Edinburgh I Folk at the Oak Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Cantrip.
Biggar
I Tinto 5 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, 01899 850228. £28 weekend ticket. Acid-croft groovers Shooglenifty, and the virtuoso bodhran and flute featuring in Flook! are some of the attractions at this annual rural event. Also ceilidhs, dances, sessions, workshops, crafts, kids’ events and camping.
Glenrothes
I The Balalaika Folk Ensemble Rothes Halls, Rothcs Square, 01592 611101. 8pm. £8 (£6—£7). From Glasgow’s twin city, Rostov-on-Don, and combining Western and Russian, traditional and contemporary music, they’ve even got a giant bass balalaika.
SATURDAY 2
Edinburgh
I Mela Pilrig Park, off Leith Walk, 557 1400. Free. The annual multicultural festival of music and dance. For details see preview page 27.
I Folk at the Oak Royal Oak. Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Cantrip.
Biggar I Tinto 5 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, 01899 850228. £28 weekend ticket. See Fri 1.
Edinburgh
I Elspeth Smellie Edinburgh Castle, 225 9846. 1pm. 2pm & 3pm. £7 (£2—£5). First of a series of Sun afternoon performances features harper/singer Elspeth Smellie presenting her original songs drawn from myth, legend and the landscape of her native Borders, as recorded on her new album Attitude.
I Mela Pilrig Park, off Leith Walk, 557 1400. Free. See Sat 2.
I Folk at the Oak Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Ex- Wolfstone singer Ivan Drever.
Biggar I Tinto 5 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, 01899 850228. £28 weekend ticket. See Fri 1.
classical &
opera listings
Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least eight days before publication. Classical listings compiled by Kelly Apter.
- THURSDAY 24 Glasgow
I Cornwall Youth Wind Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Janet Elston conducts the orchestra in Philip Sparke’s Theatre Music and Nigel Hess’ Thames Journey among others.
Glasgow
I Cornwall Youth Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). David Frost conducts the orchestra in Dvorak’s Symphony No 4, plus works by Brahms, Copland and Simon Speare.
SATURDAY 26
Glasgow
I Cornwall Youth Wind Orchestra and Cornwall Youth Brass Band RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Wind Orchestra conductor Janet Elston is at the baton for Philip Sparke’s Theatre Music, a new commission by Geoffrey Kinder inspired by Cornwall and Devon, Great Westerns and works by Eric Whitacre and Nigel Hess. Followed by Chris North conducting the Brass Band in a diverse selection from Malcolm Arnold and others.
Glasgow
I Sunday Brunch Momac, 321 Hope Street, 353 1660. 12.30-—2.3()pm. A firm favourite with locals from the Theatre Royal and RSAMD, this regular Sun bash features a changing programme of light classical music performed by both professionals and students.
I Sunday Music Recitals House For An Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10
Shooglenifty play Tinto 5, Fri 1—Sun 3 Sep
Dumbreck Road, 353 4773. 1—3pm. £3.50 (£2.50). An afternoon of classical guitar sounds in the Music Room.
Edinburgh
I Michael Bonaventure Christ Church, Momingside Road, 667 3633. 7pm. £6 (£4). Organist Bonaventure is joined by soprano Katharine Douglas and pianist James Douglas for works by Faure, Stanley, Purcell and others.
MONDAY 28 Glasgow
I Kelvin Ensemble RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Acclaimed pianist Murray McLachlan joins the ensemble for Erik Chisholm’s Piano Concerto No I.
TUESDAY 29 Glasgow
I East Dunbartonshire Primary Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). George Kelly conducts the talented wee ones in Dvorak’s Symphonic Dance No 8, plus works by Bizet and Smetana.
I West of Scotland Schools Concert Band RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Russell Cowieson conducts the orchestra in works by Vaughan Williams, John McCabe, Eric Whitacre and others.
WEDNESDAY 30
Glasgow
I West of Scotland Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Brahms’ Tragic Overture, Debussy’s
L 'Apres Midi (1 ’un Faune and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite are all ably handled by this talented young orchestra and conductor William Conway.
Maybole
I Nicola Benedetta Culzean Country Park, 01655 884400. 7.45pm. £7. Violinist Benedetta isjoined by Isobel Anderson on piano for works by Schubert, Debussy, Haydn and Beethoven.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Schools String Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Andrew Morris is at the baton for this evening of string opulence, featuring Bizet’s Carmen Suite and Sibelius’ Romance among others.
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I Ayrshire Youth Orchestra Magnum Theatre, Harbourside, 01294 278381. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). The young musicians perform Lochinvar, a specially written piece by Edinburgh-based composer Edward Harper.
Glasgow
I E 2 Beat Percussion Ensemble and Renfrewshire Schools Percussion Ensemble RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (Free—£2). Danny Howard conducts the Norfolk-based ensemble in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn, Clifford Lee’s Fanfare for P’rcussion and more. Followed by TA. Boyle conducting some of his own compositions, plus an arrangement of John Lennon’s Imagine, and joy ofjoys, the theme tune from Cagney andLacey! I Lothian Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free-£3.50). William Conway conducts Edinburgh-based composer Lyell C resswell’s Ixion, Dvorak’s Symphony No 9: From The New World and Bartok’s Hungarian Peasant Songs.
Irvine I Ayrshire Youth Orchestra Magnum Theatre, Harbourside, 01294 278381.
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7.30pm. £6 (£4). See Thu 31.
SATURDAY 2 Glasgow
I Fife Youth String Orchestra and Fife Youth Percussion Ensemble RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (Free—£2). Holst’s Brook Green Suite and Mozart’s Divertimento in C pave the way for James Oswald’s Sonata of Scottish Themes. Followed by the Percussion Ensemble, who perform Glassock’s Street Talk, plus works by Rosauro and Bruce Fraser.
I Fife Youth Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). Graeme Wilson conducts the orchestra in Peter Maxwell Davies’ popular An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise and Bemstein’s Suite: On the Waterfront. in a programme which also features works by Glinka, Eric Coates and Beethoven.
Kirkcaldy
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Adam Smith Theatre, Bennochy Road, 01592 412929. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£12.50—£13.50). The RSNO perform Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’, Mozart’s [fine Kleine Nachtmusik and Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, under the baton of conductor Garry Walker.
lrvrno ; I Ayrshire Youth Orchestra Magnum g Theatre, Harbourside, 01294 278381. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). See Thu 31.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (Free—£3.50). The closing concert of this year’s Festival of British Youth Orchestras finds John Maxwell Geddes conducting Edward MacCunn’s Overture: Land of the Mountain and the Flood, and works by Sibelius, Edward McGuire and Dvorak.
THURSDAY 7 Glasgow
I Das Rheingold Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 332 9000. 7.15pm. £3.85—£50.60. Scottish Opera present the first part of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle, with Die Walkure. Siegfried and Gotterdammerung to follow over the next three years. Set in a land ofgods. dwarves, giants and water maidens, Rheingold is a fantastical tale of greed and power, brought bang up to date by director Tim Albery. See review.
I An Evening With George and Ira Gershwin Pollok House, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 616 6410. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Soprano, baritone and piano quintet Cameo present this fun night of music and words as part of the ‘Summer Evening Concerts‘ series. Dressed in suitable garb, the group deliver some of the American songwriting duo’s finest works. interspersed with witticisms from Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash and the deliciously wicked Dorothy Parker.
For Festival music listings see the Festival Listings supplement for day by day coverage.
Previews and reviews of acts appearing in the Festival can be found throughout the time sections of the Festival Magazine.
24 Aug—7 Sep 2000 THE LIST 3‘