Sunny Wales

Today I'm in Cardiff where the sun is shining, and I have this lovely view from my hotel room. That's the Millennium centre there on the left, which is a rather splendid building I think.
I'm here rehearsing with the BBC Welsh orchestra, the leader of which just helped me to discover I'm only 6 degrees separated from Louis Spohr, via my teacher Ruggiero Ricci, and Viotti. I'm Playing Spohr's 8th concerto with them, and I feel a new, profound connection with the piece on learning this news.
And apparently Spohr invented the chinrest, so we have a lot to thank him for there.