Thanks for the update, Mark, as a 4th year veteran of the bass section in a community chorus in Toronto (Common Thread) I can appreciate how much effort goes into this. Isabel, our paid conductor, works 3 other "part-time jobs" (conducting and teaching) and has a wonderfully supportive spouse or she'd be hard-pressed to make ends meet. But any professional choral conductor is used to that sort of thing. I'm sure Gareth is managing somehow to juggle some obligations and employments!