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Music For 8 Winds – 2024

Harmonie at the Operatic Table – Music For 8 Winds In eighteenth-century Europe, the finest Harmonie wind players of the age entertained aristocrats as they dined in their finery, performed to townsfolk on the street or played for operatic noblemen who dared to invite the dead to supper….. Join McOpera …

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A Song for Haddo – 2020

A Song for Haddo 2020 – Haddo Arts Festival Fables and Foibles – A Song for Haddo 2020 Songs by Moira Morrison & Instrumental Music by Peter Kemp A Song for Haddo is back but not as we know it… Watch the full performance at the Haddo Arts Festival 2020 …

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A Song for Haddo – 2019

A Song for Haddo 2019 – Haddo Arts Festival On October 10th, 143 local Aberdeenshire children, young people and instrumental tutors will perform side-by-side with our professional McOpera musicians as part of the 2019 Haddo Arts Festival. The song-cycle A Song for Haddo – Witnesses of Time was created for …

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Friday Afternoons – Song for Flight – 2019

Friday Afternoons – A Song for Flight marks the culmination of a wide ranging inter-generational project for over 120 primary school children and high school instrumentalists, and is the third in a series of outreach projects for Milngavie Music Club. Focusing on the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries, …

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A Song for Haddo – 2018

A Song for Haddo 2018 – Haddo Arts Festival In an exciting development of last year’s outreach project at the Haddo Arts Festival, McOpera Outreach and conductor Andrew McTaggart returned to work with over 100 children drawn from 6 local primary schools, performing a selection of songs composed for Snape …

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20 Seaward Street – Rehearsed Singing – 2018

20 Seaward Street is an unconventional fusion of opera, musical hall and jazz performed in Glaswegian vernacular by an international cast exploring what it is to be migrant. Set in 1960 we follow the fate of one family as they prepare to migrate from Tradeston to start a new life …

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East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2018

The concert given by Jess Gillam on Friday 8th December at Cairns Church in Milngavie marked the launch of the McOpera Outreach East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2018 programme, devised for Milngavie Music Club and continuing the work in the community begun last April with The Tales’ Project. Prior to the …

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East Dunbartonshire Young Musicians 2018

An exciting new programme for talented young musicians living in East Dunbartonshire to rehearse and play with professional musicians, and learn first hand about living and working in the music profession. For more information and application forms, contact suebaxendale.mcopera@gmail.com. Deadline for entries extended to Tuesday November 14th 2018

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October 2017 – A Song for Haddo @ Haddo Arts Festival

Based on the song cycle, Friday Afternoons by Benjamin Britten, A Song for Haddo is the exciting culmination of this year’s outreach programme at the Haddo Arts Festivalin conjunction with Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland (McOpera Outreach) and Snape Maltings. Moira Morrison, our McOpera composer and vocal animateur, is currently working with …

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April 2017 – Milngavie Tales & Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale

The Tales Project: Concert on Friday April 21st, with community Pop-up Performances on Monday April 17th. Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale and Milngavie Tales, by Peter Kemp Part of the Milngavie Music Club International Concert Series @ Cairns Church, Milngavie, G62 8AW- www.milngaviemusic.org                     McOpera Ensemble, with conductor Sian …