I’m now in that odd limbo for a composer between having finished a major work and its first performance.  I sent the full score of the Concerto to my publishers in the middle of July, having delivered the final section to Owen and Olly on the 2 July (on time!).  I did various proof corrections by email from Canada where I was resident at the Banff Centre in August, but that’s now all complete, the conductor has the full score and the BBC Symphony Orchestra has the parts.  I now wait until the first rehearsal on 19th October and hope that everyone else is quietly getting on with it.  No one has screamed yet!

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