A Highland Fling

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25th June 2009 at 08:12 - 0 comments


The last time Londoner Robin Ticciati accompanied the Orchestra on a Highland Tour, we all got a bit excited because he quickly established a wonderful rapport with the band. We don't usually rush into relationships; in fact we quite like to invite conductors back to the podium for a few more dates, just to get to know them a bit better, perhaps go for dinner even! But with Robin, the band just knew this was the 'real thing'. So our MD pursued Robin, and a few months after his first dates with us, he had agreed to be the SCO's Principal Conductor, starting September 2009.

Since then both Robin and the Orchestra have been so busy with work that we've not seen a lot of each other, you know how it is... But, as the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and so it is that we skip into rehearsals, knowing that some happy sparks are going to get set alight this week!

So here's the plan: bit more fine-tuning in rehearsals today in Edinburgh, and then tomorrow we all jump on the A9 to Strathpeffer Pavilion (8pm, Friday 26 June), the magical Universal Hall in Findhorn (8pm, Saturday 27 June) and an SCO premiere in Pitlochry Festival Theatre (8pm, Sunday 28 June). Oh and by the way, we're playing Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande, Poulenc's Flute Sonata (arr. Berkeley), Berlioz's Overture, The Flight into Egypt, before finishing off in timely fashion with Haydn's Symphony No 101 'Clock'.

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