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I RSNO Kelvlngrove Concerts Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 353 8000. 8pm. £20 (£18; standing tickets £5). Grand works in a grand venue: the RSNO present Gabrieli‘s Sonata Pian ' e Forte. Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Brahms’ Symphony No 4 conducted by David Danzmayr.
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Glasgow
I Prom Praise Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 2.30pm. £8—£l4. Capturing something of the spirit of the world famous Last Night of the Proms. Prom Praise is a blend of sacred and concert music presented by the All Souls Orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Noel Tredinnick.
I East Dunbartonshire Secondary Schools’ Orchestra RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). Music by Elgar, Delius. Borodin. Dvorak. John Williams and John Ottman conducted by George Kelly. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
I RSIIO Kelvingrove Concerts Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 353 8000. 8pm. £20 (£18; standing tickets £5). See Fri 22.
Glasgow
I West Lothian Schools’ Symphony Orchestra RSAMD. l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £5 (free-£2.50). Popular classics from this fairly new orchestra (formed three years ago) under the direction of Christopher Gray. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
FREE Kelvlngrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. 3pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists.
I Glasgow Schools’ String Ensemble RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free-£4). Alice Smith. Mary Doughcny. Claire Philip. Tim Cais and Margaret Mary McGore form an ensemble to make the most of concertos by Handel and Mozart. and music by Sibelius and Moskowski. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
Glasgow
I East Ounbartonshire Primary Schools’ Orchestra RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £5 (free—£2.50). George Kelly conducts a selection of pop ballads and up tempo numbers. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
I Glasgow Youth Choir RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). A selection of sacred. secular. popular and classical music. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
Glasgow
I West of Scotland Schools’ Concert Band RSAMD. l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). A programme of Bernstein‘s Slava. Debussy‘s En Bateau. Frank Ticheli’s Blue Shades and Gareth Wodd‘s Percussion Concerto. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
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I West of Scotland Schools’ Symphony Orchestra RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). Khachaturian‘s Spartacus Ballet Suite No 2. Weber‘s Bassoon Concerto. Brahms' Hungarian Dances I
Classical Music
& 3 and Prokofiev‘s Symphony No 7 conducted by James Lowe and with Jamie Louise White. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
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Glasgow
I An Evening of Chamber Music RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5. New work by Rory Boyle as well as the music of Eddie McGuire and others. played by llautist Amy Morris. mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner and pianist Michael Heaston. Tickets available at the door.
I Perth Youth Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free-£4). Kenneth Platt‘s Restoration Dances. Mussorgsky‘s Night on Bare Mountain and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No I plus music from Pirates of the Caribbean. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
Glasgow
I Fife Youth String Orchestra 8. Fife Youth Percussion Ensemble RSAMD. l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £5 (free—£2.50). Latin-flavoured tunes. music from Grease and Aladdin and unusual string music. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
I Fife Youth Orchestra RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). Music by Schubert. Suppe and John Gourlay‘s Labyrinth (with Calum Gourlay on double bass) plus a surprise for the Trekkies. Part of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras.
I Bearsden and Milngavie Youth Orchestra RSAMD. l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £5 (free—£2.50). A fun repertoire of The Planets. Tchaikovsky‘s Ballet Music and ‘Music from Namia‘. Part of the festival of British Youth Orchestras.
I Glasgow Schools’ Symphony Orchestra RSAMD. l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free—£4). The closing concert is conducted by Gerard Doheny. led by Claire Philip and offers performances of music by Schumann. Verdi. Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Part of the festival of British Youth Orchestras.
Edinburgh
FREE Sunday Morning Music National Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 247 4422. l 1am. Wake up to the sounds of Flutes en Route. a vibrant young flute quartet from Glasgow. as part of the museum‘s regular monthly series. FREE St Giles’ at Six: Veronica Henderson and Katharine Durran St Giles‘ Cathedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 6pm. The cellist and pianist perform JS Bach's Sonata in G BWV
I ()2 7. Schumann’s Fantasiestucke Op 73 and Janacek‘s A Tale.
Motherwell
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Motherwell Concert Hall. Civic Centre. Windmillhill Street. 01698 403 I 20. 7.30pm. £12.50 (£5—£10). Conductor Aleksandar Markovic and the orchestra bring Haydn (Symphony No 96 'Miracle ’). Mozart (Clarinet Concerto) and Beethoven (Symphony No 8) to central Scotland. With solo clarinettist Maximiliano Martin also joining the Visiting party.
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Falkirk
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra FTH Cinema. Falkirk Town Hall. West Bridge Street. 01324 506850. 7.30pm. £12.50 (£5—£10). See Wed 3.
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This new touring production of the much- Ioved Jen'y Brock musical stars Joe
McCann as Tevye, dairyman and father to five headstrong daughters in Czarist Russia, who becomes torn between Jewish tradition and the actions of his family against a backdrop of the Czar’s decree that Jews must be evicted from their villages. The show features such well-kent numbers as ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ and ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker’.
I Theatre Royal, Glasgow, until Sat 23 Aug.
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I EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE liastwood Park. Rouken (ilen Road. (iiffnock. 577 4970.
Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow Thu 4 Sat 6 Sep. 7.30pm. £14 (£5 «£101. Scottish ()pera returns with a lavish new production of Franz Lehar's light opera. Set in Paris in 1912. The Merrv Widow tells the tale of llanna (ilawari. the witty widow of a filthin rich man. who is in search of a new spouse.
I KING’S THEATRE
297 Bath Street. 0870 060 6648. I11. WC. WAl
Flashdance Until Sat 23 Aug. 7.30pm; 5.30pm & 8.30pm; 2.30pm & 6.30pm.
£1 1 -£3 1. The West lind version of the hit film about Alex —< welder by day. erotic dancer by night — and her quest to get into the Shipley Dance Academy. With choreography by Arlene Phillips ( Strictly Come noticing ).
Milkshake! Live in My First Concert Thu 28 Sat 30 Aug. Thu 4pm; Fri 1 lam & 5pm: Sat 1 lam & 2pm. £9~£15.50. All your favourite characters from Channel 5‘s Milkshake take to the live stage to induct youngsters into a love of musical theatre. Evita Mon l—Sat 13 Sep. 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £l2-£32. Brand new world tour of the political musical melodrama made even more famous by Madonna. Altogether now: ‘1)on‘t cry for me. Argentiiina!‘
I ORAN MOR
731—735 Great Western Road. 357 6200. A Play, a Pie 8 a Pint: Mums and Lovers Mon l—Sat 6 Sep. 12.30pm. £10 includes pie and pint. The new season of lunchtime drama kicks off with a new work by Rab C Nesbitt creator lan Pattison. about a girls‘ night out with a twist. Repeated on Wednesday night as A
' I PAVILION-THEATRE
Dinner. A Drama and a Dram (£25. includes dinner).
I21 Rentield Street. 332 1846. Ill. WC. WA]
The Celts in Seville Until Sat 6 Sep
(not Sun). 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2pm). £15—£20 (£l2—£15). The story of a typical Celtic family as their heroes go all the way to the UliI’A Cup final in Seville. written by award-winning playwright Tony Roper.
I THEATRE ROYAL
282 Hope Street. 0870 060 6647. Ill. NGD. WC. WAI
Fiddler on the Roof Until Sat 23 Aug. 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm). £15 £28. The producers of Disney‘s Beauty and the Beast and 42nd Street bring you Jerry Bock's musical about a father of live trying to maintain his family and religious traditions while the world and civilisation around him change rapidly. It has a McGann in it. but we don‘t think it's the one who was Doctor Who. See caption. above.w The Vagina Monologues Mon 25-Sat 30 Aug. 7.30pm; 6pm & 9pm. £tbc. live linsler‘s famous. hilarious. moving and brave celebration of female sexuality is performed as part of the V- Day movement. a campaign to stop violence towards women.
Jungle Book Tue 2--Sat 6 Sep. 7pm (also Thu 8: Sat 1.30pm). £14 (£9). Birmingham Stage Company brings to life Rudyard Kipling's classic children's tale of the young man-cub Mowgli and singing animal friends.
I TRON THEATRE
63 Trongate. 552 4267. IH. WC. WA] Calamity Jane Thu 28—Sat 30 Aug. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £8 (£6).
Classic musical Western about the
cowgirl whom trouble just seems to follow.
The Manifesto Sun 31 Aug. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). As part of his new directorship at the Tron. Andy Arnold revives the long-running political cabaret evening which started at the old Traverse in the 1980s. Tam Dean Burn is your most gracious host.
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