Club to host pupils' show
Club to host pupils' show
A BUS full of young musicians from St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh will arrive at Cairns Church, pictured, in Milngavie on Saturday December 13 to give a Christmas Concert for Milngavie Music Club. More than 20 senior pupils promise a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by Mozart, Schubert, Milhaud and Piazzola, plus a brand-new composition, Leaving Grimsay, written by sixth-year pupil Padraig Morrison from South Uist.
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Baroque back
Ludus baroque, Herald Angels winners for their performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, play their regular pre-Christmas date in Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk on Tuesday December 3. The period instrumental ensemble's Christmas Oratorio by J S Bach is an established feature of the capital's calendar and will, as usual, be conducted by group founder Richard Neville-Towle. His soloists this year are soprano Sophie Bevan, mezzo Daniela Lehner, tenor Robert Murray and baritone William Berger.
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Britten tribute
DUNBLANE Cathedral Arts Guild makes its contribution to celebrations of the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten with a concert by the Rosenethe Singers and the Scottish Bach Players on Sunday December 8 at 7.30pm. Britten's Ceremony of Carols and St Nicolas will feature, conducted by Matthew Beetschen. Tickets are £15, £12 for concessions. The Guild's first concert of 2014 will be served with mulled wine in the Cathedral Hall on January 19 and features the jazz stylings of Swing 2014.
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Fergus's first
A NEW piece from the musical partnership of composer Tom Cunningham and writer Alexander McCall Smith will be performed by Edinburgh Studio Opera under the direction of Stuart Hope and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones at Edinburgh's Queeen's Hall on Tuesday December 10. Fergus of Galloway, a mini-opera for seven singers, follows The Okavango Macbeth and the Herald Angel-winning A Tapestry of Many Threads, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012.
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Cross-border
The ensemble theatre company at Dundee Rep will team up with Birmingham Repertory Theatre for the first time next year on a co-production of the 1985 comedy Woman in Mind, which Roxana Silbert, Birmingham's artistic director, describes as "arguably Alan Ayckbourn's best play." The revival will open in Dundee on May 21, running to June 6, before playing Birmingham June 13 to 28. Dundee Rep chief executive and joint artistic director Philip Howard said: "It seems fitting that two of the best-known and most awarded theatre companies are coming together to present theatre on both sides of the border."
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