Home in Brussels

Maggie and I had a nice relaxing morning, with some walking, a boardwalk beer, a swim, and then a tidy of the apartment.  We had someone from the festival take us to the airport and there were no difficulties.  The flight was pretty crowded with families with young children, and it was extremely noisy, so we didn't manage to snooze much... We made it to Brussels airport by around 23h30, and miraculously our neighbours Christophe and Isabelle came and picked us up...  we learned that they also had fed a pesto dinner to both boys tonight.  What wonderful neighbours! 

Malcolm was helping Christophe on a cabinetry installation job all day, and so he must have been pretty tired.  Duncan at least woke up and gave us a hearty hello when we arrived home, but Malcolm is completely out.  (The dogs and cats are also very glad to see us back).  Maybe he'll wake up in the morning early enough to say hi as I barrel out the door to the next rehearsal?

I have to go to bed as I have to be in Leuven, but fortunately not until 12h30, so I have some time to warm up and look over my parts again.

Very quickly, I am sharing a few photos of the concert last night, the ones that I'm in at least... they are in reverse order but I am too tired to move them around.

curtain calls

Pilate questioning Jesus

bass aria "Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen" (hurry, you anguished souls)

with the now crucified and dying Jesus

The mob demanding that Pilate crucify Jesus

The view from the auditorium of the stage

with the blackout partition open so that you can see out onto the bay