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IT is a decade since those hooves started thundering in Edinburgh's direction and the biennial Manchester International Festival has stolen a fortnight's march on the EIF by announcing the programme for its 2015 event. The programme is the last from founding director Alex Poots and concentrates on premieres as in the past.
Highlights include a new musical inspired by Alice in Wonderland by Damon Albarn and Moira Buffini and a one-off gig by Bjork. Visual artist Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Part will have work inspired by and dedicated to each other at the recently reopened Whitworth Art Gallery. Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon will be making a new collaboration with pianist Helene Grimaud called Neck of the Woods, with Charlotte Rampling as raconteur.
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Tenor Jamie MacDougall, pictured, will be singing Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe at Kilmardinny House, Bearsden this evening from 7.30pm, at the invitation of the Kilmardinny Music Circle. He will be accompanied by Fali Pavri at the piano and as well as the song cycle, MacDougall will be performing songs by Schuber, Ravel, Copland and Benjamin Britten.
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St Andrew's University made a World Book Day announcement yesterday that it has added three historically important rare editions to its special collections, with the assistance of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The three volumes date from the 1630s and are of work by John Donne, George Herbert and Thomas Malory. The second edition of Donne's poems included 17 works not in the first edition when it was published in 1635. George Herbert's devotional work The Temple was posthumously published in 1633 by Nicholas Ferrar in Cambridge. Publisher Williams Stansby's pre-Civil War 1634 edition of Malory's Morte d'Arthur was based on Caxton and was the only one available until almost 200 hundred years later.
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Scotland Sings has launched new Chorus Awards to showcase the activities choirs are involved in and to celebrate the people involved in running them and singing in them. Anyone can nominate a group, individual choir member or musical director for the Local Connection, Newcomer, Milestone, Unique Story, Inspiration and Young People categories. Nominations can be made via an online form by the closing date of Friday May 15 and should relate to events or activities between May 16 2014 and that date.
Winners will be announced online on Friday June 19and will form part of a showcase on the Scotland Sings website. To find out more about the individual categories and make a nomination see http://projects.scottishcultureonline.com/scotlandsings/chorus-awards/
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