There were three recording sessions in all which took place in late July and early August. We met at St. Lawrence Hall on King St. in the historic St. Lawrence Market district of downtown Toronto. These evenings were long ones. Glenn tended to chop things up into segments and he'd want to do and re-do each part with different tempos and articulations. He'd want to look at it from many different perspectives. "None of the takes were anything approaching quick, you understand ? they were all variations of slow and slower. Glenn had often said that the music he liked the best, he liked to hear played very slowly. In fact, he told us before we started that this was going to be the slowest Siegfried Idyll on record. He actually exceeded in length of time his own piano transcription of that same piece." (This was quite true. The recording of his piano transcription of the Siegfried Idyll , done in 1973, ran for 23 minutes 31 seconds while the ensemble version was 24 minutes and 28 seconds.) "The speed was so slow that the string bowings needed to be re-thought and the winds had to breathe in places we never had to breathe before because we couldn't last that long on single breaths! But, you know, he was a consummate musician. As I've said and written elsewhere, the music making was of the highest quality and the experience was certainly one of the high points of my life. Every