The year 2020 has wrought radical change. We performers are truly in the midst, wondering what our world “after-the-pandemic” will look like. I love how artists from around the world are working together in virtual ways to share hope, beauty, and comfort to vast audiences. Perhaps our audiences include more people than ever before? Have you ever imagined being part of the “eternal” or “cosmic" audience, being one speck in a great cloud of music from the beginning of time? “Be

NORMAL SERVICE INTERRUPTED! As I write to you from southern England the sun is shining and a gentle breeze wafts across a blue sky, and I am having coffee in my garden rather than rehearsing Debussy ‘Images’. I have been the principal bassist with the Bournemouth Symphony for some 34 years but last 17th March my existence came to an abrupt halt. Having prepared Strauss’ mighty opera ‘Elektra’ to the point of dress rehearsal we were then suddenly sent home. Up until that poin