The weeks of punishment that we have endured have been hard to take, and although the fifty shades of grey that we have been experiencing in London have no end in sight, I have to tell you that here in Aix-en-Provence the rain has been beaten into submission. As I write this,...
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The more astute amongst you will note that I have made scant comment in my periodical postcards of the other opera which is being performed here in Aix. Mozart, I hear, was quite a clever chap. He knew how to write a half decent tune for a start, and there are a fair few of...
Bless Maxine Kwok-Adams! For those of you who are not aware, Maxine is our resident fashionista of the 1st violin section. If column inches on a well known social networking site were the only measure of a person's popularity then MK-A would surely rival John Lennon in those...
Project Manager Craig Thorne gives us a progress update... I certainly can't take all the credit for Plan C - I must mention everyone in the Discovery team who pulled together to make it happen: Paul, Elie, Becca and Laura who spent many hours on hold and online with just about...
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The LSO has a new Discovery (education) project as part of our residency with the festival in Aix en Provence involving four players visiting a few times over the next couple of months, and culminating in July when the whole orchestra will go out and give two concerts. We are...
It should have been so easy - a long weekend in Aix en Provence to coach some youth orchestras and lead some schools' workshops in preparation for the Orchestra's visit to our new residency at the Aix Festival in July. It's only 2 hours from Gatwick to Marseille. What could...
