When Lan Shui, Music Director of the Singapore Symphony, began the 14–15 November 2003 pair of concerts with Joan Tower's first Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, he specifically had in mind who would follow: Evelyn Glennie, who entered wearing a black lace blouse with solid black breast-plate, black lace cape, and hot, tight, flaming red sequined slacks with a large bare metal cross around her neck. I exclaimed, ‘Now that's the kind of priest I'd like in my church!’