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Re:Connect Tea Dance concert: an interview with Kenny Moffat
18 March 2024
We speak to a member of the Scottish Dementia Working Group about what to expect from an SCO Tea Dance concert.Scandinavian myths in music
11 March 2024
An overview of Nordic legends retold in music, from Grieg to the present day.Beethoven and the Eroica theme
4 March 2024
What drew Beethoven to return to the same theme four times over?Sir James MacMillan: "there is great power in Scottish traditional music"
26 February 2024
With the SCO performing two of his works (including a world premiere) in late April, we speak to Scotland's greatest living composer.Two centuries of musical sunrises
19 February 2024
From Haydn to Maxwell Davies, composers have delighted in portraying the majesty of the rising sun. We look at a few of them ...Helen Grime: "I wanted to set poems about Joy"
12 February 2024
We speak to composer Helen Grime ahead of the UK premiere of her song cycle 'It will be spring soon'.Ale Carr: "The Four Seasons mostly consists of a good collection of folk tunes"
5 February 2024
What is a cittern, and how does it fit into Vivaldi's masterpiece? We spoke to Ale Carr to find out ...Folk Hero Joins Time and Tides Programme
31 January 2024
Aidan O’Rourke joins the Time and Tides programme in Edinburgh and GlasgowRead and Draw The Great Grumpy Gaboon
30 January 2024
Read the story and watch as Corrina Campbell shows you how to draw The Great Grumpy GaboonBeethoven's Seventh: the apotheosis of the dance?
29 January 2024
How has Wagner's epithet affected the way we approach this favourite Beethoven symphony?Wind instruments in chamber music
22 January 2024
We look at the evolution of wind instruments in chamber music, from guest appearances to fully-fledged wind ensembles.Arrangements, (re)orchestrations and transcriptions: a bluffer's guide
15 January 2024
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