Edinburgh Royal Choral Union is to open its 2017-18 season with an Armistice Day concert.
Dona Nobis Pacem and Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice stand as bookends to the Second World War.
Vaughan Williams set the words of Walt Whitman in a "great, theatrical plea for peace and tolerance as the threat of war grew ever stronger in 1936."
The concert also includes music associated with the first world war: from Sir Henry Walford Davies’s A Short Requiem (1915), and George Butterworth’s famous setting of AE Houseman’s A Shropshire Lad, written in 1911 and 1912.
The concert takes place on November 11 at Greyfriards Kirk, Edinburgh.
www.ercu.org.uk
Edinburgh-based duo Worbey & Farrell are to play their versions of famous music to the Usher Hall.
They will be playing the venue on November 30.
The duo have performed with their "barnstorming blend of sparky humour" in 150 countries and have proved to be popular on video streaming service YouTube.
The show is directed by Geoffrey Durham.
www.worbeyandfarrell.com
This November and December, Glasgow Film Theatre is to take part in the BFI’s national Thriller season.
Alongside classics from the genre, this season will feature a selection of titles from States of Danger & Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s.
The films included in the screenings take in The Vanishing, Z, North by Northwest, In the Cut, The Silence of the Lambs, The Day of the Jackal, Mother, Man on the Roof, The Flight, and The Deputy.
HOME Manchester has curated a "season of European thrillers that expose the political tensions that reverberated across Europe in the 1970s."
Tickets are on sale now.
www.glasgowfilm.org
The Sonica festival in Glasgow is to host the UK premiere of Cryptic’s Shorelines (Tramway, 1 and2 November).
It is a collaboration of talents including composer Oliver Coates (UK), the all-female Ragazze Quartet (the Netherlands), artist and designer Christophe Coppens (Belgium) and Glasgow director Josh Armstrong (UK).
Coming from its world premiere at the prestigious Operadagen festival in Rotterdam, Shorelines has been inspired by the North Sea Flood of 1953, which left the Netherlands devastated and also took many lives in the UK and Belgium.
sonic-a.co.uk
This November will see a new exhibition by Alexander Millar, a self-taught Scottish artist who is inspired by Britain’s industrial landscapes and the traditional working men and women of the past.
His new collection is on show at Aberdeen’s Chester Hotel in Queen’s Road.
There will be an opportunity to meet the artist on Monday 13 November from 5.30pm.
The exhibition runs from November 13-15 and is open daily from 11am to 7pm.
https://alexandermillar.com/
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