MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
EDINBURGH
Fridays
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Accordion attd guitar in the bar.
I North Sea Gas Platform ()nc. Caledonian Hotel. Rutland Street. Popular Scots entertainers.
I Mhairi 0' Reilly Ensign Iiwart. Lawnmarket. top of l ligh Street. 9pm. I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. [)ownstairs songs with gttitar etc. upstairs bar with piano.
Saturdays
I Black Orpheus Queen Street ()ystcr Bar. Junction of Queen Street and I Ianover Street. l—4pm. Cosmopolitan musicon accordion and guitar.
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Celtic music on guitar. mandolin and fiddle.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Highlanders‘ haunt. Accordion guitar in the bar.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top oingh Street. 9pm.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Informal music with Sam Whalem.
Sundays
I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Flaere Hllssen L‘ Odeon. George [V Bridge. 9pm. Unique songwriting guitar _ player from across the pond.
I Absent Friends Fairmile Inn. Fairmilehead. 8.30pm. Acoustic electric trio. vocals from Iain MacNair.
I Muckle Ado L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-12.30am. Singalong Scottish folkies.
I Full Shillling Band Ryrie's Bar. Haymarket. junction of Dairy Road. 9pm. Alternate weeks. songs and tunes.
I Bannerman's Music Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Fiddle music with Sophie and Robin.
I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Singerand melodeon player.
Mondays
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings frotn the Scottish folk scene. I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. 229 2665. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
Tuesdays
I Fiaere Nilssen Queen Street Oyster Bar. Hanover and Queen Street. 9pm.
Transatlantic songwriter guitarist.
I Eat the Seals L‘Attachc". basement of
Rutland Ilotel. West End. 9pm. Rockin‘
7 bluegrass.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar.
1. Cow-gate. 9pm.
Wednesdays
5 I Misfits St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 9pm. Great female duo. I Black Orpheus Shore Bar. The Shore.
Leith. 9pm. Eclectic duo on guitarand accordion.
I Zydeco L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Rockin' cajun.
Thursdays
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
I Just the Very Donkeys L'Attaché. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Electric Blues.
I Soothmooth Hendersons. Hanover Street. 8.30pm. Fiddle music.
I Little Green Monkeys Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Vocals. guitar and fiddle.
42 The List 19 April — 2 May 1991
. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
contemporary duo. I
I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitarist Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
I Accordion Night Glencairn Hotel. Royal Circus. 9pm.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 19
Glasgow
I Conducted Tour Glasgow Royal Concert Ilall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 10am—4pm. on the hour. every hour. Extra dates: on every day. including Suns. £1 (50p). A chance to see round Glasgow‘s new super-duper concert hall.
I Midday Concert Stevenson I Iall.
1pm. Admission free by ticket. Trios and
' sonatas by Handel. Purcell. Corelli. Biber
and Vivaldi played on original instruments by the Academy of Ancient Music.
I Stakis Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 3325057. 2.30pm. Free at door. A demonstration;workshop on Baroque string instruments by today‘s lunchtime performers.
I Cavalleria Rustlcana/Pagliacci King‘s Theatre. 227 5511. 7.15pm. Extra date: Sat 20 at 2.15pm and 7.15pm.£4—£7. Annual production from Glasgow Grand Opera Society. well known for the high standard of its performances. moves this year to favourite double bill ofone-act operas by Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
I Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £5—£25. The centenary of Prokofiev‘s birth is celebrated by the RPO and Vladimir Ashkenazy who play
excerpts from Romeo andJuliet and the
Violin Concerto No 1 with Boris Belkin as . soloist. Strav'insky‘s Rite ofSpring .
completes the programme. i : I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall. 5
RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
; 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 20. Edinburgh.£7 '
(£4). More familiar works from the Scottish Ensemble. [zine kleine .V'aclitmustk. the Serenade for Strings by Elgar. Barber's Adagio and Verklarte .V’acltt by Schoenberg.
Edinburgh 3
I RSNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 20. Glasgow. £3—£15 (£3). Keeping last week's sea theme afloat. tonight's concert starts with Four Sea lnterludes from Peter Grimes by Britten. Change ofstyle with Brahms's Symphony No I and the Cello Concerto by Shostakovich. Robert Cohen is soloist and Richard I {ickox conducts.
SATURDAY 20 Glasgow
I Opera Study Day Dept of Adult and Continuing Studies. Glasgow University. ‘ Further info: 248 4567 (Friends ofScottish 1 Opera). 10.30am—5pm. £9 (£7). Acloser look at Rossini and The Barber ofSeville. opening later this week at the Theatre Royal.
I Falstaff Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 27. 2 and 22 Mayat 7.15pm. £3—£30. New Scottish Opera production offavourite Verdi comic masterpiece. his last opera. based on Shakespeare's famous fat figure. : Falstaff. played by Scottish baritone I Gordon Sandison.
I Cavalierla Hustlcana/Pagllaccl King's Theatre. 227 5511. 2.15pm and 7.15pm. £4—£7. See Fri 20.
I RSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £3.50—£15 (£3). See Fri 19. Edinburgh. I Prokofiev Centenary Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332
5057. 8pm. £7 (£4). 1987 Leeds Piano Competition winner Vladimir Ovchinikov plays four pieces from Cinderella and the Sonata No 6 by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov’s Etudes- 'l'ableaut' 0p 3 9.
Edinburgh
I Family Choice Piccolo Pack Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 11am. £2 (£1/75p). ()olie McDoolie takes the SCO through the world of orchestral music with a little help from his friends in the young audience. Free juice and mini rolls from Family Choice.
I Masterpieces lorthe Harpsichord St Cecilia‘s Hall. Cowgate. Further info: 668 2232 (The Italian Institute). 7.45pm. £7 (£4). Iixtra date: Mon 23. Glasgow. Rita Peiretti plays music by Merula. Frescobaldi. Pasiello. Galttppi. Paradisi and Scarlatti.
I Scottish Ensemble Queen‘s l Iali. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50—£8.50. See Fri 19. Glasgow.
SUNDAY 21
Glasgow
I Afternoon Concert Princes Square. Buchanan Street. 2—3.30pm. Free. Musical entertainment for children provided by the SCO.
I Organ Concert Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 2.30pm. Free at door. A promenade concert.
I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2.30pm. £7 (£4). Russian cello music by Shostakovich — Sonata — and Prokofiev — Ballade and Sonata - performed by Alla Vasilycva and Alexei Smitov.
I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £7 (£4). The Rostov Philharmonic String Quartet in a
Soviet Scottish programme which has Thomas Wilson's Quartet No 4 framed by the Quartet No 1 by Prokofiev and the Quartet in Fby Ravel.
I Good Shepherd Chorus Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 9430256. 8pm. Free with retiring collection for charity. Stirring stuff in the form of
I Iandel's Zadok the Priest and Mozart‘s Coronation Mass with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 falling in between? Robert Burns conducts.
Edinburgh
I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. £5.50/£8.50(£2.75 £4.25). Eleven-year-old prodigy. Alyosha Khevelev. takes a look at the young Prokofiev. as well as presenting pieces by young modern Soviet composers.
I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5.50 £8.50(£2.75/£4.25). Russian songs by Glinka. Rachmaninov. Prokofiev and Mussorgsky performed by the soprano Melanie Armistcad accompanied by David Mason.
MONDAY 22 "
Glasgow
I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Watson Forbes Prize for viola players.
I Masterpieces lorthe Harpsichord Concert Hall. Glasgow University. Further info: ()31668 2232 (The Italian Institute). 7.45pm. See Sat 20. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5.50/£8.50 (£2.751£4.25). The Rostov Philharmonic String Quartet. regarded as one ofthe best in the USSR. playthe String Quartet No 2 by Prokofiev. the String Quartet No 13 by Myaskovsky and the String Quartet No 8 by Shostakovich.
l TUESDAY 23
Glasgow
I Open Rehearsals Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 3325057. 9.30am. Extra date: Wednesday 24. Free at door. Public orchestral rehearsalsof concertos by students at the RSAMD. I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons' Ilall. 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15pm. £1.25. Songs for soprano and piano by Mozart. Wolf and Turina performed by Patricia MacMahon and Margaret Wakeford. I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street.332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). John Lill playsthe piano sonatas Nos 6. 7. 8 and 9 by.who else'.’. Prokofiev. I A Celebration of Cultures City l lall. ' Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm.£3.50 (£1.50). A celebration of cultures from far away places such as South America. Africa. the South Pacific and the Far East ; in an SCO development project involving I local Glasgow communities. the SCO and l led by composer Nigel Osborne. , I Glasgow Harpsichord Society Pollokshaws Hall. Further info: 882 6127 ' (GHS). 7.30pm. £2 (non-members). A i demonstration of dances. including some Scottish ones. from the 17th and 18th centuries led by Joan English and featuring the Edinburgh Early Dancers in full historical costume. with live music ; played by Edinburgh Baroque.
Edinburgh
I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall.
; Bristo Square. Free at door. 1.10pm. The
New Music Group of Scotland. in a rare
appearance these days. gives the premiere
of their specially commissioned Wind
Quintet by the Icelandic composer I Iaflidi
Hallgrimsson. Like the New Zealand born
Lyell Cresswcll. whose Silver Pipes of Ur
completes the programme. Hallgrimsson
has now made Scotland his base. Edward
E Harper directs.
| I Prokoliev Centenary Festival Queen‘s
Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm.
£5.50/£8.51)(£2.75’£4.25). The young
Scottish pianist Murray McLachlan
l completes his cycle of the Prokofiev piano
l sonatas with nos 2. 5. 3 and 4(1’rom()ld ZN'otebooks ). and 6.
: WEDNESDAY 24 f
‘ Glasgow
I Shoppers' Concert Princes Square.
; Buchanan Street. Free. 3—5pm. Pianist
i Graham Whitelaw in the agreeable
' ambience of Princes Square.
; I Open Rehearsals Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
5.30am. Free at door. See'l‘uesday23.
! I An Evening of Music for Vocal Ensemble
2 Concert Hall. Glasgow University.
! Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£1 .50). To
: include works by the University‘s Gardiner Music Professor. Graham Hair. I Strathclyde University Orchestra Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 8pm. £3.50 (£2). An all-Mozart programme to celebrate his bicentenary year. Katherine Thompson is soloist in the Piano Concerto No 2 7 in B flat.
Edinburgh
I Stockbridge Youth Hecltal Series Stockbridge House. Cheyne Street. 315 2236. 7.30pm. £2.50 (£1). Last in second series of recitals by talented young musicians is given by pupils of St Denis& Cranley School and Mcrchiston Castle School. Proceeds to Edinburgh and Leith Old People‘s Welfare Council forthe benefit of Stockbridge House.
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