Stories in Stone: Portraits of the scientists and luminaries from the Falconer Museum façade EXHIBITION IN THE TOLBOOTH RENT ROOMacross Tolbooth Street from the closed Falconer Museum 10 am – 4 pmSaturday 8th – Sunday 9th OctoberSaturday 15th – Sunday 16th OctoberSaturday 5th – Sunday 6th NovemberFriday 18th November FREE entry
What links Robert Burns, Joseph Haydn, the Scots Musical Museum and Forres! It is well known that Beethoven made settings for Scottish traditional songs under commission from George Thomson, an Edinburgh publisher and folk-song collector. What is less well known is that Thomson also commissioned settings from other continental composers such as Haydn, Weber, Hummel…
Speaker: Dr Matthew Knight., Curator of Prehistory responsible for the Scottish Chalcolithic and Bronze Age collections.