20th March 2019
Gavin Bryars meets us at St Pancras to board the Eurostar to Dunkirk. We are travelling to perform BIPED and BeachBirds with CNDC. He tells us that he finished his latest choral piece at 8.30 this morning. It is for a French choir based in Toulouse, and a percussion group from Lyon. Each member of the choir will play an antique cymbal and a triangle. The percussion group only play bowed percussion. He would have finished it last night but felt a little tired around 2 am and so set his alarm for 6.30 am to finish the final page before leaving. He now only has the Edouard Lock ballet to write before leaving for his summer ‘break’, during which he will work on a string quartet. He feels this is light work.