CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
schools‘ jazz and wind bands perform. I St Giles’ at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. 6pm. Free. Collegiurn Musicurn from Harvard University give a concert of music by Byrd. Schulz and Britten. Jameson Marvin conducts.
I Venetian Music Workshop Royal Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 220 1637. 2pm. Free. Paul McCreech conducts an open rehearsal of a recently reconstructed 33-part mass by Giovanni Gabrieli. The groups involved are the Scottish Gabrieli Ensemble. Ludus lnstrumentalis and the Linton Singers. Part of the Old Town Festival.
TUESDAY 20
Glasgow
I Special Ferguson Concert Glasgow University Concert Hall. 330 4092. 1.30pm. Free. Members of the Chamber
Group of Scotland give a concert of works i 5 Edinburgh
‘ I The Praise Ringers Randbell Choir Sr Giles‘ Cathedral. 12.15pm. Free. This
by Thea Musgrave to celebrate the conferrnent of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music on the composer. The works in the programme are Musgrave‘s Piccolo Play. Impromptu No 2. Music for Horn and Piano and Wind Quintet.
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£l9. Sir William Southgate conducts the RSNO in arrangements of works by Gershwin. Cole Porter. Rodgers and Berlin.
WEDNESDAY 21
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4-£19. En Shao conducts the RSNO in Mozart's [fine K leine Nacltt/nusik.
Di vertimento in I), Symplimrv No 40 and Stephane Rancourt. John Cushing. Julian Roberts and David McClenaghan are the respective soloists for Mozart‘s Sinfonia Concertantejor Oboe. Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn.
Edinburgh
I St Mary’s Music School Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.30pm. £3 (£1). The school present their summer concert — an evening of chamber music and orchestral works. I Edinburgh Renaissance Band Signet Library. Parliament Square. 220 1637. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). A celebration of the Auld Alliance. ranging from a song about the drinking habits of the Scots in Paris dating back to the 13th century to a dance brought by the courtiers of Mary Queen of Scots to Holyrood three centuries later. all with period instruments.
THURSDAY 22
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms
Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£19. Edwin Paling directs the RSNO in a series of baroque classics — Pachelbel's Canon. Albinoni's Adagio. Handel‘s Water Music. Bach‘s Brandenburg Concertos No 5 and No 3 and Paling and Justine Watts are the solo violinists in Bach‘s Concerto in D minor for Two Violins. John Grant (flute) and John Langdon (harpischord) are the evening's other soloists.
I lunchtime Concert Merchants' House. 7 West George Street. 639 3176. 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). Amanda Morrison (soprano). Nicholas York-Jones (baritone) and Judith Keaney (pianist) perform works by Quilter. Grainger. Bernstein. Sondheim and Porter.
I Guitar Duo East Kilbride Arts Centre. 51—53 Old Coach Road. East Mains. East Kilbride. 013552 61000. 8pm. £5 (£2.50). Gary McLeod and John Hallam provide an evening of Spanish and classical mUSiC-
Cry your eyes out with La Boheme, Edinburgh. Sun 25
sixteen-strong group from Florida trse 61
; English handbells to produce peals of 5 delight. - I Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra 7.30pm.
Free. Alberto Massimo leads this string orchestra in The Arrival oft/re Queen of
Sheba and the Mirtillo Suite by Handel.
Geminiani‘s Violin (irosso with soloist Lawrence Dunn and Bach‘s Branden/nag
Concerto No .1.
Q FRIDAY 23
i Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£l9. Takuo Yuasa conducts the RSN()
' in an evening of popular classics comprising Ravel‘s Mother Goose Suite. . Chopin’s Andante Spianato and (irande 5 Polonaise. the Scherzo from Litolff's
Concerto Synzpltonique No 4 and Rimsky- Korsakov's Si‘lte/rerezade. Martin Jones is the pianist.
I Jaleo Paisley Town Hall. Abbey Close. Paisley. 889 3151 ext. 222. 7.30pm. £6 (£4.50). A five-piece flamenco group from Seville. Jaleo promise to seduce audiences with stunning guitar work and dancing. Part of the Paisley Festival.
; Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra
: Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£l9. lt’s Viennese night at the Proms
with James Loughran conducting the
orchestra in music from Reznicek. Schubert. Mozart and the Strauss family.
I Junior Academy First Orchestra
RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 3pm. £5 (£3). James Durrant directs the orchestra in John Maxwell Geddes's Dances At 'I'Irreave. Kenneth Leighton's Dance Suite N: 3 and pieces by Glinka. Bruch and Walton. Gillian McIntyre is the solo in Gregson‘s 'I'uha Concerto.
I Call That Singing! Museum of Transport. 337 3336. 2.30pm. Free. Glasgow‘s singing audience give its a taste of their tonsils in celebration of National Music Day.
I The Organist Entertains Art Gallery
and Museum. Kelvingrove. 221 9600.
2.30pm. 3.30pm. Free. Bryan Rodwell
gives a recital.
‘ Edinburgh
I Come and Sing Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). £3 for singers (£2). As part of National Music Day Christopher Bell. along with guest soloists. conducts the singers in scratch renditions of Mozart's Requiem and
Sole/mt Vespers. Rehearsals start at l lam.
I Scottish Voices Trio RSAMl). Renfrew Street. 332 5057. £6 (£4). Spm. Alice Dumas and Amanda Morrison (sopl'allos). Tracey Wilson (liter/o-sopr'ano) and Lynda Cochr'ane (piano) perform
Hindemith's l)as.1Iarien/e/n'n. Hair's The
Rainbow Serpent and a trew song cycle by Rob Adarrrs. I Call That Singing! Art (iallery and
Museurrr. Kelvingrove. 337 3336. 2.30pm.
Free. (.ilasgow's singing audience give its
a taste of their tonsils in celebration of National Music Day.
Ed inburgh
I La Bohéme Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.15pm. £9.50-£l7.50 (£7.50 £15.50), 'l‘ravelling ()pera present their linglish version of Puccini's great weepic. Peter Knapp. who cliar'rrred the Festival Theatre in January with his .’1// loll lz'i'cr Wanted 7}) Know About ()pei'a. directs.
I Nicholas Ashton Queen's Hall. Clerk
5 SATURDAY 24 :
Street. 668 2019. credit card hotline 667 7776. 3pm. £7 (£5). The pianist performs Schubert's illor'e/nentsfor a Sonata. Schumann's Humoreske. Dallapiccola's Quaderno illusicale (1i Anna/ilu'm. Stockhausen‘s Klar-ierstiu'k 1" and Stravinsky's 'li-ois ill/louveme/rts illr Petrous/lka.
I Merchiston Castle School Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 225 1900. 7pm. £3 (£1.50) from school. Philip Rossiter and David Turner conduct the school's orchestra and choir in Haydn's 'Ie beam and Nelson Mass. Patrick Gibson is the soloist in Mozart's Horn Concerto in I).
I St Giles’ at Six St Giles' Cathedral.
' MONDAY 26
6pm. Free. Musicians from Robert Gordon's College give a concert.
: Glasgow I Le Roi l’a nit RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£3). The Academy
()pera department perform Delibes‘s lively and witty opera sung in English.
; Mark Tinkler directs. Timothy Dean 7 conducts and Julian Crouch has designed
the production.
I Park Mains high School Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street.
227 5511. 7.30pm. £5. A 21st anniversary
' concert featuring the school's bands.
1 TUESDAY 27 '
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £4—£l9. Robert Ziegler conducts the RSNO in an evening of movie music. The
composer Patrick Doyle will present the music. including his own compositions for the films Much Ado About Nothing. Frankenstein. Dead Again and Henry V. I Le Roi l’a Dit RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£3). See Mon 26.
Edinburgh
I Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral St Mary's Episcopal Church. Dalkeith (inside the gates of Dalkeith Country Park). 7.30pm. The Cathedral Choir continue St Mary's 150th Anniversary Programme.
I Pymble Ladies College lnverleith Church. Inverleith Gardens. 7.30pm. Free. The women from Sydney give a choral and instrumental concert including works by Byrd. Franck. Pergolesi. Mozart. 1.ighlfoot.'l‘ai/.e. Swan. Vierdanck. Grant.
1 Brumby. Shapcott and Johan de Meij.
I True Belleek (ir'eylriars Kirk. (ireyfriar's Place. 225 1900. 8pm. £6 (£4). John Harris corrdtrets the musicians in Bernstein's .tlass. Xerynthia Shaw directs. This is a theatre piece in aid of the
: homeless with all proceeds going to
' Glasgow
Shelter Scotland.
WEDNESDAY 28
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511. 7.30pm.
£11 £19. Christopher Seaman conducts the orchestra in all evening of music from ballets. The programme includes excerpts from ballets by 'l‘chaikovsky. Delibes. Falla. Khacliatur'ian. Prokofiev. Faure and Stravinsky.
I Le Roi l’a Dit RSAMD. Renfrew Street.
332
5057.7. 5pm. £5 (£3). See Mon 26.
Edinburgh I True Belleek Greyfriars Kirk. (ir'eyfriars Place. 225 1900. 8pm. £6 (£4).
See Tue 27.
I THURSDAY 29
' Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Proms Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 227 5511.7.30pm. £4»-£l9. lt's family night at the Proms with Nicholas Cleobury conducting the orchestra in the overture to Rossini's Cinderella and Patterson‘s Little Red Riding Hood as well as music frorn Walt Disney's Snow White and Pinocchio.
I Opera Brava Paisley Town Hall. Abbey Close. 889 3151. 7.30pm. £6 (£4.50). This young quartet give an evening of operatic highlights and high jinks. Part of the Paisley Festival.
I Le Roi I’a Dit RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.15pm. £5 (£3). See Mon 26.
Edinburgh
I True Belleek Greyfriars Kirk. Greyfriars Place. 225 1900. 8pm. £6 (£4). See Tue 27.
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