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EIF – back to classical music

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Although it is not possible to bring large orchestras from overseas this year is regarded as an opportunity for Scottish and UK orchestras to take centre stage at the Edinburgh International Festival. Some of...

Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Oresteia : This Restless House****

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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 the reimagined Mycenae palace of King Agamemnon set in an...

Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – REVIEW – Rhinoceros****

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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 against the iniquitous corruption of language. Shouting out loud against many...

Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar

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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 of this year’s International Festival. As part of the International Festival’s...

Edinburgh International Festival 2014 – REVIEW – Closing Concert *****

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Whether it was modesty, reticence or goodness knows what else, Edinburgh International Festival director – and respected composer – Jonathan Mills had left it until the final concert of his final Festival to programme...

Edinburgh International Festival 2014 – REVIEW – Delusion of the Fury *****

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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 Harry Partch are astonishingly evocative. That’s without even hearing the...

New Honorary President appointed to Edinburgh International Festival

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Valery Gergiev is the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh International Festival. The Russian conductor, whose association with the Festival began 20 years ago, is only the third person to be invited to take...