THE 60th birthday of Sir James MacMillan, the Scottish composer, is to be celebrated in two concerts this week.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) will play the concerts at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 21 February, and at the City Halls, Glasgow, on 22 February.
The concerts will include Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, as well as two works by Sir James: Veni, Veni Emmanuel and Seven Last Words from the Cross.
The SCO said: "The partnership between Sir James MacMillan and the SCO goes back decades and has resulted in many remarkable new works.
"None has taken the world so much by storm as the percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel.
"It has been performed hundreds of times since its 1992 premiere and remains a thrilling experience live: a superb, celebratory highlight for this 60th Birthday Concert.
"Seven Last Words from the Cross is no less of a tour de force: a vivid, shocking and heartbreaking depiction of the crucifixion."
www.sco.org.uk
THE Dunedin Consort has announced a new chief executive, Jo Buckley.
She will take over from Alfonso Leal del Ojo, whose appointment as the new Chief Executive of The English Concert was recently announced.
Ms Buckley joined Dunedin Consort as head of artistic planning in January 2018.
Sir Muir Russell, chairman of Dunedin Consort, said: "I and my fellow Directors are very pleased to be making this appointment.
"We have seen at first hand, in Scotland, in London and on a number of engagements in Europe just how well Jo has managed the work of Dunedin, and we have full confidence that she will excel in the role of Chief Executive.
"The programme for the year ahead, in Scotland and internationally, that Jo has helped to
put together since she joined us, is varied and exciting and provides a brilliant start to her
tenure."
Ms Buckley said: "Working with Dunedin Consort over the past year has been a hugely rewarding experience
and an enormous pleasure. Few groups are as widely admired, or as warmly embraced, and
it is a real honour to be given the opportunity to lead the organisation as it begins its next
chapter."
www.dunedin-consort.org.uk
THE political and cultural impact of borders is at the centre of a new exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh.
The group exhibition, called Borderlines, explores borders, and has been curated to coincide with Brexit.
As part of the show, more than 300 blocks of sugar are geometrically assembled on the floor of Talbot Rice’s White Gallery for Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan’s Monument of Sugar.
The large-scale installation is made from European sugar that was exported to Africa and then re-imported back to Europe as a work of art.
A film on the Pergamon Altar – an ancient Greek monument now housed in Berlin – will also be projected as part of the exhibition.
A third film charts the rise and fall of a Dutch fishing community.
Turner-Prize nominated Willie Doherty’s photographic work captures scenes from the Irish border between Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.
A panel discussion with some of the artists will take place on 22 February at 5pm.
www.ed.ac.uk/talbot-rice/events
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