Comng home
Unpacked and watching the Trooping - good old Britain. It's hotter here than in Botswana and Zambia. Good flights with SAA apart from the muddleup on the flight home. As it happens I needed 2 seats so I could elevate my leg. I grazed it getting off the safari vehicle so had to have treatment at the Avani hotel.
We met a lady from Florida who said she normally came to London every year but not this year. Understandable but sad.The LMP concert attracted a good audience no doubt attracted by community choir singing Adiemus. Ken Burton conducted Vivaldi Gloria. Good for all to hear Poulenc and Mozart. The ensemble in the organ concerto was remarkable.
Hot and trains replaced by buses so going whole way on tfl buses. We sang Day by day by How and I played Ronald Watson Elegy in memoriam Herbert Howells and June Nixon improvisation on Adoro Te. She signed my copy when I played it at Melbourne cathedral. Happy 50th birthday to her.
Super concert by the London Mozart Players at St John Upper Norwood. Packed audience. Shostakovich Chamber symphony movingly played and the young Croydon musicians did really well. Haydn cello concerto played by the wonderful Sheku Kanneh-Mason who is a joy to watch and produces a rich tone with much humour. Mozart Haffner - what joy!
Delightful dinner at Joanna's with Dennis Woodhouse Ann-Marie Woodhouse and the adorable Henry who has plenty of chat.
Catriona Morrison from Scotland wins Cardiff singer of the world and shares the song prize with Mongolian baritone. Her Purcell went right the heart. Louise Alder from England won the audience prize. What a final - liked the American baritone.
Monday Only 2 and a half hour wait at Beckenham for leg to be dressed and it is healing well. Deserved an ice cream during the hot walk across the park back to the car. Saw doctor this afternoon about mole on arm and it will be removed.
We met a lady from Florida who said she normally came to London every year but not this year. Understandable but sad.The LMP concert attracted a good audience no doubt attracted by community choir singing Adiemus. Ken Burton conducted Vivaldi Gloria. Good for all to hear Poulenc and Mozart. The ensemble in the organ concerto was remarkable.
Hot and trains replaced by buses so going whole way on tfl buses. We sang Day by day by How and I played Ronald Watson Elegy in memoriam Herbert Howells and June Nixon improvisation on Adoro Te. She signed my copy when I played it at Melbourne cathedral. Happy 50th birthday to her.
Super concert by the London Mozart Players at St John Upper Norwood. Packed audience. Shostakovich Chamber symphony movingly played and the young Croydon musicians did really well. Haydn cello concerto played by the wonderful Sheku Kanneh-Mason who is a joy to watch and produces a rich tone with much humour. Mozart Haffner - what joy!
Delightful dinner at Joanna's with Dennis Woodhouse Ann-Marie Woodhouse and the adorable Henry who has plenty of chat.
Catriona Morrison from Scotland wins Cardiff singer of the world and shares the song prize with Mongolian baritone. Her Purcell went right the heart. Louise Alder from England won the audience prize. What a final - liked the American baritone.
Monday Only 2 and a half hour wait at Beckenham for leg to be dressed and it is healing well. Deserved an ice cream during the hot walk across the park back to the car. Saw doctor this afternoon about mole on arm and it will be removed.
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