Thank you very much for those kind words.

"Modal contrast" goes a little over my head; I understand keys but not modes and I'm hazy on chords (I can work out dots or ABC a note at a time) but I'd be interested to see what you mean. I can send my email in a PM but I don't want to post it out here.

Yes, that spring is ever flowing. Anyone may stoop to drink, but it's quite a trick to carry some away. Ideas are dime-a-dozen; it's the rest of it that's hard, as Stuart said on CBC today.