I don't have much time for dairy entries at the moment, as I'm preparing the material for all three November concerts before we play the first one.  I had a slight setback today while inputting a Kelly quartet to the computer, when I discovered that one movement was missing from the 2nd violin part.  It just wasn't in my NLS photocopies - so I'll have to wait for the library to send me the missing bits before I can finish it off.   

Ricordo gave a great concert in St Andrews in the Square on Saturday. No other venue in Glasgow would have suited them so well in terms of the acoustic, but I did feel sorry for Matthew Wadsworth, who waited for perfect silence before playing Kapsberger's Arpeggiata (a surprisingly modern-sounding theorbo piece) only to have it shattered by a recurrent car alarm a couple of streets away.  Soundproofing wasn't really top of the list of priorities when they did the place up, so I hope the noise isn't too intrusive when it goes out on the radio.

A call from Calum the other day gave us the go-ahead for the Prefab Sprout/Mr McFall's Chamber collaboration, recording the McFalls contribution in mid-January.  So more work on Sibelius for me in December.  Speaking of Sibelius, I had lunch with John Butt yesterday who told me that many years ago he taught the Finn twins who wrote the Sibelius program - and that they called it Sibelius because of their surname! I'd never thought of that - they could have called it Rautavaara of course.  

In the car the other day I heard my Radio Scotland interview go out, and was intrigued to hear how eclectic my accent has become.  There's vowels and consonants from all corners of the British Isles in there now.  It's mostly subconscious, but I do pick up linguistic things when I like the sound of them.  When I was working on and off in Cumbria in the late 80s, it would only take a couple of weeks for 'my' to become not the Glasgow 'ma' but the Northern 'me'.  'Chuck us me coat, will ya?'  I can't say it any more now, I'd have to hear it around me for a while ...