘sAmerican. Mozart‘s K464 and the String Quartet No 3 by Hans Gal.
Edinburgh
I Napier Polytechnic Music Festival Room 125, Napier Polytechnic, Dept ofMusic. Sighthill Court. 444 2266. 12pm. Free. Concert by the Napier Chamber Ensemble with student soloists Debbie Swanson (violin) and Wendi Kelly (viola) directed by Margaret Murray McLeod.
I Lunchtime Prom Royal Scottish Academy. The Mound. 225 3922. 1.05pm. £3. Highlight of this season‘s short series to coincide with the RSA‘s Annual Exhibition is Richard Baker and Music in My Life. a programme on some ofhis favourite music.
SATURDAY 23 Glasgow
I RSAMO Junior Department Orchestra and Choir Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. £4 (£3.50/£2/£l.50). Programme. to be conducted by James Durrant and Walter Blair. includes Party Piece for piano and orchestra by Richard Rodney Bennett
I 8N0 Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227
42 The List 15—28June 1990