Monday 31 May 2010

flying home from CDG
On the way home again, after an enjoyable couple of days being very well looked after. Everyone at the festival, hotel and theatre was unfailingly helpful and patient, so that all we had to do was try and play a good gig. Catherine Motuz joined us on her way to London to play at the Globe, and took up duties as honorary roadie and multilingual CD sales operative: as a result we sold lots of CDs to our happy audience.

Even my fortepiano neurosis was much less than usual: Alison's verdict about the concert was that there were unusually high levels of "goodwill and listening" on stage.

I'm trying to work out if it's possible to get a fortepiano fitted with a buzzer so that we can play this as an encore.

As I was getting up this morning, I was listening to the beginning of yesterday's Airborne Event. Down at breakfast I found out that musicians in the surrounding rooms had been convinced that someone was practising lots of diminished chords on the piano: in fact it was Satie's Vexations.