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E D I N B U R G H Bill Wyman, Van Morrison and Jools Holland with Melanie C are the headline acts at this year’s Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, whose programme has just been announced. Among the dozens of other acts on the bill are New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band, Canadian jazz / hip hop trio Badbadnotgood and gypsy guitarist Fapy Lafertin. More details at edinburghjazzfestival.com
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in A grisly tale of murder and exhumation and a story of infanticide and redemption are among the works being performed Scottish Opera’s 2014–15 season, just announced. Leading Scottish composer James MacMillan conducts his own Inés de Castro, which sees a corpse crowned queen, and Annilese Miskimmon directs Janácek’s Jenufa. Also on the bill are Rossini’s glittering La Cenerentola, Gluck’s powerful Orfeo ed Euridice and Verdi’s grand Il trovatore, plus operas for children and touring opera highlights.
K I W I F O C U S AT F R I N G E 2 0 1 4 More than 200 New Zealand artists and performers will be visiting the Fringe in a major strand, NZ at Edinburgh 2014. Performances include kapa haka groups exploring Maori identity, a site-specii c immersive zombie experience, a Pacii c musical and a play about being young, Samoan and gay. More details at nzatedinburgh.org
A new music and performance space has just opened in Glencarse, east of Perth. Inchyra Arts Club is a converted 19th-century cattle the steading in grounds of the Inchyra Estate and provides an intimate setting for gigs from Glasgow indie band Kassidy, US singer-songwriters the New American Troubadours and gypsy ensemble Jubovski during its i rst few weeks. For more info, see inchyraartsclub.co.uk
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Award-winning Scottish theatre company Grid Iron is collaborating with the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Letters Home, a series of letters commissioned from four leading international writers and transformed into a promenade theatre performance by director Zinnie Harris. Performances will take place in the buildings in and around Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, from 9 to 25 Aug.
G SA F I R E U P DAT E After the dreadful news of the i re at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building, it’s heartening to hear that the School’s Architecture and Design, and MFA degree shows will be going ahead as planned. This year’s Fine Art graduates, many of whom lost work in the i re, will instead be holding a special show at the McLellan Galleries made up of over 100 large scale digital prints, Sat 14–Sat 28 Jun.
JEANETTE LENNARTSSON
It is with great sadness that we note the death after a long illness of Jeanette Lennartsson who was the designer of The List from 1994–1997. Jeanette started work at The List
when she and her husband, Marc Lambert (now director of the Scottish Book Trust) moved to Edinburgh after living in Italy for some years. She had trained earlier in graphic design in London having left her native Sweden to work in Australia. Graphic design and the skilful mastery of typography require a sophisticated understanding of language and it was part of Jeanette’s many talents that she spoke and wrote English to a higher standard than many locals.
She approached the challenge of
designing each issue with a delightful combination of wit, imagination, intelligence and principle. Always equally happy to come up with ideas of her own or to develop suggestions from the editor, she realised that successful magazine design is a collaborative effort involving working together with others and having a clear grasp of how to engage with the readers. Working with Jeanette was a joy for all who were at The List in the 1990s. Her presence, energy and laughter sent a positive can-do attitude throughout the ofi ce no matter how pressurised things might be with tight deadlines or limited resources.
Jeanette went on from The List to join the staff at Edinburgh College of Art where many hundreds of students were able to develop their skills and learn about design thanks to her dedication and talent.
Jeanette will be greatly missed by all who were lucky enough to know and work with her and we send our deepest sympathy to her husband, Marc and their two daughters, Molly and Tilda. (Robin Hodge)
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