Edinburgh News: music

The British composer Thomas Adès’ opera Powder Her Face took its inspiration from the scandalous and salacious divorce of the Duchess of Argyll in 1963.

Fiddle 2012, Edinburgh's annual fiddle festival, is back at the Queen’s Hall this month Friday 16 – Sunday 18 November 2012

For people of a certain age, Sparks will always be one of those weird bands who would show up on Top of the Pops in the seventies when eccentrically avant glitter-rock was at its peak.

Gaelic musical traditions and influences are thriving throughout Scotland, with the strong impact of the Gaelic cultural revival over recent years heavily influenced by the inextricable link between l

I was discussing with His Excellency the importance of music in a young person’s education; he told me that in his case it was six years of the trombone.

This was the second of the two introductory concerts for Peter Oundjian, the new Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

The theme of this Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert was the Romantic Age, a period in history when Europe was adapting to tumultuous events that had taken place at the turn of the nineteenth centu

In a world with all its problems, not to mention the busy lives we lead, it was a pleasure to enjoy a beautiful autumnal afternoon of music sung by the innocent voices of The Vienna Boys' Choir.

Robin Ticciati (the Principal Conductor of the SCO) is an aficionado of Mozart and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra started their new season with a marvelous rendition of Mozart’s opera Cosi fa

The first Scottish Women’s Health Fair in 1983 saw women coming together from across Scotland to explore alternative grassroots visions of women’s health and challenge the established m