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CLYDE THEATRE Boquhanran Road. Clydebank (381 38E
Mon 27 Nov-Sat 6 Jan Tickets 122.5010 £4.50 from Clyde Theatre Box Office Tel 041 951 1200 and Ticket Centre Tel 041 227 5511
i I THEATRE COMPANY
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presents 1989 Christmas Panto
ALI MacBABA AND THE TOMB OF DOOM by David Swan Directed by Charles Nowosielski
6th Dec ’89 until 6 Jan ’90 No performances Sundays, Christmas and New Year's Day Matinées: December 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 27, 30 and January 3rd and 6th at 2.30pm Evenings at 7.30pm
Tickets £4.251ull price £3.50 concessions 1 Matinées £3 Monday evenings (Dec 11 & 18) at special price of £3.50
ACCESS and VISA accepted
kBox Oittce (031) 665 2240)
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 22
Glasgow
I Glasgow Youth Choir City 1 lall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £2”£2.50. Christmas concert under conductor Agner F. Hocy.
I BBC 380 Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6/£7 (£3—£4.50). Final performance at the incredibly busy RSAMD this year secs Jerzy Maksymuik conduct Lyell Cresswcll’s Cello Concerto (Roman Jablonski is soloist). Lemminkainen's Rerur by Sibelius and. to reflect the season. Prokofiev's Snow Maiden Suite.
Edinburgh
I 8N0 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday23. Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). Annual Carol Concert with the SNO Youth and Junior Choruses. Philip Ledger conducts.
SATURDAY 23
Glasgow
I SNO City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Friday 22. Edinburgh. forfull description.
FRIDAY 29 Glasgow
I Die Fledermaus Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 331 1234 or 332 9000.7.15pm. Extra dates: Sunday 31 . Wednesday 3. Thursday 4. Saturday 6. £3—£25.50 (various cone). Scottish Opera in Simon Callow‘s production of Strauss‘s popular Operetta. Set in contemporary Glasgow and sung in English. Generally good fun. but the jokes are a bit much at times.
Glasgow
I Die Fledermaus Theatre Royal. 1 lope Street, 331 1234 or 3329000. 7. 15pm. Extra dates: Wednesday 3. Thursday 4. Saturday 6. £3—£25.50 (various cone). See Friday 29 for full description.
NEW YEAR’S DAY
Glasgow
I Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society Glasgow Cathedral. John Knox Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 2.30pm. What better way for Glasgow 1990 to kick off than with 1-Iandel‘sMessia/t‘.’ With the Virtuosi of Scotland and conductor John R. Turner.
TUESDAY 2 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Royal Choral Union Usher Hall. Lothian Road.2281155. 12pm. £4—£8 (standby £2.50). If you‘re still needing refreshed after the New Year festivities. try ERCI,‘ in their l32nd annual performance of l landcl‘s Messiah. Christopher Bell conducts.
WEDNESDAY 3
Glasgow
I Die Fledermaus Theatre Royal. Hope Street, 331 1234 or 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Thursday 4. Saturday 6. £3—£25.50 (various cone). Sec Friday 29 for fulldcscription.
THURSDAY 4 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Mcrchants‘ Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 9430388 (Westbournc Music). 12.45pm. £2 (£1.50). Newserics — continuing every Thursday lunchtime throughout 1990—
kicks off with Peter Mountain (violin) and
Angela Dale (piano) as they start on the complete Mozart Violin Sonatas. Today it‘s K305 and K526. both in A major, and John McLeod‘s Sonata for violin. Fifty minutes in length — lunch can be bought there and taken in on a tray.
I Die Fledermeus Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 331 1234 or 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra date: Saturday 6. £3—£25.50 (various cone). See Friday 29 for full description.
I SND City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra dates: Friday 5. Edinburgh and Saturday 6. Glasgow. £3.50—£12.70 (standby £2.50). Sir Alexander Gibson conducts a Viennese Night with lots of Strauss. Schubert. Lehar and more Strauss. Marilyn Hill Smith is soprano soloist.
Edinburgh
I National Youth Orchestra at Scotland Usher Hall. Lothian Road.2281155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Friday 5. Glasgow. £3.50—£7.50 (price concession). Over 100 of Scotland‘s best young musicians give the premiere of young composer David Horne‘slighr, emerging. . . along withthe better known Berlioz's Symphonie Fantasfique and Wagner‘s Wesendonk Lieder with Linda Finnie as soloist. SNO maestro Matthias Bamert conducts.
FRIDAY 5
Glasgow
I Beethoven - Fenyo Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Tuesday 9. Edinburgh. £5 (£2.50). Gusztav Fenyo in the first of his seven programmes covering the complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas. Tonight it's Op 2 No l . Op 31 No l . Op 109 and the Waldslein (see Music Preview).
I National Youth Orchestra 01 Scotland City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3.50—£7.50 (price concession). See Thursday 4, Edinburgh for full description.
I Kltmerdlnny Music Circle Kilmardinny Arts Centre. 50 Kilmardinny Avenue. 943 0312. 7.45pm. £4 (£2). Carol Gould, piano, plays Mozart, Schumann and Chopin.
Edinburgh
I 8110 Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturdayb. Glasgow. £2.95—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Thursday 4. Glasgow for full description.
SATURDAY 6
Glasgow
I Die Fiedermaus Theatre Royal, Hope Street. 331 1234 or 332 9000.7.15pm. £3—£25.50 (various cone). See Friday 29 for full description.
I 8110 City Hall. Candleriggs. 226 551 1 . 7.30pm. £3.50—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Thursday 4 for full description.
Edinburgh
I West Side Story Usher Hall. Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.45pm. £3—£7 (standby £2). Concert version ofthc Bernstein/Sondheim Broadway classic with the SCO and a chance for all budding Tonys and Marias to join in. Audience rehearsal at 7pm.
WEDNE— Glasgow
I Scottish internationai Piano Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm—5pm and 7pm—10pm. Extra dates: Wednesday 10 (Round 1). Thursday 1 1 (Round 1 and Round 2) and Friday 12 (Round 2). Sunday 14 (Final). £4 per session/£6 Day Ticket/£20 Season. Round 1 and concert pianists front 15 European countries start to compete with 25 minute recitals of works by Bach. Chopin. Liszt, Haydn and Mozart.
Edinburgh
I Swing 90 Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Edinburgh University‘s lunchtime concert series starts 1990 in style with Swing 90 celebrating their tenth anniversary and still inspired by jazz great Django Reinhardt.
I Beethoven — Fenyo Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5 £6.50 (£4/£5.50). See Friday 5. Glasgow. forfull description.
WEDNESDAY 10
Glasgow
I Scottish International Piano Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm—5pm and 7pm—10pm. Extra dates: Thursday 11 (Round land Round 2) and Friday 12 (Round 2). Sunday 14 (Final). £4 per session/£6 Day Ticket/£20 Season. Sec Tuesday 9 for full description.
Edinburgh
I Edinbugh Quartet St Bernard's(‘hurcb. Saxe Coburg Street. Stockbridge. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office) or 332 8691 (EQ)or228 1155(17sher11allBox Office). 7.45pm. £6 (inc winc)i£4.20 (standby £2). Mozart‘s The Hunt. Bartok‘s Quartet No 2 and l laydn's ()p 77 No 1 in (i major.
THURSDAY 11
Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants i lall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 9430388 (Westbournc Music). 12.45pm. £2 (£1.50). Peter Mountain and Angela Dale continue with Mozart's Violin Sonatas. playing K302. K380 and K481. all in E flat major, with Janet Beat's Aegean Nocturne providing a contemporary contrast. Lunch available.
I Scottish international Piano Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm—5pm (Round 1)and 7pm—10pm (Round 2). Extradatcs: Friday 12 (Round 2). Sunday 14 (Final). European pianists continue to compete for this major new award. Round 2 sees 45 minute recitals of works by Beethoven. Romantic and 2llth-century composers and the specially commissioned test piece by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson. lite/tone Bonfire. See also Tuesday 9.
Edinburgh
I 5C0 L'sher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.45pm. Extra date: Friday 12. Glasgow. An American Night including I’etcr Evans as soloist in (lcrswhin's Rhapsody in Blue. Lambert's Rio (irandt’ and exce rpts from Porgy and [1m -- a programme built round the theme ofjazz and its influence on 20th-century composers
38 The List 22 December 1989 — 11 January 1990