The acoustics in churches are usually pretty damn good - apparently there's quite a lot of music in churches even when there's no lunchtime recitals - something that Kit, one of today's musicians, pointed out when he declared what a pleasure it was to travel to a concert on the tube carrying only musical instruments and no sound equipment. The instruments in question were violin (Kit), accordian (Eddy), guitar (Martin) and contrabasse (Matt). Together these exceptional musicians are called Cordes En Bleues. They were bought together by "a shared love of the music of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and 30's swinging Paris". Whilst I wouldn't go so far as to say that today's venue, St James's Piccadilly, was swinging, the audience, made up largely of local workers, shoppers and tourists, seemed more relaxed and open to show their appreciation than the somewhat more reverential appreciation generally shown by the classical recital audiences.
August 7th - Day 111
The acoustics in churches are usually pretty damn good - apparently there's quite a lot of music in churches even when there's no lunchtime recitals - something that Kit, one of today's musicians, pointed out when he declared what a pleasure it was to travel to a concert on the tube carrying only musical instruments and no sound equipment. The instruments in question were violin (Kit), accordian (Eddy), guitar (Martin) and contrabasse (Matt). Together these exceptional musicians are called Cordes En Bleues. They were bought together by "a shared love of the music of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and 30's swinging Paris". Whilst I wouldn't go so far as to say that today's venue, St James's Piccadilly, was swinging, the audience, made up largely of local workers, shoppers and tourists, seemed more relaxed and open to show their appreciation than the somewhat more reverential appreciation generally shown by the classical recital audiences.
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