Echoes of Holocaust
THERE are many pieces of music with aspirations to voicing the horrors of the Holocaust, but few have the strong claim of Viktor Ullman's piano sonata No 7.
Ullman died in Auschwitz in 1944, two days after he was transported there from Thereseinstadt. He had been persuaded by friends to leave his last completed work (the sonata) behind at that remarkable camp where so much music was created in such terrible circumstances.
Scots pianist Graeme McNaught soon will play the sonata in Prague at a Holocaust memorial concert, and there is an opportunity to hear him perform it in Glasgow on Sunday, April 10, at the Merchants' Hall, West George Street. The Ullman sonata is part of a programme, under the umbrella title Terra cotta, of "elemental" music featuring McNaught and mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin. She will sing five songs by Ullman's contemporary Franz Schreker as well as songs by Johannes Brahms. The programme is completed by four solo piano pieces by Luciano Berio. The concert begins at 7.45pm and tickets will be available at the door or in advance from 0141 639 6705.
Charity classics
BREAKING down the barriers between performers and audience is part of the founding ethos of the Edinburgh Philharmonic Orchestra. The 80-strong band plans to put that theory into practice at a concert in Edinburgh's Queen's Hall on Saturday, April 23, in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Led by the RSNO's Alexa Butterworth and conducted by Robert Dick, the orchestra will perform - from 7pm - a programme of youth-orientated classics, including the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Peer Gynt, Danse Macabre and the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
After 9pm, the event turns into a ceilidh, with the Crowdie House Ceilidh Band. Tickets for the concert are pounds-8 (concessions pounds-3) , and for the ceilidh a further pounds-7 (pounds-10 for the ceilidh alone) and are available from the Queen's Hall box office, 0131 668 2019.
Artists with a cause
PETER Howson, Philip Reeves, Beagles and Ramsay and Lucy Skaer are among the artists who have donated postcard-sized works to be auctioned to fund the catalogue for the degree show by this year's graduating students from Glasgow School of Art.
The 29 fourth-years will be the last to qualify under retiring head of painting Sandy Moffat, so it is little surprise that they have been able to recruit some of the nation's finest artists to their cause. To obtain an original A5 artwork, the place to be is St Jude's in Bath Street on Thursday, April 21, from 7pm. Viewing will be from noon, the auctioneer will be from Lyon and Turnbull, and it is OK to go along just to watch.
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