The Last Night in India
The Ensemble fly back from India tonight having given their final concert and workshop in Delhi last night. Fiona Higham shares her thoughts at the end of the trip:
The wonderful India tour finished on a high note with a wonderful workshop at the British Council Theatre. The kids were just gorgeous – really interested, engaged, and fully participating with us. What a thrill to play for young people like this. Afterwards we were mobbed onstage like celebs.
The British Council in Delhi, where we held our final workshop of the tour
The last concert tonight with KCP4 was a real treat ! For once the auditorium was fully airconditioned, the sound system worked. Even the Steinway Grand piano was pulled back into working shape by a Sikh piano tuner at the very last minute (we had thought we would have to abandon the piano completely, as it was tuned to A 3.38 before the AC was turned on, and seemed a hopeless case). Actually the concert would have been unthinkable without the genius piano playing of Mike Herting, who wrote most of the arrangements, and was the lynchpin of the whole thing, so thank goodness it was salvaged at the eleventh hour.
Working with these musicians has been one of the most enriching experiences of my career, and I am also in awe of my LPO colleagues who all played magnificently, in a genre they are not familiar with.
Thank you!!
Fiona Higham
