Fridays
I North Sea Gas Balrnoral Hotel. Princes Street. 9pm. Free.
I Graeme E. Pearson Homes Bar. Constitution Street. Leith. 9.15pm. Free. I Alan Hunter and Friends Waterloo Buffet. Waterloo Place. 9pm. Free.
I Billy Mitchell Ensign Ewart. Lawnrnarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.
I live Bands Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm.-midnight. Free.
Saturdays
I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.
I Graeme E. Pearson Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Scotsman Cockburn Street. 2—5pm. Cruiken; 9pm. Live Band. Free.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal session.
Sundays
I Sandy Brechin and Friends Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9—1 lptn. Free. Fine accordionist in an open session.
I Jim Knight and Friends Wine Glass. Newington Road. 9pm. Free.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon frotn 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I live Irish Music Finnegan‘s Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
Mondays
I legends 71 Cowgate. 225 8382. Midnight—3am. Free. Late-night folk session/jam with members of various
bands.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Bluegrass night. I Rubbish Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I live Irish Music Finnegan’s Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
Tuesdays
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental. mainly lrish.
I Patsy Mack Bannerman’s Bar. Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free.
I Graeme E. Pearson Covenanter. High Street. 9.30pm. Free.
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic session most nights.
I live Irish Music Finnegan's Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
Wednesdays
I The Shore Bar The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Road. 9pm. Session. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal session with Orkney's Wrigley Sisters on fiddle and guitar.
I live Irish Music Finnegan‘s Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
CLASSICAL & OPERA mama-
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical & Opera listings compiled by Jonathan Trew.
FRIDAY 27
Glasgow
I Iolanthe Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. Scottish Opera get their teeth into Gilbert and Sullivan's satire of Victorian Britain's legal and parliamentary systems. Elizabeth Harley is the Queen of the Fairies; Elizabeth McCormack is Iolanthe;
i the role of Phyllis is sung by Ann
Archibald; that of Earl Tolloller by Harry
; Nicoll and Eric Roberts takes on the role
of Earl Mountararat. Stephen Clarke is the conductor and Keith Warner the director. I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall. Cahdieriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50—£13. Joseph Swensen conducts the SCO in Takemitsu's How Slow The Wind and Beethoven‘s Symphony No 3. Isabelle van Keulen is the soloist in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in I)
minor.
I Master Class Stevenson Hall. RSAM D. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 11am. Free.
Rehearsal by members of the SCO of
student composer. Edward Rushton's work.
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lprn.
; £2.50 (£1.50). The Scottish Chamber ' Orchestra String Quartet composed of
James Clark and Ruth Crouch on violin;
‘ Catherine Marwood and Simon Rawson
on viola and Ursula Smith on cello perform student composer. Edward Rushton‘s New Work and Dvorak's String Quintet in Eflat 0p 97.
Edinburgh
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£19. Markus Stenz conducts the RSNO in Strauss's 'lill Eulenspiegel. MacMillan's The Beserking and Brahms‘s Symphony No 2. Peter Donohoe is the solo piano.
I The Gondoliers Church Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. 447 7597. 7.30pm. £7 (£4) from Box Office or Alice Wilkinson. 228 2089. The Edinburgh University Savoy Group stage a production of the popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
I Philip Scriven McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Scriven performs an organ recital of Widor’s Variations (Symphony No 5) and Scherzo (Svmphonv No 2) as well as Franck's Grande Piece Svmplrmrique.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I The Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. Scottish Opera tackle Mozart‘s masterpiece. David Leveaux directs this new production having made his debut with'l'lie 'Iitrn oft/re Screw. Stephen Gadd plays Count Altnaviva. Lisa Milne plays Susanna and Paul Whelan is the eponymous hero. Sung in English.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £6—£19. See Fri 27.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £3.50—£15. See Fri 27.
I The Gondoliers Church Hill Theatre. Morningside Road. 447 7597. 7.30pm and mat 2.30pm. £7 (£4) from Box Office or Alice Wilkinson. 228 2089. See Fri 27.
Glasgow
I The Musical Seminar RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £7 (£3.50). Paul Stebbings is the director of Gheorghe Costinescu‘s musical theatre in which five musicians run the range of musical styles and emotional traumas. Presented by Paragon.
I Promenade Organ Concerts Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 221 9600. 2.30pm. Free. Philip Scriven gives a recital.
Edinburgh
I I Into The light Studio One. BBC
Broadcasting House. Queen Street. 2.30pm. Free on the door. in advance from reception or by post from Margaret Beaton. BBC Scotland. Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow. G12 8DG. Jean Hutchison and Jack Keaney take a piano each to play Debussy's [in Blane et Noir and Robert C rawford‘s Variations“.
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles' Cathedral. 225 5147. 6pm. Free. The Choir of Moray House College give a performance.
MONDAY 30
Glasgow
I The Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Sat 28.
TUESDAY 31 Edinburgh
I Flamenco Fire Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £5—£19.50 (£4—£ 17.50). Paco Pena returns to Edinburgh after last year’s
Spear of destiny: Iolanthe. Fri 27 and Fri 3
offering Mira Flament'a was warmly received. This time round Pena has laid more emphasis on the dance aspects of flamenco while obviously retaining the music.
I Bernard Gregor-Smith and Yolande Wrigley Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. The two musicians on cello and piano respectively perform Leighton's (7onflit'txjor Piano Solo and lz'legie. Debussy‘s Sonata and Beethoven's Seven Variations.
WEDNESDAY 1 Edinburgh
I Flamenco Fire Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm and mat 1.30pm.. £5—£19.50 (£4-£l7.50). mat £5—£12.50 (Ll-£10.50). See Tue 31.
I Afternoon Tea Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 3pm. £4.50 including afternoon tea. Soprano. Jeanette Wilson isjoined by pianist Peter Shand for a programme of works by Grieg. Schubert. Strauss. Poulenc and Britten.
Glasgow
I The Marriage of Figaro Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.5()—£44. See Sat 28.
I lunchtime Concert Merchant‘s House. 7 West George Street. 639 3176. 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3 ). Anne Lorne Gillies. soprano and Rhona MacKay on harp present a programme entitled ‘Songs of the ‘45' including those of Burns Hogg and Lady Nairne.
I Margaret Marshall and Kenneth Elliott Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 339 8855 ext 4092. 1.15pm. Free. The soprano and the pianist perform a programme including Berg's Seven [far/v Songs and songs by Richard Strauss.
I Choral Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50—£4.50). The Academy Chamber Choir. the Academy Orchestra: soprano. Adeline Ramage; contralto. Arlene Rolph; tenor. Douglas Telfer and bass. Richard Burkhard perform Mendelssohn‘s Elijah.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.45pm. £3.50—£l5. Michael Stern conducts the SCO in Mozart’s Symphony N025. Shostakovich's Chamber Svmphonv ()pllO and Kodaly's I)anee.r_/'rom
l l
(ialanta. Nikolai Demidenko is the pianist l
in Schumann‘s Piano Concerto in xi minor.
I Flamenco Fire Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £5—£l9.50 (£4—£17.50). See Tue 31.
I The Musical Seminar St Bride's Centre. Orwell Terrace. 346 1405. 7.45pm. £5 (£3). See Sun 29.
Glasgow
I Iolanthe Theatre Royal. 282 Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.50—£44. See Fri 27.
I Kilmardinny Music Circle Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. 943 0312. 7.45pm. Leland Chen and John Lenehan play Kreisler. Beethoven. Heifrtz. Gershwin. Bach anti Brahms.
I Piano Oepartrnent Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). The Piano Department presents a programme of works from the solo repertoire given by students on the Academy‘s new MMus course.
SD The List 27 Jan-9 Feb 1995