Itās an extraordinary world. Not so very long ago I could never have imagined Iād be keeping company – while seated right here in the UK – with piano improvisation teachers based in both South Africa and the Netherlands. Thereās so much potential for good in a communicating and connected world. My friend in South Africa teaches a form of improvised āauthentic singingā alongside a piano improvisation that relies a great deal upon practised listening. Singing and playing today enabled at least some outlet for my frustrated sense that asking innocents fleeing from war zones to jump through well-nigh-impossible administrative hoops is – whichever way one looks at it – just fundamentally wrong. When our fears and āwhat ifsā purport to trump the various degrees of hell from which millions are fleeing weāre in desperate need of some new improvisations. We need to be singing entirely new songs for our fellows from Ukraine – just as, one day, we might need them to sing some for us ā¦

ā¦it is far too reminiscent of past atrocities – though now it is in color and real time. There must be a better way, though arguably I think many in power struggle to find itā¦xx
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⦠thank you for the love and friendship that, personified in you, points to a ābetter wayā š¤šš±xxx
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You are far too generous with your praise and faith in me, my dear friendā¦xx
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