Saturday 20 August 2005

Not many diary entries here for a while: some news to report though. Those nice people at Radio 3 will be recording our first Perth concert for transmission in its Bach week just before Christmas, and next year's concert diary is coming together, including a possible orchestral Kellie bash in October. Back in this year, Alison and I are playing a duo recital of Geminiani, probably with some other Scots and Italian music on 2 October in St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. 

As I type this, Alison and Katherine are both in Oslo en route to Sweden where K will be living and mastering the nyckelharpa for the next year or so. Back here in Glasgow, the sun is shining, a last gasp of summer before the fresher air of autumn. And I still haven't finished editing the Lion CD.

The Edinburgh Festival is in full swing. What I like most about festivals isn't going to the performances, it's the high concentration of musical people in one place, so that if I just sit or stand around in the street, I inevitably get accosted by someone I haven't seen for a while, and ideas are exchanged. It's much more civilised than waiting for the phone to ring.