NewYVC Unite

Just back from a week in London and East London with friend and colleague Jane Wheeler.  Rehearsals of my LIVING SONG with 500 children (actually two clusters of 250 each) in preparation for the BIG NewYVC United concert this summer at Royal Festival Hall were great fun, and the day-long immersion with 25 conductors for the Choral Music Experience (CME) was fantastic.  Vegetable thali at Taste of India, the Hockney exhibit at the Tate Britain and Rauschenberg at the Tate Modern, choral evensong at St. Paul's followed by a Bach organ recital, a reunion with Linda Gregerson over cappuccino after 40 years, flowering cherry trees and daffodils, many tube rides, and the wonderful Borough market were some of the highlights of the week (the huge variety of sauteed forest mushrooms on toast the next morning brought us great joy).  Thank you, Jane, for the invitation, friendship and kind hospitality.