I was an undergraduate in Edinburgh way back in the late 1970s. Among the reasons I went there was the opportunity to study composition with Kenneth Leighton at the university’s Reid School, and the amazing concerts and other performances at the Edinburgh International Festival. It felt odd (and delightful) then to have the same Festival mark my 60th birthday last month.
There was a whirlwind of rehearsals, performances, book-signings, pre-concert talks, earnest panel discussions about the arts, and glorious lunch and dinner dates with John Studzinski’s Genesis Foundation.
