Tchaikovsky

Listening to my boxed set of Tchaikovsky Symphonies - conductor Claudio Abbado with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - an excellent set of recordings, highly recommended. I have made some progress with the novel today - it's easy to convice yourself that you are blocked but there are many tricks of the trade to keep the energy going, one being simply to generate new ideas in a file marked 'plot and other ideas'. I am playing bridge all day Monday in an event being held in a hotel in central London - a real challenge! Trying to stay positive with everything. I have a meeting with Pianist friend Louis Alvanis on Wednesday to run through the repertoire for the forthcoming Piano CD of my compositions. My computer is working again now but I have lost my address book. I have to hope people will write to me!