So, with a good chunk of the publicity stuff out the way for the first concert... I've started getting some really nice responses. Again, not really the sort of thing that I would have expected, but people are really quite receptive and nice! So, there will be a couple of interviews later in the lead up to the concert.

Anyway, I will have to get started eventually on designing and printing up the program booklet for the concert at some point. It should be easy enough, but I shouldn't leave it too late. I don't really have to do any sort of in depth research for the booklet as I tend to just babble on in the concert instead... I find I don't really read booklets myself, and I find that they can be a bit distracting when the audience are reading the books instead of just listening!

I was all by myself on this last day of the tour... my wife had left earlier on the day before, as she had to get back to teaching in the morning whilst I had one more concert left to play before I could leave. It was more than a little bit sad being alone again... I'm sort of used to it, that is the nature of my work.... but I don't really like it.

Anyway, I took the opportunity to cheer myself up by listening and searching for a whole heap of music to partly flesh out concerts later in the year... 3 more for my ensemble, and then two others that I am guest director for... oh, and a couple of other ones that I'm doing with my wife. Sigh... that is a lot of music to try and find! Plus, some of those concerts have certain restrictions in ensemble size... and a couple have restrictions on player abilities.

But after a half a day of listening and collecting music scores... I think I have the skeletons of all of those concerts sort of worked out. In fact, I probably now have way too much music... so, I will have to cut it back a bit...

But I also have a million ideas and material for concerts that don't exist yet! So much great stuff there... and I want to play and share it all... but I don't currently have all the forces required (and the budget...).... but I have many decades ahead of me (I hope...), during which time... I will eventually get around to as much of it as possible! And there are some really awesome pieces...

... in fact, I think I have also chosen pieces that I would really love to hear at my own funeral... well, I guess I won't be hearing it... but I would love to have others hear it!

So much fun stuff... and some really amazingly beautiful stuff as well. I have a list of titles and pieces and composers from the Baroque to the Classical period for quite a wide variety of ensembles. It will be such a pleasure to work through the list with fellow colleagues...

... anyway, I had better get back to Earth again... that plane is going to leave soon enough, and I shouldn't be in fairy-land for that! But this is always one of the better parts of my job!... Listening and performing... now, if only I can employ someone else to do the other parts.

... oh, and if you appear at my funeral. Expect this to be playing...

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