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Oct 27, 2011, 2:09 pm
Great concert. 4 stars. Reviewed on Bachtrack
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Jun 28, 2011, 1:05 pm
Last opera in the academic year at RSAMD in Glasgow was Hansel and Gretel. What a magical evening! Read my review on Bachtrack.
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May 12, 2011, 7:29 pm
The CATS shortlist is now out.
Lots of good things to choose from, and of the entries I have seen, I agree with the critics by and large. Encouraging to see the Royal Lyceum back in the running, joining CATS stalwarts Dundee Rep and The Traverse.
Particularly outstanding was Roadkill, which wa... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2011, 8:07 am
Beth Mackay and Andrew McTaggart in The Okavango Macbeth - photo Marc Marnie
UK premiere of Alexander McCall Smith’s opera: Macbeth as told by baboons.
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Apr 18, 2011, 5:41 am
Anthony Marwood was guest director for the final set of concerts in the 2010/11 series from the Scottish Ensemble.
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Mar 29, 2011, 7:29 pm
Intermezzo is an opera based on the real life happenings in the relationship between Richard Strauss and his wife Pauline, characterised on stage as Robert and Christine Storch.
Roland Wood, Anita Bader in Intermezzo Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Maestro Robert takes on a long conducting stint... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2011, 7:08 am
For seasoned opera goers, the phrase ‘Community Opera’ can conjure up all sorts of feelings – not all good. These projects can sometimes be well-meaning, worthy and just a bit dull unless you are taking part, or a parent of a young performer.
So it is a delight to report that the doub... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2011, 2:30 pm
The teaming up of RSAMD’s best students with Scottish Opera has now become a much-anticipated annual event: it is a showcase of how a national opera company can work together with a national music conservatoire to provide immensely valuable experience, and a chance for the youngsters to... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2011, 12:50 pm
Boo! Boo! Boo! to Horsecross.
Rotten Tomatoes for Horsecross
Horsecross which runs Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre has just introduced booking fees after being booking fee free since it opened – apart from touring shows which imposed their own booking fees.
Booking fees are a rip... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 3:16 pm
Strange things happen in bad weather, and in December, traffic wardens in Edinburgh were unable to operate properly due to the sheer volume of snow. Parking bays, yellow lines etc. were completely obscured, and piles of snow were left at the side of the roads.
Many Councils, not just Edinburgh,... Comment - Like
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Dec 21, 2010, 5:55 am
The Scottish Ensemble - Photo Joannne Green
Outside St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth it was minus 8 deg C, and pavements round about were extremely difficult to use due to thick uneven layers of ice. Nevertheless, a decent crowd turned out for the welcome annual Candlelit Concert treat from... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2010, 3:17 pm
New opera at the Traverse is becoming an annual exciting date to not to miss. Music Theatre Wales made a return visit with In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass after their successful presentation of Letters of Love Betrayed in 2009. Before that, Lyall Creswell’s Good Angel, Bad Angel ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2010, 10:09 am
We tried to get to see Roadkill back in the summer at the Tron ahead of its run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it scooped a clutch of awards, and where we also failed to secure tickets. We tried again for the recent run at the Tron, and initially failed, but we were put on a waiting l... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2010, 7:07 am
The publicity promised much: Abigail Docherty’s new play,winner of the Tron’s Open Stage Competition, given a full production by Andy Arnold and his team. I wanted to know more about these Scottish women who headed off to World War One battlezones to do their bit.
The play was a gre... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2010, 8:36 pm
There was a big political conference in Perth this week closing off the Concert Hall for days, so the Scottish Ensemble decamped to St Ninian’s Cathedral for the first concert this season. Although the acoustics are pretty good, there is the constant rumble of traffic at the busy junction outs... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2010, 11:29 am
I wanted to catch Corinne Bailey Rae after seeing her on the Abbey Road TV programme a while back - first with Put Your Records On, but then, more interestingly with Harbie Hancock singing River - the bass player and drummer in that clip were in Jeff Beck’s band when he played at Ronnie Scott... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 9:55 am
Wilde productions from the south of England brought the first touring version of Alan Bennet’s play since the original NT production to Perth. I was curious to see this having enjoyed the film when it came out with Nigel Hawthorne.
This was the third theatre venue of the tour, and the first... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2010, 6:33 am
Sylvain Chormet, creator of the quirky full length animation Belville Rendezvous, has focussed on a poignant Jacques Tati story relocated, like his film studio, to Edinburgh. The Illusionist opened the Edinburgh Film Festival back in June, and opened in cinemas across the country on the 20... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2010, 4:40 pm
Looking through actors’ biographies in theatre programmes in Scotland, Decky Does a Bronco is a play which actors are clearly proud to have been in, because it crops up time and again.
Grid Iron is reviving this 10 year old play by Donald Maxwell. It has been touring Scotland since Ju... Comment - Like
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Mar 27, 2010, 4:05 pm
We have had a very long winter with a dump of a foot of snow on Boxing Day night which hung about for ages as the temperature did not rise above zero for weeks.
We had another foot of very wet snow a few weeks ago which stuck to and broke the overhead electric lines. Perth city had no... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2010, 9:45 am
“Have you tried turning it off and restarting it again?” must be anyone who has worked in computer support’s favourite phrase. To be fair, if your computer starts behaving oddly, not to mention freezing, that it a great first step to solving things.
Virgin Train
But yesterday this w... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2010, 1:53 pm
There is a brand new collaboration between BBC Scotland and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama across all atristic genres. Today saw a wonderful workshop with top players from RSAMD getting the chance to play a concerto with the whole BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the City Halls.
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Feb 3, 2010, 1:07 pm
Ian Dury and the Blockheads was part of the soundtrack to my College days, as was the Stiff tour which finally reached the northern outpost at Aberdeen. More recently, Ian and the band played Perth Festival of the Arts – Ian was pretty ill by this stage, but it was still a great gig, and the B... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2010, 1:55 pm
I was not sure that I was going to like this film about John Lennon’s early life, but in fact it was surprisingly enjoyable. It followed John Lennon from his last year or so at school to just before he went off to Hamburg.
Nowhere Boy
John lived with his Aunt Mimi since he was small, b... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2010, 6:46 am
I enjoy Arthur Miller plays, but had never seen The Price, so a visit to The Lyceum’s new production was a must. Especially as director John Dove had done such a good job of Death of a Salesman and more particularly, All My Sons.
The play is set in the attic of a New York apartment, stuff... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2010, 12:06 pm
The Grand Match - Lake of Menteith 1979
The Grand Match is a massive outdoor curling competition, which takes place in Scotland only when there is enough ice to play on. The ice needs to be around 9 inches thick to be safe, as there can be up to 2000 curlers with their stones taking part. ... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2010, 11:33 am
With the current weather to cope with, our local Council in Perth and Kinross have been struggling to empty the bins of the more rural folk like us. Like many Councils, they now empty bins fortnightly, and we have two wheelybins at the end of our road – one for general waste, and the ot... Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2010, 3:19 pm
With the press and media so preoccupied with snow stories, and whether Gordon Brown will be ousted from No 10 ahead of a general election, the small stories struggle for space.
But today there is a small story which really matters: The Festival of British Youth Orchestras which has taken pla... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2010, 1:55 pm
It has been really pretty cold, even for round here. And we are told to expect 2 more weeks of the same at least. It has not really been above freezing much since well before Christmas, and often well below freezing.
In the country, we are pretty used to coping with adverse conditions,... Comment - Like
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