In July 1971 I attended the Glasgow Schools’ 1st Orchestra summer ‘camp’. I guess that ‘camp’ is not really the right word as we spent the time at Castle Toward – certainly not the usual notion of what a camp looks like. This was my second orchestral summer residential course following on from the 2nd Orchestra’s time in Rothesay the previous year and coming at the end of my schooling as it did I certainly envisaged it would be my last. (although things didn’t actually turn out that way)