I have bitten the bullet and made a decision this week to attend the Banff International String Quartet Competition with my big sis Liz from Cambridge in August/September. This is the event that finally brought my sister from England after being here 38 years! I thought 6 days of 10 quartets a day was going to be cultural overload but somehow every day brought something new, and I was even getting up early to line up for a place at the 9am pre-concert lectures! Yeah, me!
Although I will just be finished my gruelling 4-5 weeks of daily radiation, I think this will give me something inspiring to focus on. After all, these string quartets are playing their guts out around the world, getting ready for the concerts. It will be great to reconnect with all the fine people we met last time.
Thanks to Holly and Rob for urging me on - and Ted too of course, but it IS too much culture for him and he won't be joining us.
Now if we could just convince Liz's husband Clive to fly over here and join us too....
See BISQC details at: http://www.banffcentre.ca/bisqc/
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