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Gig review: Brass Jaw
20 May 2013 - Herald [ news ]
Brass Jaw may wish to consider playing on railway station concourses more often.
Great balls of fire: Top piano school is in tune with Sir Alex
20 May 2013 - Phil Miller - Herald [ news ]
After bowing out yesterday from football management, Sir Alex Ferguson has been offered the chance to tinkle the ivories at one of the UK's leading talent schools.
Scotland’s 2013 Eurovision triumph
20 May 2013 - Fraser Nelson - The Spectator [ news ]
Last night’s Eurovision was, as always, a collision of music, culture and politics.
The cream of Scottish music to play goNORTH 2013
20 May 2013 - Katy Spry - The List [ news ]
Important figures from across the creative industries - and more importantly, a heap of great bands - are once again flocking to Inverness for the annual goNORTH festival.
Gig review: Stag & Dagger
20 May 2013 - David Pollock - Scotsman [ news ]
In A climate where start-up festivals come and go and city-based multi-venue events seem to be finding it tough to achieve any degree of longevity, it’s pleasing to report that promoter PCL’s annual one-day Stag and Dagger jaunt around Glasgow appears to have reached its fifth anniversary in good health.
Classical review: RSNO - Elijah
20 May 2013 - Kenneth Walton - Scotsman [ news ]
How strange to hear Mendelssohn’s Elijah in German.
Gig review: Mr McFall’s Chamber
20 May 2013 - David Kettle - Scotsman [ news ]
With empanadas in the bar and candles flickering on the intimate tables that had replaced the usual Queen’s Hall seating, we could just about have been in a sultry Buenos Aires nightclub – well, maybe.
Classical review: BBC SSO - Rite of Spring
20 May 2013 - Kenneth Walton - Scotsman [ news ]
STRAVINSKY reckoned that the conductor should be little more than a time beater.
Cal MacAninch plays Henry V with the RSNO
16 May 2013 - Scottish Music Centre [ news ]
Acclaimed stage and screen Scottish actor Cal MacAninch, who recently appeared in BBC drama series Downtown Abbey, narrates the tale of the 15th Century English monarch, as part of William Walton’s Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s (RSNO) final concerts of the 2012:13 Season.
Bagpipes in pop music
16 May 2013 - Herald [ news ]
The White Stripes did it.
