MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Scots songs in harmony from Stravalg.
Edinburgh
I ilitten Folk Club Dean Tavern, Newtongrange. £2 (£1 ). 8pm. Marilyn Middleton Pollock sings blues/folk.
FRIDAY 2 , Glasgow
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree lnn, Old Mill Road, Uddingston. 9pm. £2 concerts, other nights £1.
I Cellldh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4.
Motherwell
I Humpll Famin Bellshill Cultural Centre. 8pm. £4 (£3). Cajun ccilidh rockers.
Edinburgh
I Blues Fest Assembly Rooms, George Street. 8pm—iam. £5. See Rock listings.
SATURDAY 3 Glasgow
I earer Works/Eat the Seats Tramway Theatre. 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow. 8pm. Tickets 227 551 1, £6 (£3). English and Scottish high energy rootsy folk ‘n’ roll. Barely Works‘ new album Glow is another step forward, full of danceable vocals as well as their dense instrumental mix. The Seats bring a dangerous Highland bluegrass. blues and musical anarchy.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Live Music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4.
Motherwell
I Gaberlunzie Beiishill Cultural Centre. 8pm. £4 (£3). Original Scots folk duo.
Edinburgh
I Blues Fest Assembly Rooms. George Street. 2pm—1am. £6 in advance,£7 on the door. Nine bands. See Rocklistings.
SUNDAY 4
Glasgow
I Scotia Blues Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 3.30pm. Free. The Blues Poets.
I The Attic The Studio. Shuttle Street, Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions, £2.50 everyone else. Live music.
Edinburgh
I The Disserov Sisters and TrloTraIti Assembly Rooms. George Street, 220 4349. 8pm. £6.50 (£4). Music from Bulgaria.
MONDAY 5 - Linliihgow I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Inn, West Port, Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members
£2, non-members £2.50, concessions £2. Female vocalist from Ulster Phil Campbell.
TUESDAY 6 Edinburgh
I Penlcuilt Folk Club Navaar Hotel, Penicuik. 8pm. Singaround.
Glasgow
I Chico Ramos, Andy Palaclo and Sounds incorporated Tramway, Albert Drive,227 5511. 8pm. £6 (£3.50). The Latin-American and Caribbean dance hall craze is coming to Glasgow for one night only. The very best in Punta rock.
WEDNESDAY 7 Glasgow
I Los Supremos Cottiers, Highburgh Road. 8pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Chico Ramos and Sounds lnc Assembly Rooms, George Street, 220 4349. 8pm. £6.50 (£4). Punta rock from Belize.
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs, West Register Street, 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Songs and instrumentals from two North of England musicians. Bob Fox and Benny Graham.
’ THURSDAY 8
Glasgow
I Carol Laula Band Cumbernauld Theatre, Braehead Road. Cumbernauld. Tickets 0236 732 887. 7.45pm. £5 (£2.50). Great singer and songwriter with her own topmotch band including members of Love and Money and Hue and Cry.
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2.
CLASSICAL moms-
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Cami Main.
FRIDAY 25 Glasgow
I Premiere Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£3.50/£2.5()). First concert in the series celebrating new music presented by the BBC SSO. Tonight they give the Scottish premieres of John Casken‘s Maharal Dreaming and the Symphony in One Movement by Alexander Goehr. Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Fiona Kimm as soloist comes in between. Richard Bernas conducts.
SATURDAY 26 Glasgow
I The Organist Entertains Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove. 357 3929. 2.30—3pm and 3.30—4pm. Free. Stewart Smith and Colm Carey explore the lighter side ofthe organ repertoire.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). The cathedral‘s Master of the Music, Timothy Byram-Wigficld, plays works by Bach, Martin Dalby, Robert Walker and Patrick Gowers. Sonata on the 94th Psalm by Reubke in the second half.
SUNDAY 27 Glasgow
I Organ Concert Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, 357 3929. 2.30—3pm and 3.30—4pm. Free. Alan Rodger ofSt Columba’s Parish Church, Largs.
Edinburgh
I Music at Si Mark’s St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 6pm. £5 (£3). Philomusica of Edinburgh play Vivaldi, Tartini and Bach.
TUESDAY 29
Glasgow
I ll Trovatore Theatre Royal, Hope Street,
3329000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 3, Sat
10, Thurs 22, Wed 28 Oct - Glasgow; Tue 24, Sat 28 Nov - Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. New production for Scottish Opera of Verdi’s romance from 15th century Spain. Usual sort of confusing action, so read it up before you go, but with Cardiff Singer of the World, Lisa Gasteen, singing Leonora, it should be well worth it, especially with Richard Armstrong in the pit. I International Celebrity Recital Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. Pinchas Zukerman (violin) with Marc Neikrug (piano) plays Bach, Beethoven, Neikrug and Franck.
I Dunbartonshire Concert Band Eastwood Theatre. Further details: 9462762. 7.30pm. in concert with Newlands South Church Choir.
WEDNESDAY 30
- Glasgow
I Moscow Radio Symphony Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £7.50—£15. Shostakovich Symphony No 6, Spartacus suite by Khachaturian and Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto.
Edinburgh
I The Battered Bride Churchhill Theatre, Morningside Road. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Thurs 1, Fri 2, Sat 3. £4.50 (£3.50/£2.50). Sinfonia Opera in annual production. Alison Rushworth conducts and Alistair Dinnie is producer.
I The Leda Trio Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8.15pm. £6(£4). First concert of the Leda’s winter season presents piano trios by Debussy and Ravel. Pre-concert meal plus ticket package on offer from L’Auberge Restaurant.
THURSDAY 1 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants’ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Now fortnightly instead of weekly, the Westboume Music series is still, however, surviving the recession with an impressive line up of artists and programmes. Today Murray McLachlan plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas 0p 26, 0p 79and 0p 2 N03.
I Soiree Musicale Merchants’ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Csardas, with special guest Neville Garden, presents an evening in celebration of Rossini’s bicenentary. Also popular works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Braga’s Angel Serenade. Free wine in the interval.
Ed i nburgh
I Chamber Music at Queen Street Broadcasting House, 5 Queen Street. Tickets: BBC Reception, 5 Queen Street. 1pm. Free. Serenades and lullabies from Christine Cairns and Graeme McNaught. I The Bartered Bride ChurchhillTheatre, Morningside Road. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. Extra
dates: Fri 2, Sat 3. £4.50(£3.50/£2.50). See Wed 30.
FRIDAY 2
Glasgow
I Kegelstatt Trio Kilmardinny House , 50 Kiimardinny Avenue, Bearsden, 943 0312. 7.45pm. Trios for viola, piano and clarinet by Mozart, Grovlez, Alfred Uhl, Debussy and Bruch presented by Kilmardinny Music Circle.
Edinburgh
I The Battered Bride Churchhill Theatre, Morningside Road. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 3. £4.50 (£3.50/£2.50). SeeThurs 30.
SATURDAY 3
I ll Trovatore Theatre Royal , Hope Street, 332 9000. 2.15pm. Extra dates: Sat 10, Thurs 22, Wed 28 October — Glasgow; Tues 24, Sat 28 Nov - Edinburgh. £3.50—£38.50. See Tue 29.
I ll Seraglio Motherwell Theatre, 0698 67515. 7.30pm. £5.50 (£4). Scottish Opera Go Round in latest touring production. Mozart’s Seraglio is fully staged with piano accompaniment and is described as ’a vibrant blend of romance, exoticism and comedy.’
Edinburgh
I Open Day St Mary‘s Music School, 25 Palmerston Place, 220 1664. 2.30—6pm. Free. A chance to see inside this specialist co-educational day and boarding school. A short concert starts the afternoon’s proceedings.
I The Savouma Stevenson Trio Fruitmarket Gallery, Market Street, 225 2383. 8pm. £5 (£4). Music for harp, percussion and bass from Africa, South America and Asia.
I The Battered Bride Churchhill Theatre, Morningside Road. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £4.50 (£3.50/£2.50). See Thurs 30.
SUNDAY 4 Glasgow
I Royal Scottish Orchestra Motherwell Concert Hall, 069867515. 7.30pm. £7 (£6). As part of the Motherwell Music Festival, the R80 plays a popular programme of Barber, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, conducted by John Currie.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Giles‘ Cathedral, High Street. 6pm. Free at door. Edinburgh University organist John Kitchen gives the latest in the series of recitals on St Giles’ spectacular new organ.
TUESDAY 6
Glasgow
I Call That Singing! Motherwell Concert Hall, 0698 67515. 7.30pm. £3 (£2). All aboard for a sentimental journey of laughter, sunshine and song, stopping off in Manhattan, the Highlands, Granada and all the way back to Motherwell. Don’t worry if you think you can’t sing. Call That Singing! says you can.
I Young Musicians ol the Year Bellshill Cultural Centre, Motherwell. Tickets: at Cultural Centre, Motherwell. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £2 (£1). Not quite the BBC competition, but twelve young musicians from Motherwell District will no doubt feel just as nervous as they compete for this special prize of the 1992 Motherwell Music Festival.
Edinburgh
I Ronan O'Hara Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7.50. One of Britain’s leading young pianists in a programme of Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy. Proceeds to Epilepsy Society of Scotland.
I WEDNESDAY 7
I Singer ol the Year Bellshill Cultural Centre, Motherwell. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £2 (£1). Singers from Motherwell District, aged 12—59, compete in this year’s Motherwell Festival’s singers’ event.
Edinburgh
I Lothlan Music Ensemble Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). Local young musicians with their counterparts from the Munich School of Music. Programme includes Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.
42 The List 25 September — 8 October 1992