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EIF – Opening Concert – St Matthew Passion at The Usher Hall
On Sunday the second of the opening concerts of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) was Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Usher Hall.
Conducted...
EIF – back to classical music
Although it is not possible to bring large orchestras from overseas this year is regarded as an opportunity for Scottish and UK orchestras to...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Oresteia : This Restless House****
Four hours plus of blood soaked, funereal pyre smoked havoc. A charnel house writhing in chaos quivering on foundations of betrayal and immorality.
Welcome to...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – REVIEW – Rhinoceros****
Long before pernicious 'post-truth/alternative fact`doggerel insinuated itself within the lexicon of Trump-speak, Ionesco's sobering voice, though often gagged by Romanian state censorship, had raged...
Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar
Senior Pupils introduce their school as a Festival venue
Pupils at Castlebrae Community High School, in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh, today hosted their own launch...
Edinburgh International Festival 2014 – REVIEW – Closing Concert *****
Whether it was modesty, reticence or goodness knows what else, Edinburgh International Festival director – and respected composer – Jonathan Mills had left it...
Edinburgh International Festival 2014 – REVIEW – Delusion of the Fury *****
Quadrangularis Reversum, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Belly Drums, Spoils of War: even just the names of the outlandish instruments invented and constructed by American maverick composer...
New Honorary President appointed to Edinburgh International Festival
Valery Gergiev is the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival. The Russian conductor, whose association with the Festival began 20 years ago,...
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