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FRIDAY 5 JUNE: The QUEEN 'S HALL, Clerk Street, Edinburgh Tickets: £8.50, £6.50, £5.00 (all reserved) from Queen's Hall box office (031-668 2019), Usher Hall box office (031-228 1155) and all TOCI A outlets (including booking fee). On-stage 8.00pm — no support. Hall Opens 7.30pm; venue bar from 7.00pm. An Aegis Productions event.
SATURDAY 6 JUNE: The MAYFAIR, Sauchiehall Street. Glasgow Tickets: £9.50 (unreserved) from The Mayfair (041-332 3872) and all TOCT A outlets (including booking fee). On—stage 8.00pm - no support. Doors open 7.30pm; bar.
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PIERRE BENSUSAN
"what a guitarist! " 8.00pm SATURDAY 23 MAY The PLEASANCE THEATRE BAR. The Pleasance. Edinburgh. Tickets: £5.50 (£4.00) - all unreserved - from The Queen's Hall box office, Usher Hall box office, Blackfriar's Music, (Blackfriars Street) and at door from 7.30pm; bar. No support.
THE POOZIES
"serious fun music" 8.00pm MONDAY 8 JUNE St BRIDE'S COMMUNITY CENTRE, Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh. Tickets: £5.00 (£3.00) - all unreserved - The Queen's Hall box office. Usher Hall box office. St Bride's (031-346 1405) and at door from 7.30pm; bar. No support.
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KING’ THEATRE
EDINBURG
I North Sea Gas Platform One. Caledonian Hotel. Rutland Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Free. Informal music downstairs.
Saturdays
I Session Green Tree . C owgate. Afternoon. Free.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal music.
Sundays
I Sandy Bell's Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Full Shilling Band Ryric‘s Bar. Haymarket. junction of Dalry Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks, songs and tunes. I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Bannennan's Music Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Bridge Bat Session Bridge Bar. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle music and songs.
I Tron Ceilidh I-louse Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
Tuesdays
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Famous Other Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. free.
Wednesdays
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Big Eyed Beans Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
Thursdays
I Folk Night Nobles. Constitution Street. Leith. 9pm. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm.
I Riptide Scotsman Bar. Cockburn Street. 9pm. Free.
CLASSICAL me-
Concetts are listed by date, then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 22
Glasgow
I Workshop Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1 lam. Free. Open rehearsal of the pieces written by GP. Cribari and Andrew Robson. both RSAMD postgraduate composition students. which feature in today's
lunchtime concert.
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. SCO Chamber Ensemble opens its lunchtime programme with the aptly titled More of a twinge than a pang by G. P. Cribari and finishes with more conventional fare in the form of Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op 115. I Don Giovanni Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 27. Fri 29. Wed 3 (Glasgow); 24 and 261une (Edinburgh). £3—£36. New production with Steven Page in the title role and Gidon Saks as Leperello. Tom Cairns‘s production and design have not been well received by the critics but you can judge for yourself.
Edinburgh
I Scatamuccia St Be rnard's Church. Saxe Coburg Street. Stockbridgc. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). An evening oftrio sonatas and quartets by Handel. Bach. Vivaldi and contemporaries in period performance.
I The Scottish Proms Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1 155. 7.30pm. £3—£l7.50. Opening Night and Sir Alexander Gibson conducts the R50 in lots of pop favourites by Herold. Strauss. Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. Violinist Lorraine McAslan is soloist in the Symphonie Espagnole by Lalo.
SATURDAY 23
Glasgow
I Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Siberian orchestra with conductor Arnold Katz visits Glasgow with a programme of Rimsky-Korsakov. Tchaikovsky and Scriabin.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Concert Band Queen‘s l lall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Nothing too heavy from Stephen F. Callaghan and his band who perform Holst. Grainger. Sparke and a selection from Broadway.
I The Scottish Proms Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £3—£l7.50. Graeme McNaught is soloist in Ravel‘s Piano Concerto in G . which falls between Copland's Rodeo dance episodes and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. James Loughran is conductor.
I Edinburgh University Singers Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.45pm. .lohn Kitchen conducts Bach‘s 8 minor Mass.
SUNDAY 24 Glasgow
I Sunday Organ Concert Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. Free at door. 2.30—3pm and 3.30—4pm. Julian Jefferson is today‘s recitalist.
I Music at the Burrell The Burrell Collection. Pollok Park. Pollokshaws Road. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 3pm. £3 (£2). Regular Sunday afternoon series continues with string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven played by the Alma String Quartet.
Edinburgh
I Friends of Scottish Opera Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 2.30pm. £2. AGM followed by An End of Season Entertainment from Neville Garden.
I St Giles' Cathedral -The New Organ St Giles‘ Cathedral. High Street. 6pm. Free at door. Master of the Music. Herrick Bunney. gives the Inaugural Recital on St Giles' new Rieger organ with a programme of Bach. Messiaen, Kenneth Leighton and Vierne.
I Jubilo Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4.50 (£3.50). Various
38 The List 22 May — 4 June 1992