Friday 29 May 2009

I've been buried in admin for most of this week, most of it resulting from our AGM on Monday. But over the last day or two I've been able to start work on the details of programming our four Edinburgh Festival concerts in August. With classical or baroque music, concert programming can be very straightforward: you have a pretty good idea what the pieces sound like, and how to go about building a balanced and varied show out of them. But the material in our first couple of concerts isn't like that - it takes a lot of imagination to guess what it might sound like - so the process is much slower and more tiring ...