I never intended to become a runner – however, having managed to complete a marathon, there were soon some goals and ambitions – most of which remain unfulfilled I have to admit – especially the fact that I never did make it to the Honolulu Marathon.
West Linton Camps
I was, I guess, rather late on the uptake for participating in music camps, but that didn’t stop me from having some great times there.
Mozart In Rothesay
Well – he wasn’t there exactly – this is a tale of playing some music of Mozart (and Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak – and Strauss as an encore) in Rothesay.
Castle Toward
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)