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and Hugh Wood’s Cello Concerto. Tim Hugh is the solo cellist.
SUNDAY 28
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). The RSAMD Junior Department Orchestra present a concert on their home ground tonight. James Durrant conducts them through works by Suppe. Ravel. Kodaly and Massenet. Robin Michael is the soloist in Prokofiev‘s Concerto for Violoncello.
Edinburgh
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. 6pm. Free. The Borders Region Youth Wind Orchestra. conducted by Kevin Price. present a programme including works by Gershwin. Holst. Richard Strauss. Arnold and Gordon Jacob.
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MONDAY 29
Glasgow
I Opera Gala Cottier Theatre. Hyndland Street. 357 3868. 7.30pm. £6. Opera on a Shoestring presents its second production with a repertoire spanning C osi jan tutte. The Barber ofSevi/le. The Marriage of Figaro and Carmen.
TUESDAY 30
Glasgow
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). Richard Dickins conducts the Enfield Young Symphony Orchestra in a programme including works by Wagner. Copland and Brahms. Nicola Eimer is the
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WEDNESDAY 31
Glasgow
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. l00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). The Central Region Youth Orchestra. conducted by Richard
Galloway. perform pieces by Beethoven.
Mozart. Greig. Tchaikovsky and Liadov. James Buchanan is the soloist in Haydn's Trumpet Concerto.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Andrew's and St George‘s Church. George Street.
12.30pm. Free with collection at end. John Kitchen. organist for Edinburgh University and Old St Paul‘s Church gives a recital on the Wells-Kennedy organ.
Glasgow
I Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). Hughina Holland conducts the Strathclyde Schools Wind Band in a programme of works by Bedford. Holst. Creston. Gregson. Boysen. Maslanke and Bernstein.
I Caledonia Brass Merchants' House. 7 West George Street. 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Christopher Bradley and Alan Friel on the trumpets. along with Nicholas Stones on the horn. Alan Fernie on the trombone and David Dowall on the tuba present an eclectic programme ranging from Cole Porter to Rimsky Korsakov.
FRIDAY 2
Glasgow
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). The Fife Youth Orchestra. conducted by Richard Evans. performs MacCunn's Land oft/1e Mountain and the Flood. Thomas Wilson‘s St K entigern Suite. lan Whyte's Scottish Dances and Schubert's Svrnphonv No 9.
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. |()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). The Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra. winners of the Radio 2 Big Band Competition Junior Section 94 and Daily Telegraph prize-winners. perform. among others. works by Woody Herman including The Four Brothers. The ii’oodt‘ltopper'x Ball and John Brown '3' Other Body. Richard Michael conducts.
SATURDAY 3
Glasgow
I Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. l00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3 OAPs; children. students. unemployed. disabled people free). The closing concert of the Festival presents the Strathclyde Schools Symphony Orchestra and a programme of work by Dvorak. Copland and Shostakovich. Barbara Suckling is the violin soloist in Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending. Christopher Bell conducts.
Edinburgh
I Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra St George‘s West Church. Shandwick Place. 7pm. £4 (£3). Wallace Galbraith conducts the orchestra. Special guest spot goes to baritone Peter Morrison who will be accompanied by Peggy O‘Keefe. All proceeds go towards the work of the ,church.
SUNDAY 4
Glasgow
I Peter Nero Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 551 l. 7.30pm. £10.50—£21. The Glasgow International Gala Season continues with one of the top Pops pianist's return to Glasgow. The City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra accompanies Nero.
Edinburgh
I ileil Butterworth Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £6 (£3). Neil Butterworth conducts the North York Philharmonic Orchestra for his 60th Birthday Concert. As well as works by Mozart. Bernstein and Copland. there will be performances of Griegovsky‘s Concerto. Krumpelhorn's Svmpllutli' No 27 and Butterworth’s Horn Concerto No l. Alexa Butterworth is the solo violinist and Rachel Bunyan is the solo horn player. The concert is in aid of the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra.
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles' Cathedral. 6pm. Free. Herrick Bunney gives a recital on the Reiger organ including Buxtehude‘s Prelude and Fugue and Franck‘s Final.
TUESDAY 6
Glasgow
I Scottish Opera Go Around Tron Theatre. Trongate. 552 4267. 7.30pm. £7 (£6). The small scale touring wing of the Scottish Opera perform their production ofOffenbach’s The (Irand Duchess of Gem/stein. The title role is sung by Carol Rowlands. Mark Tinkler directs.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. 225 6293. 8pm. £5. Mark Shepherd. assistant organist at l.ichfield Cathedral gives a recital as the guest of the St Mary's Cathedral Music Society.
WEDNESDAY 7
Glasgow
I RSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. As part of the Glasgow Intemational Gala Season. Carl Davies conducts the orchestra through a full score for the I925 silent movie classic Ben Hur. Mind you don‘t spill your popcorn during the chariot race.
Edinburgh
I British Youth Opera Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 5296000. 7.30pm. £4.50—£l7.50 (£3.50-—£l5.50). Mark Shanahan conducts the BY() in Tchaikovsky‘s liugene ()negin. Complicated love lines and pent-up passions are matched by stirring music in this Scottish debut.
THURSDAY 8
Glasgow
I Brenda Cochrane Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227
551 1. 7.30pm. £8—£10. Along with the City ofGlasgow Philharmonic Orchestra. Cochrane will perform a selection of international hits. lain Sutherland conducts.
Edinburgh
I British Youth Opera Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £4.50—£l7.50 (£3.50—£l5.50). The BYO bring Rossini's The Thieving Magpie to life in this witty production. Timothy Dean conducts.
84 The List 26 August—8 September 1994