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Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
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"....
Jun 6 2008
MEZZO soprano Rowan Hellier and Sholto Kynoch (piano) gave the final lunchtime recital at this year’s Festival of the Arts....
Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
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....
Jun 6 2008
PERTH Festival of the Arts 2008 was once again privileged to have English Touring Opera return to Perth Theatre with two new productions....
Jun 6 2008
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....
