Let your fingers do the talking

FAR from instructing their patrons to turn off their mobile phones, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is inviting enthusiastic users of social media to get busy when it throws open the doors of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall this evening.

Tonight, supporters will witness the final rehearsal for music director Peter Oundjian’s last concerts of the season, featuring Mahler’s epic Symphony No8, the Symphony of a Thousand.

With eight soloists, each from a different Commonwealth nation, alongside the RSNO Chorus and the RSNO Junior Chorus, there will be plenty to tweet about on Twitter (@rsno, @rsnochorus, #Mahler).

Alternatively you will be able to tag it on Facebook if that is the sort of thing that winds your metronome.

The rehearsal runs for 6.30pm to 7.45pm tonight and the concerts are at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on Friday and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday at 7.30pm