MUSIC CLASSICAL
5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12 (£3). Series discounts available. An English night tonight with Elgar. Vaughan Williams and Britten’s Young Person ’3 Guide to the Orchestra. Brydcn Thomson conducts.
I Chorus International Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (£2—£6). Groupe Vocal de France directed by Guy Rcibcl in a 20th century programme ofchoral music by Poulenc. Xenakis and Ligeti.
SUNDAY 24 Glasgow
I Sunday Prorn Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 2pm—4.30pm. Free. Informal organ recital — the last in this regular fortnightly series.
I St Mary's Music School Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £2.50 (free). Ex-pupilClaire Docherty returns to the orchestra of her 31d school to play Mozart's Violin Concerto K218. Following that comes Stravinksy‘s (‘oncertofor Strings and the Mendelssohn Octet. Jerzy Maksymuik conducts.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Singers and Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4.50 (£4). Mozart‘s Requiem and the Adagio for strings by Barber conducted by Gordon Williamson.
MONDAY 25 Glasgow
IThe Portrait oi Manon/Dr Miracle New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Tuesday 26. Wednesday 27. Thursday 28. £4 (£3.50/£2/£1.50). Double bill of Massenet and Bizet from the RSAMD Opera Class takes the two composers‘ comedies about young people who want to be married.
I Chorus International Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (£2—£6). The Vampire Strikes Back. a strange tale set in a Gothic prep school in the summer of 1944. as told by VOCEM electric voice theatre. 1ncludes 50children from Strathclyde Region.
TUESDAY 26
Glasgow
I The Portrait oi Manon/Dr Miracle New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wednesday 27. Thursday 28. £4 (£3.50/£2/£1.50). See Monday 25.
I St“) Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12 (£3). Series discounts available. Lots of favourite songs and arias from the world of opera performed by soprano Jane Eaglen and tenor Dennis O‘Neill. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts. I Chorus International Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (£2—£6). Fourth concert in this exciting new festival is given by Collegium Vocale of Ghent who perform Bach‘s 8 minor Mass.
I Tel-Aviv Quartet Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£6.50). Festival ofJewish Culture presents the Tel-Aviv String Quartet with Eli Eban in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet. Beethoven's Op 95. Serioso. Haydn‘s Op 20 No 4 and the first quartet by Joseph Tal.
Edinburgh
I Madame Butterfly Playhouse Theatre, Greenside Place. top of Leith Walk. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra date: Saturday 30. £5—£17.50. Scottish Opera‘s Edinburgh
week opens with their revival ofNuria Espert‘s stunning production. Cio-Cio San is sung by Anne-Williams King. John Mauceri conducts.
I St George's School Concert Queen‘s
Hall. Clerk Street. 7.30pm. Orchestral works by Strauss. Beethoven. Mendelssohn. Bruch. Crusell and Sousa.
WEDNESDAY 27 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival Strings Merchants' Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 1pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Final concert in the Teacher‘s Mozart Piano Concerto Series has no Mozart but Gordon Jacob's Concerto for Accordion (soloist Una Bryson). Also Haydn‘s Toy Symphony. Molly on the Shore by Grainger and. to open. Bach 's Brandenburg Concerto No 3. I The Portrait oi Manon/Dr Miracle New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. Extra date: Thursday 28. £4 (£3.5()/£2/£1 .50). Sec Monday 25.
I SNO Proms Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2—£12 (£3). Series discounts available. The SNO Chorus teams up with the orchestra for Beethoven's Choral Symphony. The Symphony No 8 is in the first half and it's all under the baton of Norman del Mar.
Edinburgh
I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. 12.30pm—1pm. Stephen Doughty. winner ofthe Anderson Organ Prize. gives today’s short recital. Light lunches in the Undercroft.
I Cosl ian tutte Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. top of Leith Walk. 557 2590. 7.15pm. Extra date: Friday 29. £5—£l7.50. Scottish Opera with one of Mozart‘s most sublime scores. Young British singers Jane Eaglen (Fiordilgi). Clare Shearer (Dorabclla) and Simon Keenlyside are joined by American tenor Thomas Randle to make up the two pairs of lovers.
THURSDAY 28 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchant's Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £2 (£1.50). Award-winning pianist Graeme McNaught gives the third ofhis recitals in this popular lunchtime series. Today he plays Schumann’s Kinderscenen and the B minor Sonata Op 58 by Chopin. I The Portrait oi Manon/Dr Miracle New Athenaeum Theatre. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £4 (£3.50/£2/£1.50). See Monday 25.
I SNO Prorns Kelvin Hall. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £2-£12 (£3). Series discounts available. Proms favourite James Loughran conducts popular classics including Tchaikovsky‘s Romeo andJuliet and the Bruch Violin Concerto.
I Chorus International Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (£2—£6). The Hilliard Ensemble in the first oftwo concerts of music by Estonian composer Arvo Part. Tonight it‘s his StJohn Passion. Next concert Friday 29.
Edinburgh
I Salome Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. top of Leith Walk. 557 2590. 7.15pm. £5—£17.50. One Edinburgh performance only of this fabulous production of Strauss‘s version ofOscar Wilde‘s stage poem. Cynthia Makris is Salome, Eduardo Alvares is Herod. Elizabeth Vaughan Heriodas. Greer Grimsley a superb Jokanaan and John Mauceri conducts.
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