KYLE EASTWOOD

HE first rode onto our screens as Rowdy Yates in the legendary TV show Rawhide.

And you would have expected the son of Hollywood movie icon Clint Eastwood to have followed the acting trail.

But the movie megastar’s eldest son Kyle decided from an early age that the acting life was not for him.

Although he majored in film studies at university and grew up around film sets with his dad, music has always been his first love.

Kyle who is now firmly established on the global jazz circuit returns to The Concorde, Eastleigh on Tuesday with his band and smooth jazz.

Kyle, who is also a composer and a music arranger, plays upright, acoustic and double bass as well as bass guitar.

He has written music scores for his father’s films. They include Mystic River – his first major film score – which went on to pick up two Oscars. Not a bad start for a young composer.

PETER DONOHOE

RUSSIAN music is at the heart of distinguished pianist Peter Donohoe’s welcome return to Turner Sims on Tuesday.

Prokofiev’s sonata is the last of his three so-called ‘war’ sonatas.

Whilst it has allusions to the horror of war its moments of lyricism reflect the inspiration for the work and its dedicatee, Prokofiev’s future wife Mira.

Inspiration of a different kind infuses the other works in the programme. Scriabin gave his seventh sonata the nickname ‘White Mass’, depicting bells, clouds, perfume and a ‘fountain of fire’.

His second sonata, which opens the programme, takes its inspiration from nature, whilst Liszt’s work, from which we hear the first six movements depicts in music the composer’s travels across Europe.