CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
I Wally Allen Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I W. J. Christies West Port. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Folk funk session.
I Bridge ear Session Bridge Bar. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle session.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Fiddler’s Arms Grassmarket. Evening. 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman’s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I live Music Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm—late. Free.
Tuesdays
I Auld Toll Bar Tollcross. 8pm. Free. Session.
I International Bar Tarvit Street. 9pm. Session.
I liaeburn Banter-s Holyrood Tavern. Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free.
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Patsy Mack Bannerman’s Bar. Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Wednesdays
I Partisan Bar High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic Irish session.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Jam session.
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Shooglenlity La Belle Angele. Hastie's Close. behind 369 Gallery. Cowgate. Folk . fusion band.
I llell Thompson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal sessions.
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Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical a Opera Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 8
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £2.50 (£1.50). Pianist John Tilbury plays Pages from Treatise by Cornelius Cardew and Suite by Michael Nyman.
I BBC 880 Studio One. BBC. Queen Margaret Drive. Tickets: SSO Concerts Secretary. BBC Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow GIZ 8DG (please enclose s.a.e.). 7.30pm. Free. Programme to include Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2 with Dmitry Sitkovetsky as soloist. Jacek Kapszyk conducts.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall, RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £9 (£5). Bravissimo Backl. an evening of music by Vivaldi. Marcello and J. S. Bach which aims to show some of the Italian influences on Bach’s compositional style.
I HSND Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 9. Glasgow. £4.50-£19 (£3.50). Walter Weller conducts Lathian Dances by Janacek. Piano Concert No 9 K2 7] by Mozart and the Symphony No 8 by Dvorak.
I Border Cathedrals’ Festival St Mary’s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Organ recital by David Hill of Winchester Cathedral. He plays Liszt. Franck. Widor. Saint-Saens and Reger.
I The Pirates oi Perizance King's Theatre. Leven Street. 220 4349. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 9. £7—£I7 (various concessions available). D‘Oyle Carte opera company in ever popular Gilbert and Sullivan satirical operetta subtitled ‘The Slave of Duty‘.
SATURDAY 9
Glasgow
I Tosca Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Wed 3 November. Glasgow; Wed IO November. Edinburgh. £5-£40. A welcome return of Puccini at his most passionate in a production updated to fascist Rome as Floria Tosca attempts to protect her lover Cavaradossi from Scarpia the Chief of Police. Sir Alexander Gibson. Conductor Laureate. conducts and the title role is sung by Eva Zseller.
I RSND Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2
; Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm.
£4.50—£19 (£3.50). See Fri 8. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I The Tale oi Tam O’Shanter Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 686 2019. 11am. £1 (50p). Music for children led by John
Steer. principal bass with the SCO. who
appears this morning with Fife Sinfonia and children from Cuper and Methilhill. Programme includes a new commission from the young Scottish composer
Alasdair Nicholson.
1 I The Pirates of Penzance King’s .
- Theatre. Leven Street. 220 4349. 2.30pm
: and 7.30pm. £8—£19/ha1f price for matinee (various concessions available).
' See Fri 8.
I Border Cathedrals’ Festival St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 11am. Free. Choral Matins sung by the Choir of St Mary‘s Cathedral performing Howells' Collegium Regale and Faire is the heaven by Harris.
I Border Cathedrals’ Festival St Mary‘s Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 7.30pm. £5 (£2/£3). The combined
cathedral choirs of St Mary's. Edinburgh.
Carlisle and Newcastle in the first performance of Salve Regina by Francis Grier. as well as works by Byrd. Schutz and the Durufle Requiem.
SUNDAY 10 i
I City of Glasgow Phllhannonic orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15.50. Gala concert from this highly popular orchestra who play a myriad of well known tunes including Grieg‘s Peer Gynt. Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. Copland's Hoe-Down and many other such favourites. lain Sutherland is conductor and additional performers are Bearsden Burgh Choir and Glasgow Wind Band.
I Hebrides Ensemble Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. Extra date: Mon 11. Edinburgh. £7.50 (£3). Prunella Scales and Sam West join this top class group of chamber musicians for Walton’s Facade. The first half is formed by works from Frank Bridge. Sally Beamish and Edward McGuire’s Quintet No 2.
I live from Studio One BBC. 5 Queen Street. Tickets: Reception. BBC. 5 Queen Street. Edinburgh EH2 lJF (please enclose s.a.e.). 2.30pm. Free. Soprano Irene Drummond in an aftemoon’s recital of Schubert. Schumann. Robert Franz. Francis George Scott and John Maxwell Geddes. Iain Burnside is the accompanist. I Friends of Scottish Opera Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 686 2019. 3pm. £2.50. Dressing an Opera. an illustrated talk by Scottish Opera wardrobe master. John Liddell. _ I Edinburgh Concert Band Queen‘s Hall. I Clerk Street. 686 2019. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Special ECB guests tonight are Caledonia ! Brass and cellists Kevin McCrae and Neil ; Johnstone of the SCO. Proceeds to Marie I Curie Cancer Care.
.1 MONDAY 11 1 Edinburgh 1 I Hebrides Ensemble Queen's Hall. Clerk
I Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7.50(£3). ; See Sun 10. Glasgow.
TUESDAY 12
i Glasgow
ii I lunchtime Recital Hutchesons‘ Hall. 2 John Street. Tickets at door. 1.15pm—2pm. £1.60. Pianist Peter
: Sievewright with Prelude and Fugue 0p
2 35 No 2 by Mendelssohn and Variations
and Fugue on a Theme of Handel by
‘ Brahms.
I I BBC 880 City Hall. Candleriggs. 227
g 5511. 7.30pm. £6.50/£8.50 (£3.50/£5/£7). New premiere series opens with Scottish premieres ofJohn Tavener’s The Protecting Veil. with cellist Alexander Baillie as soloist. and Verses for
= Ensembles by Ham'son Birtwhistle. John Wallace is soloist in James MacMilIan’s Epiclesis — a concerto for trumpet. which was premiered at this year‘s Edinburgh
Festival. Richard Bemas and MacMilIan
conduct
. fl Edinburgh
I Organ Recital Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk. Candlemaker Row. i Tickets at door. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). ' Scottish and Norwegian music for organ : played by John Walker of Sunnfjord. Norway. From this country there is Robin Orr. John Purser and Kenneth Leighton while from Norway there is Grieg. Ludwig Nielsen and Egil Hovland.
WEDNESDAY 13
Edinburgh
I ECAT Contemporary Music Theatre Workshop. Hamilton Place. Further details: 539 8877 (ECAT). 2pm—5pni.
Extra dates: Thurs 14. Fri 15. Free. First
visit to Scotland of RoIfGehlhaar's Sound
2 Space installation — an ‘interactive
computer-controlled music environment‘
- which is open to the public.
THURSDAY 14
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Piano duo Alexandra Andrievsky and Peter Evans in One Piano, Four Hands. a programme of Schubert. Satie. Debussy and
3 Rachmaninov.
I Katya Kabanova Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 16. Tue 26. Thurs 28 October. Glasgow; Fri 12 November. Edinburgh. £5—£40. Jaiiacek‘s powerful opera is presented in a new production for Scottish Opera directed by Mark Brickman and conducted by Richard Armstrong with designs set in late Tsarist Russia by Richard Aylwin. Soprano Helen Field sings Katya.
Edinburgh
I ECAT Contemporary Music Theatre Workshop. Hamilton Place. Further
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l James MacMilIan ‘ Epiclesis — a concerto for trumpet
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! Tavener
i The Protecting Veil (Scottish Premiere) Birtwisl'ie
Verses for Ensembles (Scottish Premiere)
Alexander Baillie, cello i John Wallace, trumpet Richard Bernas / James MacMilIan, conductors
Tuesday, iZih October, 1993 at 7.30pm City Hall, Glasgow
£8.50 - £6.50 (and concessions) Ticket Centre, Candleriggs. Glasgow (31 INQ Tel: 041-227 55”
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