day six.six

just out from a pre-concert talk with Vikram Seth and Alec Roth. We had the rare privilege of hearing Vikram spontaneously reading the complete Six Ages - the poems that he was commissed to write for this evening's The Traveller along with millions of translations based on the ages of man. Really nice comment from the audience about how projects like this, where it is fundamentally about bringing otherwise disparate age groups together (Lichfield Festival Chorus comprises ages 7 to 80+ for instance), have the power to heal communities. Someone else pointed out that both Winterreise and The Traveller were journey's, the former one their own (except for the crow) while the second was with The Companions (we in the chorus). Really nice to have that programming link noticed finally...
Vikram's mum and dad have come up to Lichfield as well, and its really great to see them again...