The day started out poorly, with me barely getting to the airport at the last minute, then whipping out my mobile boarding pass to show to the TSA agent, only to have him say, “This is for the WRONG airport!” You see, I had forgotten to delete the boarding pass from Sunday’s Kona to Honolulu segment.

I hurriedly glanced at the electronic bulletin board to find out from which gate my flight was leaving, then settled down to work on a sudoku puzzle. At about ten minutes before my scheduled departure, nobody was boarding. To my consternation the destination showed Hilo, not Lihue as I was expecting. Horrors, I was at the WRONG gate! The gate for my flight was six gates away, and even though I ran like the dickens, I got there in five minutes only to see the plane pulling out of the gate, five minutes early!

The Hawaiian Airlines agent was already walking away from his post, and I had to call after him to stop. He got me on the next flight, about 40 minutes after the last one left, which was actually nicer because it was only half full and had more room to stretch out.

This time I took an Uber to All Saints Episcopal Church, where the new Rosales organ will be installed in the spring. I had arranged for the shipment of an old Baldwin organ to Kauai—the organ had been used as a practice instrument for Joshua, Daniel and Naomi Yuen-Schat from the time the youngest, Naomi, was in first grade.

Now Naomi is a sophomore in college and their mom was eager to have the organ out of the house to have more space. In a way, this organ is like the Prodigal Son: it was originally purchased by AGO member, Fred Merchant, when he lived on Kauai. Now it has returned to The Garden Island, where it will be a lot more convenient for Hank Curtis to practice before the Rosales arrives.

We actually had a very good lesson before it was time for me to call Uber to travel to Lihue United Church where the Kauai Chorale will give a concert tomorrow night. I took every minute possible but still didn’t quite finish registering all the choral and organ pieces before the choir rehearsal at 3:00 pm.

There are only 15 singers for this concert—the rest of the 60-member Kauai Chorale will present a formal concert with the same theme at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center on Sunday afternoon, but with piano accompaniment rather than organ.

After the rehearsal Morris Wise took me to dinner at the Lava Lava Café, right on the beach, a lovely, relaxed setting with live Hawaiian music.

Here’s a concert poster for you to see.

The program has excellent repertoire choices, which I will detail in tomorrow’s post. I am glad that I will have the opportunity for a good practice session for most of the day.

Do go back and reread my last post about the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble concerts on Saturday and Sunday. I wouldn’t want to give you the impression that the concert isn’t quite put together—the choir sounds beautiful—and we figured a way to align the pedalboard to avoid the tone clusters.

Everything will be just fine, I promise!