The Soldier’s Tale

Inverness Stravinsky Players

Wednesday 27th March, 8pm

Inverness Town House

Tickets £8/£5(students, under 18), available from Leakey’s Bookshop,

The Music Station and can be reserved on 01463 224564. Tickets also

available on the door but advance booking is recommended due to

limited capacity in the Town House.

This scintillating tale from a collaboration between composer Igor

Stravinsky and writer Charles Ramuz will be one of the musical and

dramatic highlights of Spring 2013. A naive soldier gives his violin

to the Devil in exchange for a book which tells him how to become

immeasurably rich. A story follows which is thought-provoking,

moving, and at times very funny; the themes of which are as relevant

now as they were at the first performance in 1918. Accompanying and

often taking over from the story is some of Stravinsky’s wittiest,

most sparkling, accessible music performed by a newly founded seven

piece ensemble, The Inverness Stravinsky Players, conducted by Tomas

Leakey. The director and narrator is John McGeoch, of Arts in Motion.

This performance comes on the back of an educational outreach project

where the work has been taken into four local schools and pupils given

the chance to experience it free of charge.

Source: Tomas Leakey