Tuesday 16 November 2004

Editing continues apace - Kellie is turning out nicely, and copies of The Red Red Rose should be in our hands by 1 December.

Yesterday's mail brought my copy of Michael Rosen's Sad Book, a very simple and eloquent book on bereavement and sadness written, I suppose, for children, with equally eloquent illustrations by Quentin Blake. I like it very much. But then I like things (or music) that make a real emotional point with very simple means. I don't think you have to be complicated to be complex. And I don't think you have to show off to make good art - 'ars est celare artem'and all that.  

Today I must remind myself how Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate goes, as on Thursday I'll be sitting in on the organ with Camerata Salzburg and Barbara Bonney ...