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An unsurprisingly good turn-out for a wet Friday in Edinburgh when James Yorkston, along with a few familiar…
This new production is set in the Victorian era and opens with a large and old-fashioned box camera pointing…
The two composers featured in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert at the Queen’s Hall were Robert Schumann…
Although written by the French composer Maurice Ravel during the First World War and with each movement…
Sitting behind the Orchestra were one hundred and fifteen or so members of the Junior Chorus - ranging in age…
Owen & Olly’s Christmas Stocking is a cracker of a concert that gives adults the excuse to let their hair…
This production of Bohemian life is centred on a flea market in Paris in the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties.
It was a privilege to be invited once again to the annual Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert which is the show…
San Francisco drone-rockers Wooden Shjips have spent the past ten years slowly building a reputation for…
Má vlast is Bedřich Smetana’s take on the history of the Czech Republic. We heard the complete Má vlast - all…
A jig called post-modernity
Several hundred enthusiasts were in the stalls an hour before the concert started to hear the conversation…
Mr. Cannon’s passion for all things historical is infectious, as he makes real the sort of magical history…
Although the Usher Hall has been in use after renovation for more than a year now, the outside work has only…
There’s one musical instrument that is permanently at the back of the stage of the Usher Hall - its organ. It…
Peter Oundjian's opening remarks focussed us on a programme by American composers.
Buddy rides high on the crest of a giant nostalgia wave. Now in its 25th year, this highly successful show…
The Tuesday lunchtime concerts at the Reid Concert Hall, beside the McEwan Hall, are popular not just because…
The concert opened with a little played reworked single movement of the incidental music Sibelius wrote for…
Straightaway we see Orfeo and Euridice frolicking, but then Euridice is taken ill and dies.