MUSIC CLASSICAL
I Glasgow lntematlonal Gala Season Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £5—£15. Peter Nero of the Philadelphia Pops, on his first visit to Glasgow, conducts the City of Glasgow Philharmonic.
Edinburgh
I Lamp 0t Lothlan St Mary’s Church, Haddington. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 8pm. £6.50—£15 (£2.50—£15). Mezzo soprano Marilyn Home in a Grand Gala Concert of music by Vivaldi, Rossini, Handel and Schubert.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/£1). John Maxwell Geddcs conducts Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra in his own Three orchestral pieces, Malcolm Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances and Symphony No 5 by Tchaikovsky.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1/free). A variety of music for wind orchestra from Central Region Youth Symphony Wind Band, including David Bedford’s Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves, wine bottles and all.
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5
SUNDAY 30
MONDAY 31
TUESDAY 1
(£3/£l ). More talented young musicians from Central Region, this time the orchestra, which plays a not too heavy programme of Schubert, Mozart, Grieg, Britten, Finzi and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.
WEDNESDAY 2 Glasgow
I lasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/£1). Hughina Holland conducts Strathclydc Schools Wind Band in works by Reed, Woolfenden, David Bedford, Milhaud and Arnold along with the Gregson Tuba Concerto, unusually the featured solo instrument of this year’s festival.
Edinburgh
I illgel Kennedy Edinburgh Castle. . Tickets: 557 2590 (Playhouse Box Office). ; Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Bartok, Kreisler and Hendrix.
THURSDAY 3 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Piano recital by Kenneth Hamilton who plays Grieg, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/£1). Jazz and brass bands from Lothian Region directed by Scott Stroman and Nigel Boddice respectively. Soloist is Angela Whelan, the award winning cornet player, in The Flying Scot among other items. Popular works such as Ravel’s
Bolero, the Radetsky March , Star Wars andth William Tell overture make upthe rest of the brass programme.
FRIDAY 4 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1/free). A light and varied programme of music for wind band performed by Wirral Schools Concert Band.
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/£l ). Fife Youth Orchestra and Fife Youth Choir in Debussy‘s Three Nocturnes. On their own, the orchestra plays Beethoven's Symphony No 6, Dvorak’s Carnival and Five Klee Pictures by Peter Maxwell Davies.
SATURDAY 5 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival oi British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/£1). Another three weeks of peformances by top British youth orchestras nears its end with Strathclydc Schools Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Bell, and the Closing Concert of this year’s festival. They play Britten‘s Young Person ’3 Guide to the Orchestra, Walton‘s Portsmouth Point and Black Sun by Anne Boyd.
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I St Giles’ at SIX St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. 6pm. Free. George McPhee,
this month’s recital on St Giles' new organ.
UESDAY 8 Glasgow
I Evelyn Glennie and Friends Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). Extra dates: Wednesday 9, Thursday 10. £7.50/£9 (series and other discounts available). Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the BBC $80 with a variety of guests including Willard White, Lesley Garrett and Joanna MacGregor over the course of three evenings. For future broadcast on BBC TV.
WEDNESDAY 9 Glasgow
I Evelyn Glennie and Friends Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). Extra date: Thursday 10. £7.50/£9 (series and other discounts available). See Tue 8.
THURSDAY 10 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants‘ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). More Beethoven piano sonatas from Murray McLachlan, now on his seventh recital in the series. Today you can hear 0p10 N02, 0p 27 No I and 0p 27No 2, Moonlight.
I Evelyn Glennie and Friends Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). £7.50/£9 (series and other discounts available). See Tue 8.
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