Saturday 4 February 2006

Yesterday - morning: company accounts; afternoon - playing tunes on fiddle and melodica with Greg; evening - Hummel Mass with SCO. 

Today - day off. 

It was very interesting to play in the newly re-opened City Hall in Glasgow last night. They've done a fantastic job turning an drab old civic workhorse into an inviting comfortable modern concert hall. To my ears, there's just a bit of bloom missing off the classic 'shoebox' acoustic that was there before - musicians have to work a bit harder to project. Max Martin played a great Mozart clarinet concerto in the first half though: I blagged a free ticket from the SCO marketing people and snuck in. Nice to sit in a concert when music comes to visit. Even if the most delicate part of Max's slow movement cadenza became a duet with a sweetie wrapper in the balcony. He had the presence of mind to stare the offender out while still playing beautifully.

later
Well, almost a day off. Some movement today towards the eventual release of the Lion CD, and I made a tune to celebrate the birth of Holden Adams Norman. Hooray.