Tonight we repeated last Saturday's Christmas Praise concert, this time at All Soul's Church in Langham Place. Again we started with the Saint Saens Organ Symphony, and as we were playing this it struck me that this is about as much fun as it is possible to have, certainly for a heavy brass player like myself there is not much that I can do that is more fun (these days with or without my clothes on).
With Graham Kendrick as a guest of the Orchestra it also struck me just how special the All Soul's Orchestra is, our guests are great stars in their field but they just join in with the rest of us, somehow we have a unity of purpose that I don't quite find with any other ensemble I play with. Don't get me wrong I get an enormous amount of pleasure from all my playing, but there is just something a bit special about ASO. I think this is illustrated by the fact that I went for a quick pint after the concert with my friend who leads the second violins. In most orchestras there is no way that a violin would even talk to a tuba player, ( "Fiddle! fiddle indeed, you will kindly address us as violins!")
Did I mention that Graham Kendrick was our guest? tomorrow morning I will be playing for a service at a local Methodist Church and we will be singing "Shine Jesus Shine" and it will be really difficult not to keep thinking "last night I was singing this standing next to Graham Kendrick" (who wrote it) I still might just mention it to the rest of the worship band though.............
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