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Review: Great Big Gilbert & Sullivan Show at Perth Theatre

TO QUOTE Gilbert one could only feel ‘modified rapture’ at the Great Big Gilbert & Sullivan Show on Saturday night in Perth Theatre. I would have to go further and say that it was the most ordinary show I attended at this year’s Perth Festival of the Arts. Read

The Bell Lawrie Festival Concert at Perth Concert Hall

THE curtain came down on the 2008 Perth Festival of the Arts with a star-studded gala concert featuring four international artists performing a selection of popular works with the world renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. To have one high calibre soloist appearing with the orchestra would be a highlight, but to have a line-up of four famous artists of this calibre was to make this concert very special indeed. Read

Kinross High School concert

THE sixth concert given by schools at this year’s Perth Festival of Arts featured Kinross High School which played a very varied programme and included musical styles from the 16th century to modern times before a sizeable audience. Read

Glenalmond College school lunchtime concert

THE seventh and final School Lunchtime concert was given by four Lower 6 music students of Glenalmond College, accompanied by Robert Gower (piano), director of music. First on stage was tenor Oliver Boyd, who sang "Virgin, Tutto Amor" by the baroque composer Durante, a beautiful prayerful song, "Silent Noon" by Vaughan Williams, a very atmospheric piece, "Take These Lips Away" by Madeleine Daing, a neo baroque song, setting Tudor period words to 20th century music and "Simply Strauss" by Gershwin, his tribute to the "Walt King". Read

Music on a Saturday morning

MEZZO soprano Rowan Hellier and Sholto Kynoch (piano) gave the final lunchtime recital at this year’s Festival of the Arts. Read

Review: Nash Ensemble at Perth Concert Hall

PERTH Festival of the Arts’ engagement of the Nash Ensemble was a masterstroke. The flexible nature of this ensemble allowed them to bring to Perth those chamber works of a larger nature, which Perth Chamber Music Society’s concert, though excellent, cannot programme because of their more intimate venue. Read

Review: English Touring Opera at Perth Theatre

PERTH Festival of the Arts 2008 was once again privileged to have English Touring Opera return to Perth Theatre with two new productions. Read

Review: Schools’ Concert: Perth Academy

THE fourth school concert at this year’s Perth Festival of Arts was given by Perth Academy and as in past years, the event attracted a good audience, which was treated to a varied programme of instrumental ensemble and solo music. Read

Review: Rebus McTaggart at Perth Theatre

AS a Taggartee and an enthusiast of Taggart's east coast equivalent (of sorts), Rebus, this reviewer had been spitting mad at missing Richard Thomson as Rebus McTaggart at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was pleased that the show was in the Perth Festival programme. Read

Concert crowds get high on disco fever

PERTH'S Festival of the Arts got stuck in a welcome timewarp as Calvin Harris wowed the audience by bringing his very own brand of disco to the Fair City. Read

Making a mockery of his gruelling schedule

INVITING comedy boffin Dara O’Briain to round off his epic UK and Ireland tour in the Fair City was a masterstroke by the Festival of the Arts organisers. Read

Review: Emma Kirkby and Florilegium at St John's Kirk

Dame Emma is probably the most famous British singer in the authentic practice movement and attained a high placing on a survey of critics about “The Greatest Sopranos”. She has made several hundred recordings ranging from Hildegarde of Bingen, through madrigals and, an especial love, lute songs, through Baroque cantatas and oratorios to J.C.Bach, Mozart and Haydn – there are even a few forays into the 20th Century for Amy Beach and Stravinsky. As she herself prefers live concerts to recordings it was a pleasure to see her here in concert in Perth. Read

Review: Morrison's Academy schools' concert

Their well-varied programme began with the String Orchestra and Alexandra Taylor (cello) in the Third Movement (Allegro) of Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in A Minor. The balance between soloist and strings was good throughout, with the soloist mastering the technical difficulties. Read

Review: The Nash Ensemble at Perth Concert Hall

THE Nash Ensemble of London, this year’s Artists in Residence at Perth Festival, presented the first of their three concerts in the Concert Hall with a morning Coffee Concert that demonstrated their wonderful musicianship, versatility and diversity. Read

Review: The London Community Gospel Choir at Perth Concert Hall

PERTH Concert Hall resonated to the sound of gospel singing from the London Community Gospel Choir. Read

Review: Schools’ concert: Auchterarder High School

AUCHTERARDER High School, now known as the Community School of Auchterarder, provided the third of this year’s Perth Festival of Arts School Concerts. This was its debut at the festival. Read

Curtain on the festival

THE eclectic programme for this year’s Perth Festival draws to a close on Sunday with the sell-out Bell Lawrie Festival Concert in Perth Concert Hall featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lesley Garrett and Julian Lloyd Webber. Read

Telly musicians camping in Perth Theatre

IT was the most outrageous, ‘campest’ performance ever witnessed at Perth Theatre – and it was also possibly the most entertaining couple of hours that the majority of ticket holders had enjoyed in a long time. Read

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin

THIS evening of laid-back jazz was titled “When Lights Are Low” – and indeed a cabaret, lights down low ambience would have better suited the occasion rather than the glaring lights and empty front rows which obviously irritated jazz singer Claire Martin. Read

The Magic of Dance

BBC Television’s Strictly Come Dancing stars Camilla Dallerup and Ian Waite never put a foot wrong as they took to the stage at Perth Concert Hall on Monday evening. Read

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