The List: 23 Nov 1990 (57/104)

CLASSICAL

7.30pm. £4 (£2). Wind ensemble and concert band under conductor Edgar Williams in a selection of works by John Ireland. Enesco. Horowitz and some arrangements from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

I Columba Glasgow Cathedral. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat lat 2.30pm. £6—£10 (£3—£5). See Tue 27.

I Festival of Jewish Culture Kelvingrovc Art Galleries. Tickets: 227 5511(Tickct Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £8 (£6). Scratch performance ofGershwin favourite. Porgy and Bess. as part ofthc Festival ofJewish Culture. The SCO takes the lead. Christopher Bell conducts and soloists include Jo-Ann Pickens and Daniel Washington.

Edinburgh

I Murray International Whitburn Band Queen‘s Ilall. Clerk Street. 6682019. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). An evening with Goff Richards and Friends in aid ofthe Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children.

FRIDAY 30 Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Eight string players from the RSAMD in Mendelssohn's ()ctet preceded by Puccini's Crt'santemt' in the first performance using the Cremona Instruments presented to the RSAMD by Shell L'K Ltd for Glasgow 1990.

I Tosca Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7. 15pm. £3—£30. Final performance of Scottish Opera's revival of one oftheir most popular productions. Puccini’s original I800setting updatedto Mussolini's fascist Italy of 1943. Sir Alexander Gibson conducts and the Armenian soprano Maria Abajan is in the title role. I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). See Sun 25. Edinburgh. I Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street.332 3123. 7.30pm. £7—£9. St Andrew's Night Gala Concert.

Edinburgh

I Organ Recital McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 1 . 10pm. Free at door. French organ music by Vierne. Dupre and Berveiller played by D'Arcy Trinkwon.

I 8N0 Usher 1 Tall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 1.G1asgow. £3—£15 (£3). Linda Finnie is soloist in Mahler's Symphony No 4. which is partnered with his Lieder einesfahrenden

: (it'sellen and Stravinsky"s Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Neeme Jarvi conducts.

I 8N0 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 332 3123. 7.3(1pm.£3.50—£15(£3). See Fri 30. Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I Piccolo Pack Queen's Ilall. Clerk Street. 6682019. 11am. Extradate: Sun2. Glasgow. £1 "75p (adults £2). Oolie McDoolie and the SCO in French frolics for kids.

I St Mary’s Music School Concert Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen's Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £2.50. A programme of Slavonic music front Scotland‘s only independent school for musically gifted children. Nigel Murray directs chamber music and orchestral works by Suk. Rachmaninov. Dvorak. Smetana. Prokofiev and Janacek.

I Edinburgh University Musical Society McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. Berlioz's Harold in Italy and the Symphony No 2 by Nielsen.

I Scottish Ensemble Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £8.50(£4/£6). Various Vivaldi concertos for solo instruments. Bartok's Divertimento and the Concerto in 1) major by Stravinsky.

SUNDAY 2 Glasgow

I Piccolo Pack City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 3pm. See Sat 1.Edinburgh.

Edinburgh

I Family Favourite Spectacular Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4.50 (£4). The Scottish Concert Orchestra and The Edinburgh Singers in an unashamedly popular classics evening.

MONDAY 3 Glasgow

I Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free. The Governors‘ Recital Prize Competition for brass.

I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Free. The Glasgow Jewish Choral Society Prize Competition for vocal ensemble.

Edinburgh

I ECAT Contemporary Music Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £5 (£2). The Delme String Quartet give a portrait of Icelandic composer Haﬂidi Hallgrimsson.

' includingthe premiere of hisln ‘ Memorram Bryn 'I'urley.

I Edinburgh University Chamber Choir Reid '

Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. £3.50 (£2). A concert of music by Byrd and Leighton conducted by NicholasJones.

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Glasgow

I Columba Glasgow Cathedral. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 2.30pm. £6—£10(£3—£5). See Tue 27.

I HSAMD Junior Dept Stevenson Hail. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. Admission free by ticket. A programme of music for wind and brass directed by Lance Green.

I Music In Architecture BP Exploration. St Vincent Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £12.50 (incl fork supper with wine). The Salon Orchestra. with Linda Ormiston and Donald Maxwell. conducted by Neville Garden. Favourite melodies in a palm court setting.

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Glasgow

I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm. £1.25. Leonard Friedman (violin) and Allan Schiller (piano) return to Strathclyde University's lunchtime series with the Serenade by Leon Coates. Schubert's Sonata in A. D574 and the Scottish Suite by Ronald Stevenson.

I Chamber Music Concert Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Admission free by ticket. A concert by chamber ensembles made up of students at the RSAMD.

I Glasgow Harpsichord Society Pollokshaws Hall. Further information: 882 6127. 7.30pm. £2. John Kitchen conducts a masterclass with some ofhis students.

Edinburgh

I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. The Edinburgh Quartet plays Britten's first String Quartet and Haydn‘s Op 55 No l in A major.

Krettrzer.

I Lunchtime Concert Concert Ilall. Glasgow University. Free at door. 1.15pm. .lltcslque ti Versailles. works by I’hilidor. Marais and Couperin played on

WEDNESDAY 5 Glasgow

I Stakis Masterclass Guinness Roont.

RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. original instruments by James iiastaw ay. 2pm. Free. Carlos Bonell directs agurtar baroque oboe. Lucy Robinson. bass viol. masterclass. and David .‘yIcGuinness. harpsichord.

I Composition Workshop Concert 1 Iall. Glasgow University. Free at door. 3pm. Composer I Iaﬂidi Hallgrimsson with guitarist I’eturJonasson. l

THURSDAY 6 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants 1 Tall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£1 .50). Lunchtime music from Edwin and Elizabeth Paling who plav Beethoven Violin Sonatas ()p 12 No 3 and The

I celebrity Recital Stevenson IIall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7.50(£5). Art eveniitgot music for guitar played by Carlos Bonell. includes Walton's I‘rve litigate/It's. Qriatrr' pieces hret'es by Frank Martin and tire Sonata 0/) 47 by Ginastera. Edinburgh

I Edinburgh University Renaissance . Singers Reid Concert Hall. Br‘istoSqiiare. | 1.10pm. Free at door. A programme of Renaissance sacred music arid carols for Christmas directed by Noel ()‘Regan.

geottish Early Music Gonsort LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT

Music and dance from Florence during the rule (1469-92) of Lorenzo de'Medici

Friday 7 December 1990 8pm Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, Glasgow Saturday 8 December 1990 7.45pm The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

TICKETS Glasgow: RSAMD 041 332 5057 or Ticket Centre 041 227 5511 Edinburgh: Queen's Hall 031 668 2019 or Usher Hall ()31 228 1155

Principal Sponsor

LHARTERHOUSE

TUESDAY 4

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL

MON 26 NOVEMBER 1990

Debussy: Marthe Etossaise Elgar: Violin Concerto

MarMillan: The Confession

of Isobel Gowdie Debussy: Iberia VIOLIN: IDA HAENDEL CONDUCTORzlERZY MAKSYMIUK

FRI 7 DECEMBER 1990

Mahler: Symphony No.2 ’The Resurrection’ SOPRANO:YVONNE KENNY

MEZZO SOPRANO: SARAH WALKER

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL CHORUS CONDUCTOR: LEOPOLD HAGER

The List: 23 Nov 1990 (Issue 136)