Thursday 13 August 2009

A very busy couple of days here: after an intense flurry of negotiations and budget-wrangling from Andrew, today we went from potentially losing quite a lot of money in the next couple of weeks to coming in confidently on budget. So I'm going to bed rather less stressed than I was when I got up. 

When not writing about potential research, I've been entertained by visiting singers here in my study. Yesterday morning Kathy Fuge came and sat on the windowsill to sightread some John Clerk over my shoulder, and then today Alasdair Roberts popped in to run through his songs for next week. These kind of distractions are always welcome. Tonight I've been transcribing his song The Book of Doves so that we can come up with an arrangement in rehearsal a bit quicker than we otherwise would.