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Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles is excited by his return to the capital as head of one of the country's leading orchestras, but is bewildered by the lack of ticket sales, he tells Tim Cornwell
IT IS more than 30 years since a former Edinburgh choirboy named Donald Runnicles left the capital to pursue a life in music on the world stage. Now a leading international conductor, veteran of orchestras, and particularly operas, from New York to Salzburg, he returns to the Usher Hall tomorrow night, where he sang as a schoolboy 1965.See the full content of this document
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Although this should be a moment of triumph - his first appearance in the capital as head of one of Scotland's leading orchestras - he is wondering what kind of reception awaits him.
"You ask what it is like to be coming back? I'm bewildered," the 54-year-old conductor said when we spoke on Thursday, hours before he was due to take the stage in Glasgow.The newly appointed chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - which he counts as one of the finest in the world - was clearly disappointed that the...See the full content of this document
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