What a day! We were blessed with the most glorious weather…clear skies, sunshine, and a light easterly breeze to keep us cool, to make petals dance, and to prompt our magnificent musicians to peg their sheet music to their stands as the rhapsodic notes they played spilled out across the garden.
A huge thank you to cellists Teije Hylkema, Andrew Hines, Elizabeth Neville and Minah Choe for playing such a delightful repertoire, from the moving to the purely joyful. Here,Teija introduces a piece to transport us to another realm. And of course, I also send a big thank you to Leta Keens, the Silo Collective, for inspiring the musicians to join us for such an intimate Chamber Music Concert at Glenmore.
Anna Simmamora of The Floury Baker produced a veritable spring feast, with a bounty of fresh produce from our good friend Martin Boetz at The Cooks Co-Op.
From globe artichokes to baby beet, zucchinis with their beautiful yellow flowers, to new potatoes and asparagus. Hefty platters of colourful veg and a pretty leaf salad topped with nasturtium petals from the garden here, accompanied succulent butterflied leg of lamb, while the rhubarb & strawberry galette that followed was, well….totally scrumptious!
Of course, as always seems to be the way….I didn’t take anywhere near enough photos on the day….there’s always just so much to do and so many lovely guests to talk to! So if you would like to experience the atmosphere of a Chamber Music Concert at Glenmore in 2015, do watch this space and pounce when you see my announcement in a newsletter because we will be doing it all again next year!