Cuckoo for Pudding

Our performance at the British High Commission Residence yesterday was filled with bird song and cider.  As the guests arrived we set up near the parking lot and the table serving StrongBow, a wonderful hard cider from England and serenaded the arriving guests with music featuring birds from the last 400 years.

The event featured passed appetizers replete with Shakespeare quotes and large banners declaring Britain as a cultural hub.  In attendance were Sir Walcott, the Governor General, ambassadors and High Commissioners from the various embassies here.

A few members of the Globe Theatre performed Shakespeare, and then we performed two renaissance songs honoring the Cuckoo bird and written for Strings and Voice.  These two songs had taken a month of rehearsals to learn and proved much more challenging for the young people than I could have ever imagined.  Dissonant melodies performed without vibrato, each part unique in it's rhythmic components. We had to leave the party much too early and "pudding" was offered thru the van window for the departing entertainers!