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Alex Smoke Classical Project
2 Sep 2010 - Robin Murray - Clash [ news ]
Scottish producer Alex Smoke is working on a new film score, combining his acclaimed electronica with classical influences.
Scottish Opera’s future now under threat, warns union
2 Sep 2010 - Phil Miller - Herald [ news ]
The future of Scottish Opera is in jeopardy if proposed cuts to the contracts and pay of its orchestra go ahead, the Musicians’ Union has declared.
Music Like a Vitamin
2 Sep 2010 - Paul Mitchell - Skinny Mag [ news ]
Rod Jones and Emma Pollock speak exclusively to The Skinny about the making of First Edition, their contribution to the forthcoming Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.
Mercury rising: West Fifer Calum's band up for top music award
2 Sep 2010 - Dunfermline Press [ news ]
A DUNFERMLINE musician and his fellow members in an up-and-coming jazz band been nominated for one of music’s most prestigious awards.
Prepare to be enlightened
2 Sep 2010 - Press and Journal [ news ]
A brand-new musical dedicated to a true story charting the life of one of Scotland's great thinkers and eccentrics premieres at Aberdeen Arts Centre Theatre from September 8-11.
Highland heaven for culture vultures
2 Sep 2010 - Susan Welsh - Press and Journal [ news ]
TOMORROW is a busy day for Celtic rock band Skerryvore.
Ready to scale the heights
2 Sep 2010 - Herald [ news ]
It might not be immediately apparent on studying the form sheets and playlists, but the ninth triennial Scottish International Piano Competition, which begins next week, has undergone a root and branch appraisal which has resulted in some striking and dramatic changes.
Kenneth Walton: More than enough room for both International and Fringe festivals in Edinburgh in August
2 Sep 2010 - Kenneth Walton - Scotsman [ news ]
All this talk of merging the Edinburgh International Festival with the Fringe is perennial bluster.
One hundred not out for concert season that simply won't lie down
2 Sep 2010 - Roger Wright - Scotsman [ news ]
One of the most touching photographs I know is that of Sir Henry Wood standing among the ruins of the Queen's Hall in London soon after it was bombed in May 1941.
Jim Gilchrist: Honour to the memory of the unsung hero who could forgive but not forget
2 Sep 2010 - Jim Gilchrist - Scotsman [ news ]
"UNSUNG heroes" was a phrase much exercised in reports of last month's 65th anniversary of VJ Day, and in particular the fate of the men of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry who were among some 62,000 British and Empire troops captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942.
