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A Midsummer meditation mix from the SCO Chorus

SCO Chorus © Christopher Bowen (2022)

The SCO Chorus in a meditative mood for midsummer in music by Glass, Taverner, MacMillan and Duruflé. 

A warm reunion: RSNO and Neeme Järvi spread French delight

Neeme Järvi © Simon van Boxtel

RSNO is reunited with Neeme Järvi, joined by Catriona Morison in a crowd-pleasing programme of Delibes, Bizet and Saint-Saëns.

Pergolesi and Bingham with Red Note and JAM

Many composers would be delighted to be sharing the bill with Pergolesi, particularly if the ratio of programmed pieces were 2:1 in their favour. Judith Bingham combined composing and singing careers for many years, but she now concentrates solely on composing. However, she does – as she confessed in a YouTube interview – compose unconsciously in “breath lengths”.

The Okavango Macbeth - UK Premiere in Edinburgh.

While on a wildlife safari holiday in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, Alexander McCall Smith asked his guides to take him across a river to where two primatologists were researching baboon behaviour. Baboons are matriarchal and uniquely in common with humans, high status is inherited.