Wednesday 7 August 2002

I'm sitting under the stars in the 'Leonard Bernstein Artists' Pavilion' at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, while the SCO finish their concert with Schubert's 3rd Symphony, and I'm trying to write the copy for our Concerto Caledonia flyers. I'll write about yesterday later, but the most remarkable thing about today has been the founding of the Nude Harmonium Players' Society, an august institution which may well come to nothing. Earlier on, as the outdoor part of the audience were gathering on the grass (the Seiji Ozawa hall has a removable back wall) Peter Evans dared me to play Onward Christian Soldiers at full blast on the harmonium to entertain them. It had no effect whatsoever. Now if I'd done it Terry Jones style ...