As part of their commemoration of the Armistice Centenary, the Abbey Choristers, with Guest Soloist Frances McCafferty, our Honorary President, are performing The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins at Dunfermline Abbey at 4.00pm on Saturday 10 November. More details by clicking the image.

Our friends in Edinburgh G&S are very excited to be performing this original Rock Opera,  and hope you will join in this experience with them. The show is full of familiar songs, such as ‘I Don’t How to Love Him’, ‘Hosanna’, Everything’s Alright’ and of course the title song, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. Based on events from the final seven days before Christ’s Crucifixion it explores the relationship between Judas, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

Head for the Churchill Theatre in Edinburgh for 7:30pm on 23–27 October 2018, or the 2:30pm matinée on 27 October. Tickets can be purchased through members, or by following the link to Ticketsource.

After a stunning guitar duo start to the season last Sunday, the Dunfermline Arts Guild 2018–19 series of chamber music concerts – “Music on Sundays” – follows a more traditional path on 11 November 2018, when the Roxburgh String Quartet will be playing works by Haydn, Borodin and Ravel at 7.30pm in Carnegie Hall Studio.

Ask Jean Kennedy or Martin Tarr for a personal recommendation – you can’t beat live music, and it’s great value at £11 a concert, or £45 for the season ticket that buys you the remaining five concerts! Details about the other Sunday evening concerts, which take place at Carnegie through to March, are in the linked brochure – there’s a wealth of musical talent, in a variety of ensembles and styles to suit everyone.

Adam Cuerden invites us to “Eyes and No Eyes or The Art of Seeing” W.S. Gilbert’s hilarious comedy about French nonsense, flirtatious nincompoops and fake news, presented by All in One Productions UK.

No tickets and no payments – just turn up to the Function Room in Revolution Bar, 30 Chambers Street EH1 1HU (opposite the National Museum of Scotland) and enjoy the show at 7:20pm on 12– 17 August.

Click on the image to enlarge it, and you’ll recognise a number of these young ladies … ‘heavy dragooned’, as one might say, into being the acolytes of a certain Reginald Bunthorne. His poetry might be pompous rubbish, but Cat-Like Tread’s production certainly won’t be!

As they put it: “Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience aims its razor-sharp satire at the aesthetic movement (the hipsters of their day) in a tale of romance and the Romantic.” To see what Rae Lamond and her team make of this complicated thing called love, head for Venue 18 (Apex Grassmarket Hotel, EH1 2HS) at 7:30pm any night from 20–26 August. It will be popular, so think about booking in advance.

Our indefatigable orchestral leader Vince Gray invites us to St Margaret’s Memorial RC Church in Dunfermline for another evening of master works from the Baroque at 7:30pm on Friday 24 August.

Details of the programme are on the poster linked to the image and on the Cromlit’s Lilt Facebook page.

A select group from the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (containing some of our Mikado band) will be performing a the overture from Iolanthe plus works by Mendelssohn, Handel, Gourlay, Skempton and young composers from the KOS Schools Composition Project, 7.30pm Tuesday 1 May at the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. Tickets (£5) will be available on the door.

Further details on the poster linked to the image.