A capacity audience enjoyed the second concert of this season. Steven Osborne displayed his pianist wizardry with Debussy, a Keith Jarrett improvisation and finished with Rachmaninov. That's the good news.
The bad news is that sitting in the balcony with Ishbel and Harriet you could not make out his introductory remarks. The result of this was that in the second half I missed the fact that he played his Jarret improvisation and Rachmaninove piece back to back. It was nearly an hour of wall-to-wall notes and I spent the time wondering when he would finish the first piece and move on to the final one. Oh dear...
More socializing with the Canadian Ladies Luncheon in Stirling. A great gathering as usual with lots of chat and catching up to do.
These are photos of the street running up to the castle with some shots taken from the castle itself... very old and so interesting all in and around the castle.
This last photo is of the Highland Hotel where we had lunch. It's on old school with this interesting clocktower.
Having had lunch mid-day it was a quick turnaround to head to East Kilbride with Iain where we were the guests at this wedding (the ceremony had already taken place and this was dinner) of the daughter of our neighbour. It was an elaborate affair with a 7 course dinner all exquisitely served.
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