David and Stefan's Third Great London Adventure

Steve Reich. Philip Glass. Stefan Inglis. David Hately. All in one room spanning two evenings. Fun.

London. Minimalism. Microphones swinging. Organs playing.

Tube. Minimalism. Train. Minimalism. Life. Music. Reich. Glass. Inglis. Hately. Music. Pleasure. Intellectual stimulation.

Sounds awesome. Even in. Sentence fragments.

Especially. In.

Very good, it was. Especially the second concert which was Glass' "Music With Changing Parts". The Reich concert was also interesting, but value for money was questioned.

More comments later, when I have the time and inclination to sit in a hot room in front of a computer.

Looking forward to hearing more!

Looks like I'm going to be in London next summer. My church choir is going to be in residence at Westminster Abbey again (yay!), so I'll be there for about 9 days in August, 2006. I can hardly wait. It's been 5 years since I was there last.

Maybe I can meet some of you of the British contingent and we can go for a pint or two! 'Twould be lovely.

YES! That would be excellent. Let me know more nearer the time!

August is also the time of the Proms concerts. Would you have time to sample them? (Concert programmes allowing, of course. You nor I have exactly the same taste in music, do we? *grin*)

August is also the time of the Proms concerts. Would you have time to sample them?

Aside from a rehearsal and an Evensong each day, and a couple of visits to friends in town and down near Winchester (probably on the Wednesday off), my time is my own! So yes indeed.

You nor I have exactly the same taste in music, do we? *grin*)

Maybe not. But I've always been open to trying new things, and I'm more open minded and appreciative than I once was.

Excellent. I shall keep August fairly free. Any bookings in August are likely to be in London anyway. (August is a time for me to go to concerts and generally have holiday type time off.)

Of course, I shall hear your choir perform. That would be most look-forwardable to.

Lovely! I'd like to hope you won't be sorry...not many choirs get invited back to the Abbey - we've already been in residence once in 1999. So I'd like to believe that for an American choir, anyway, we'll acquit ourselves satisfactorily.

Just betwixt you, me and Big Ben, the Abbey is a squirrelly place to sing, maybe because the quire is in the nave, rather than in the apse where it belongs. I'd almost rather sing in York Minster or Durham Cathedral. Haven't we had this conversation?