To have been able to call

upon artists for

whom you have great admiration,

to play such

important roles in the making

of return to the center of the earth

has beeen a very speacil privilege

To work again with the london symphony orchestra,

under the trememendous guidance of david snell,

was an honour difficult to put into words,

and my longstanding association

with guy protheroe and the english chamber

choir is just as exciting for me now as it was

when we first met twenty-five years ago