Composer Peter Hallock’s earthly life came to an end, and it was fitting that I participated in a quarterly meeting of the Peter R. Hallock Institute today by videoconference.

Facebook reminded me of this anniversary by posting this photo to my news feed.

The photo of Peter Hallock and Carl Crosier was actually taken nine years ago in Peter’s garden.

Steve Iverson also posted these photos from the 50th Anniversary celebration of the St. Mark’s Cathedral Seattle Compline Choir — we had a fun boat ride and salmon bake at Tillicum Village. I can’t believe it’s been about 15 years since this photo was taken!

The Hallock Institute was founded at Peter’s death. The Hallock Institute has three primary functions: (1) to ensure that Peter Hallock’s music is more widely known through production of reliable performance editions; (2) to ensure that Peter’s music is performed regularly by offering grants to churches and non-profit performing organizations to help underwrite the cost of hiring musicians; and, (3) to ensure that the Compline Choir and its core values and principles—the Compline ethos—are identified, celebrated, and shared with others through workshops, symposia, and other educational opportunities.

In case you don’t know the connection, the three of us (Peter Hallock, Carl Crosier and myself) founded Ionian Arts in 1986, primarily to publish the compositions of Peter Hallock and others, representing the best of liturgical music. Now that Peter and Carl are both singing in the heavenly choir, I have this year been asked to serve as Secretary of the Hallock Institute Board of Directors.

In other news, it has been THREE WHOLE DAYS since the Oahu Choral Society Chamber Choir’s concert and STILL I have a Bach ear worm going on in my head!

The concert went well and thanks to Mark Russell who took these pictures.

I don’t why I was the only person (other than conductor Esther Yoo) who got a lei at the concert! I am happy to have accepted the lei on behalf of my baby organ which I thought absolutely “bloomed” in the reverberant cathedral acoustics at St. Theresa’s!

Meanwhile, I am practicing the music of CPE Bach on the harpsichord—part of a Bach family concert scheduled for May 25th, “Think Outside the Bach.” More information will be forthcoming.