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A Summer Serenade

Summer Tour 2024

Programme

  • GIPPS

    Seascape

  • FRANÇAIX

    Quatuor

  • CAPLET

    Suite Persane

  • McCRAE

    Trio

  • BIRD

    Serenade Op 40

Online sales for Dunoon on 26 June will close an hour before the performance, however tickets will be available to purchase on the door.

SCO Wind Soloists

Join the SCO Wind Soloists on a musical cruise to shores far and wide.

After setting across the Channel with Gipps’ warmly evocative Seascape, Gallic wit awaits us in the form of Françaix’s delicious Quartet. There’s a touch of Middle Eastern exoticism from Caplet’s Persian Suite and a reminder of home in the Trio by Kevin McCrae (a former SCO cellist) before we land on the eastern shore of the States for Bird’s joyous Serenade, a true gem of the wind music repertoire.

Kindly supported by Eriadne & George Mackintosh and Claire & Anthony Tait.

Local box offices

Dunoon: in person from the Burgh Hall (195 Argyll Street, Dunoon PA23 7DD).

Killin: in person from MacGregor's Community Hub (Main Street, Killin FK21 8UJ).

Dollar: in person from The Sorting Office (50 Bridge St, Dollar FK14 7DG).

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