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Fantastic!

That’s funny, the HK Phil also performed (among other things) Pelleas et Melisande a few weeks ago too. It’s great to have live music again… Jaap van Zweden isn’t here but the band he’s trained up over the years is as good as ever and a young Austrian conductor named Christoph Koncz impressed, as did HK-born pianist Chiyan Wong in the Ravel piano concerto - I’m hard to please, especially with the crowd-pleasers, and he was really rather fine.

Fond memories of the Barbican - generally terrible acoustics (albeit nothing is as bad as the Royal Albert Hall, aka the Really Awful Hall, even with all the various improvements) but thinking of the Bach Collegium Japan there under Maasaki Suzkuki a number of years ago still brings a smile to my face. Let’s face it, London doesn’t have any large venues with good acoustics - I love the RFH but listening is really only ok upstairs; that said, there are some really lovely smaller halls (Wigmore, SJSS…).

Now, as for that watch…I think it needs a tour of concert halls round the world. I understand that the live sound waves tune into the balance spring and enhance timekeeping through a mysterious resonance effect. So, just ship it to me for a few months and, purely as a disinterested assistant you understand, I’ll make sure it gets some good music.

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E.

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