The RSNO is our regular visitor - five subscription concerts a year, and (as my mini reviews have suggested) the orchestra is on fine form right now: next moth they're doing some outreach work in Angus, and I'm hoping to attend some of that, too. Bearing in mind that the Usher Hall, their Edinburgh venue, is undergoing transformation at the moment, and they've had to use the Festival Theatre instead, I'd guess that their figures will come up even more next year when it's reopened. We don't see the BBCSSO at all, although they play a couple of concerts in Perth and Aberdeen: similarly the SCO tends to play St Andrews and the Granite City rather than the City of Discovery,

There's a huge amount of popular culture here, with Folk Festivals popping up every couple of weeks during the summer, but there are small-scale classical festivals too, and most regions and even the counties within in them run Youth Orchestras, and the SNYO (conducted by Vernon Handley, no less) is playing Perth in a couple of weeks' time. Scottish Opera seem to be back on track. All in all, things aren't too bad: the Herald's angel is singing just about the right song....