Hello, one and all.
Ali Stephens has just informed me --much to my pleasant surprise, I might add-- that she just gave the UK premiere of my Diferencias at a concert for the Dean and Chadlington Festival in the Cotswolds, near Oxford.
Other than Ali herself, the artists involved in this festival include guitarist Craig Ogden and... *drumroll, please*... Louis de Bernieres (of Captain Corelli fame) offering poetry readings. What dignified company, indeed!
To make the feat DOUBLY impressive, Amazing Ali played my (admittedly quite difficult) piece on her 1985 Pecoraro octave mandolin (!) We common mortals, in the meanwhile, must struggle with the troublesome cross-pickings the Deranged Composer wrote in this score, even on the dainty, litte, "regular" mandolin...
I thank and congratulate Ali warmly on what I am absolutely sure was a marvellous performance.
Brava, bravissima!
Victor
It is not man that lives but his work. (Ioannis Kapodistrias)
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