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19 August 2019
Festival Music: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, Usher Hall, five stars
Festival Music
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Keith Bruce
five stars
AS the composer himself has said, the survey of his music that the Edinburgh
International festival has presented to mark the 60th birthday of Sir James MacMillan
has covered a lot of varied ground and involved a great many musicians.
With the RSNO having opened the series, in partnership with Edinburgh Festival
Chorus, a week previously, Saturday saw Scotland’s other two professional
orchestras in the Usher Hall playing music that had mostly not been heard in Scotland
before.
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