This week there is some real news to report, rather than some vacuous musing; something more concrete than ethereal.

Although……………

Julie and Roger Dawson spent some time in the US following the Carnegie Hall concert, including going to some wonderful events at the famous Tanglewood Festival.

Then it was across the Atlantic to another music festival, this time in South Wales, the Gower Festival – not at all the sublime to the ridiculous, but certainly not so extensive or so well known, yet nonetheless fascinating.  The modest community of the Gower Peninsula, just west of Swansea, puts on a series of fifteen concerts on consecutive evenings at the start of July, in local churches and community halls, buildings dating from 12th to 20th century, and seating audiences of from 50 to 1200.

Imagine Julie and Roger’s surprise when, over the interval refreshments at one of the more modest venues, they found themselves chatting to none other than Sir Karl Jenkins and his wife Lady Jenkins.  Sir Karl had not only sponsored the concert, but the performers were the winners of the Sir Karl Jenkins Music Prize for 2017.

When Julie mentioned that she is to be in the massed choirs at the Royal Albert Hall next week to sing Jenkins’ Gloria, Sir Karl said he would be there, and that she was to be sure to “pop by”.  She wonders whether – and this is where this week’s musing comes in – she should invite him to Sydney to hear the Manly Warringah Choir giving voice to one of his splendid works.

Now there’s a thought!