I really ought to do more sketching; I’d forgotten how much I love it (even if I am rarely – if ever – satisfied with the results). Recently I’ve been sketching the conductor Robin Browning in rehearsal with the de Havilland Philharmonic. It’s really rather wonderful to sit amonst the musicians, surrounded by a bit of Berlioz and Sibelius, sketching along. Robin asked if I could rustle up a sketch of him for his website, but I wanted to do a bit more that that as he’s been so generous in allowing me to work with himself and the orchestra on our concerts for children.
It’s quite hard to draw a conductor as they tend to wave their arms about rather a lot. Anyway, here are some of the sketches. The more fantastical one is, appropriately, inspired by Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. The final concert is at the Weston Auditorium TONIGHT and I hope to have the final image ready to give to Robin after the show!
Meanwhile another concert for children is “in the works”. I’ll post details here as soon as they are confirmed, but it looks like it is going to be extremely exciting!
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