Good morning, all! I have a day crammed with incident, mostly centered about Herbert's comic opera EILEEN. First thing, though, is a trip to Toyland for the materials I left there yesterday. At 1:30, I have meetings with the conductor David Brophy who's come from Dublin for these preliminary sessions, our producer, and William Hicks who was our pianist for the Herbert recordings of songs and piano-cello music. I'm downloading and listening to two recordings, "Gems of Irish Opera," with excerpts from 19th Century works by Balfe, Wallace, Stanford, and O'Dwyer, since I think these singers will be pushed at us for the EILEEN recording. Following the meeting, dinner with producer and conductor, and after that, I can hopefully return home and watch the final epsodes of LOVE FOR LYDIA, which I'm really enjoying.
As soon as the 2nd disc is downloaded, I'm off to Toyland.