MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL

lISTINGS

I Music is listed as diary: by day, then by city, than by event.

CLASSICAL

FRIDAY 30 Glasgow

I Rostov Chamber Choir Princes Square. 2.30pm. fixtra dates: Saturday I.Monday 3. Sunday 4. Free. Varied selection including works by RUssian composers. folk music of Armenia and Georgia and western music from Bach to the Beatlesas part of a short festival celebrating Glasgow‘s twinning links with Rostov-on-Don in the Soviet Union.

I SNO Proms Kelvin I la“. Blantyre Street. Tickets: 227 55] I (Ticket Centre). 7.30pm. £3-£|0.45. British Night takesin lilgar's ( 'or'kaigne and Enigma Variations with Walton‘s Bels/ia::ar's Feast featuring Jonathan Summers and the SN( ) Chorus. ()wain Arwel Hughes is conductor.

I The Song Machine Kilmardinny Arts Centre. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. Bearsden. 943 03 l 2. 7.30pm. We'll Meet Again ~ songs ofthe Second World War.

SATURDAY 1 Glasgow

I SNO Proms Kelvin Hall. Blantyre Street. Tickets: 227 SSI 1 (Ticket Centre). 7.30pm. £34 I045. 'l’raditional Last Night of the Proms with Sir Alexander Gibson conducting all the usual favourites plus Kabalevsky's ( 'olas' lireugnon.

I IoIst‘s Perfect Fool and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. And that's it all over for another year.

I Rostov Chamber Choir i Ienry wood Hall. Tickets: 227 SSI I. 7.30pm. Free. See Friday 30 for full description.

Edinburgh

I St George's School Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. Free. 'I‘hree school orchestras and soloists perform music by Schumann. Haydn. Beethoven and Nicolai.

SUNDAY 2 Edinburgh

3 I SCO Ross Theatre. Princes Street Gardens. Free. 2.30pm. Tales from the Vienna Woods in the form ofa popular afternoon programme of music by the Strauss family directed from the violin by John Doig.

I SI Giles' at Six St Giles‘ Cathedral. High Street. Free at door. 6pm. An hour oflighl and popular classics from the I Iovik and Slabekk Schools' String Orchestra of Norway.

MONDAY 3 Glasgow

I Rostov Chamber Choir RSAMD. I00 Renfrew Street. Tickets: 227 551 I. 7.30pm. Free. See Friday 30for full description.

Edinburgh

I Recital Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. Donald Maxwell and Angela Livingstone.

Glasgow

I Rostov Chamber Choir Burrell Collection. Pollok Country Park. 1.30pm. Free. See Friday 30 for full description.

Edinburgh

I North Jutland Children’s Choir Ross

Theatre. Princes Street Gardens. lpm. Free. Part of Edinburgh District Council‘s summer programme at the Ross.

WEDNESDAY 5 Edinburgh

I Organ Recital St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Admission programmes at door. 8pm. £2. First of St Mary‘s regular Wednesday summer series brings Hugh Davies of St Asaph‘s Cathedral in North Wales as guest organist in a programme of works by Bach. Wesley. Mozart. Saint-Saens. Franck. Vierne and Duruffle.

THURSDAY 6 Edinburgh

I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George. George Street. Free at door. I2.30pm— I pm. Organ recital by Leon ('oates of St A and St G's.

I Slagelse Guards Brass Band Ross 'I'heatre. Princes Street Gardens. lpm. Free.

I The Queen‘s Hall 10th Birthday Concert Queen's I fall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50—£l0. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies comes to conduct the SCO in this special performance celebrating it) years exactly since the opening of the Queen‘s Hall. The programme is his own ()rkney Wedding Wit/t Sunrise. Haydn's Mercury Symphony and Mozart's Symphony No 40.

WEDNESDAY 12 Edinburgh

I Organ Recital St Mary‘s Episcopal Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Admission

THE FRENCH COLLECTION

Obviously getting into the European spirit, Scottish choir Cappella Nova return from their current trip to Niirnberg just in time for their French Collection, a series of six concerts in Glasgow to celebrate, yes, what else, the bicentenary of the French Revolution. Opening on Thursday 13 July— the eve of the Revolution —the concerts are not solely the province of Cappella Nova and, indeed, the opening performance is given over to Sallord College Wind Band, whose programme includes Francois Gossec's scoring of La Marseillaise. The final concert too is by a visitor, the highly acclaimed organist Jennifer Bate (see photo) who gives the first performance in Scotland of Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement. Alter giving the first British performance in Messiaen’s presence in 1986, the composer was so impressed he invited her to record the work and Bate has since been in demand touring it internationally. Cappella Nova themselves give three concerts, with works mainly by Durullé, Poulenc and Fauré, each programme also including more French organ music. ’lt’s a fitting 1989 tribute from Glasgow to France“, says director Alan Tavener, 'and I'm sure it will also help everyone get in the right mood for 1990- even if it is a little early.’ (Carol Main)

The French Collection, Thurs 13-Sat 22. Winter Gardens and Glasgow Cathedral. See listings this issue and next for details or telephone 041 334 4836.

programmes at door. 8pm. £2. Ian Ogg. organ scholar at St Mary‘s. givestonight‘s recital.

THURSDAY 13

Glasgow

I The French Collection Winter Gardens. People‘s Palace. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre). 8pm. £3 (£2.50). Cappella Nova‘s series of 6 concerts of French music opens with Salford College Wind Band. on the eve of the 200th anniversary ofthe French Revolution. playing Gossec‘s arrangement of La Marsellaise. music by Berlioz. Roussel and Milhaud.

Edinburgh

I Lunch and Listen Church of St Andrew and St George . George Street. Free at door. 12.30pm—lpm. llalfan hourof music for organ performed by Stuart Hope of Edinburgh University.

FOLK

FRIDAY 30

Glasgow

I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Henry Wood Ilall. 7.30pm. Free. Celebrating Glasgow ‘s twinning with L'SSR's Roslov.

I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantrec Inn. By L'ddingston Cross. lfddingston. 8.30pm. {I .50. Singers” Night.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street . oll' Clyde Street. 248 3I-14. ltlpm. £3. Busy.

Edinburgh

I Caiun Blue Royal Archer. I Iligh Street. 5566388. 8.30pm.

SATURDAY 1 Glasgow

I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Beer Garden. George Square. l2.30pm. Free.CelebratingGlasgow‘stwinning with USSR's‘ Roslov.

I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Princes Square. 3pm. Free. See above.

I Ceolbeg Sma' Shots Festival.Town Hall. Paisley. 8pm lidinburgh~based Scottish folk band. Davey Steele. Andy 'I‘horburn. Katy l larrigan. (iary West and Pete Boond. Songs. keyboards. harp. pipes and strings.

I The session Band Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City . 552 5924. Afternoon. Mainly Irish.

I Scolia Folk Nighl Scotia Bar. Slockwell Street. 552 8681.8.30pm. Live music.

I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3l-l-l. 10pm. [3. Dance band. (io early. Very popular.

Edinburgh

I Musicians Of The Nile Ross'l‘healrc. Princes Street Gardens. lpm. Free. Nine musicians from l'pper I‘gy pl . traditional songs and instruments.

I Caiun Blue Royal Archer. I Iligh Street. 5566388. 8.31 lpm.

I Kevin Tate Candlemakcrs Arms. Grassmarkel. livening.

SUNDAY 2

Glasgow

I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Kelvin IIaII. lpm. I‘l‘ee. Celebrating Glasgow's twinning with liSSR's Roslov. I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Princes Square. 3pm. Free. See above.

I Scotia Folk Night Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868i . 8.30pm. Live music.

I Paisley Folk Club Brabloch I Iotcl. Renfrew Road. Junction 27. M8. 8.30pm.

OPERA SPONSORSHIP

INNOVATIVE AND EXCITING CHAMBER OPERA COMPANY SEEKS A SPONSOR FOR ITS UNIQUE PRESENTATION AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL.

For more information contact Russell Plows 4 Austin House, St Mark’s Hill, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 4LU, on 01 390 7635 or Robbie Jackson on 01 7901657 (9.30am—5pm)0r01 582 9311 (after 6.30pm)

THE FRENCH COLLECTION

13 22 July 1989 Glasgow Cathedral Celebrating the Bicentenary 0f the French Revolution with: Cappella Nova, jennifer Bate, Salford College Wind Band, Wayne Marshall, Worcester Cathedral Choir

Bookings and further information Tel: 041 334 4836

Presented by Cappella Nova with funds from Glasgow District Council’s Festivals Budget and the French Cultural Delegation

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