2 orchestras

The Archdeacon Paul Wright led family eucharist - one child out of 18 present! He gave an excellent sermon on his job and resolving disputes in parishes. Hope John was listening! Bill raised the question of the Big lunch clash with first organ recital next June. I did raise this initially and did not get an answer. I played Darke on Brother James air, Andrew Moore and Karg-Elert Nun danket for our ruby wedding. We did sing The summons. Straight to St Paul's cathedral via Waterloo for Graham Usher's talk on Places of enchantment finding God in nature. He was vicar of Hexham and is now Bishop of Dudley. He spoke a lot about mountains. I commented that Peter would have whipped out his Blackberry at the Transfiguration as we live in a recording age. I also said the liturgy needs to convey something of the grandeur of God and he advocated more silence. It was most interesting.  Of all the wonderful places I have seen very seldom was I alone. The 3.30 prom featured the Qatar philharmonic conducted by Han-Na Chung. She had some wierd tempi in Tchaikovsky 5. Rachmaninov 2 well played by Denis Matsuev. The opening piece was Sunrise by Bahzad Ranjbaran. To talk about the Cleveland and saw John East. The Cleveland have a precise silky sound and we heard Brahms 1 and flute concerto by Jorg Widmann. Saw the Strauss encore on TV.