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John McEwen: A musical genius with the Borders in his blood
17 Jun 2016 - JOHN PURSER - The National [ news ]
WHERE do Scottish composers come from? The answer is ?all over?.
Shipowner's son Hamish MacCunn sets sail for musical majesty
10 Jun 2016 - John Purser - The National [ news ]
LAST week I protested that few Scots, even educated ones, could name more than one or two Scottish composers of so-called ?classical? music.
John Purser: How a dying father gave Scotland a musical great
3 Jun 2016 - John Purser - The National [ news ]
IT is not usual for a 10-year-old lad to be taken by his father to study music in Germany and, on being left there in the ducal town of Sondershausen, told that he will never see his father again.
How music is attuned with our very identity
27 May 2016 - Alan Riach - The National [ news ]
WHEN Hugh MacDiarmid wrote his series of articles Contemporary Scottish Studies for the Scottish Educational Journal in the 1920s, he addressed seven specific subjects: literature, language, literary and cultural criticism, music, art, historiography, and education.
Visual arts review: Hinterland, St Peter?s Seminary, Cardross
21 Mar 2016 - JOYCE MCMILLAN - Scotsman [ review ]
ON A dark, windless night in early spring, up we go, into the woods near Cardross.
Anna Meredith ? Varmints
1 Mar 2016 - Bekki Bemrose - [ review ]
So, we?ve all been waiting for an experimental yet accessible album of electronic, big band hair metal which at once evokes ?80s computer game sound-effects and the future ? right? Right.
Dave Arcari releases fitting tribute to our lamented bard
20 Jan 2016 - RICK FULTON - Daily Record [ feature ]
SO WHAT would Rabbie Burns have been if he was alive today? A musical chameleon such as Bowie? A hip-hop poet such as Chuck D? Or a smooth R&B playboy such as Justin Bieber.
Hirda review ? a well-drawn chamber opera plays to the home crowd
29 Nov 2015 - Kate Molleson - Guardian [ review ]
****
Mareel, Lerwick
This new work from Glagsow?s NOISE, about the drama that ensues when an actor takes up with his brother?s new wife, is an appealing mix of accessible feisty.Hirda is Shetland's first opera in the native tongue
25 Nov 2015 - Kate Molleson - Herald [ news ]
Chris Stout is hunched over a vocal score, fiddle set down beside him on the lid of a Steinway grand.
Arts News
23 Sep 2015 - Rob Adams - Herald [ news ]
Impresario and radio presenter Alan Steadman celebrates the 25th birthday of his Jazz at Hospitalfield promotions with a specially assembled line-up in concert at the Arbroath venue on Saturday, October 24.
