Well, you may have raised a virtual eyebrow at my recent silence. I have been closed to the blogosphere due to full time engagement with the real world. Last week I spent several days in Germany - a collaboration between the Scottish Recorder Orchestra and our Dortmund equivalent. We stayed in a beautiful guest house (complete with swimming pool), rehearsed 8 or 9 hours each day and generally bonded together. We each pieced together what we could of each other’s languages, with simultaneous translations by our conductors during rehearsals. On Sunday we performed a wonderful concert in a high school gymnasium. I have played in hundreds of concerts over the years but have rarely been so moved.
OK so this is nothing to do with the profession… but the same motivators apply: cooperation; reaching a common understanding; purposeful activity leading to high motivation and great reward for all concerned. Are you speaking my language? Are we on a wavelength?
Tonight I go to the Scottish screening of ‘Hollywood Librarian’ in Glasgow. Very exciting. I am dressing up. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find a feather boa in rural Fife…
