Lately I have to admit that I’ve been a little discouraged about the few number of organists in this town. I’ve been getting calls from churches looking for both temporary and permanent organists where in reality, none can be had. You may remember that the priest at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church contacted me early in… Read More The future … the organ ?
While my colleagues at the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) were meeting this week for their biennual conference in Philadelphia, look what popped up in my Facebook feed! It was a picture of my husband, Carl, and me with my sister, Doris Au MacDonald and her duet partner, Sharon Dennis (aka The Braeded Chord)… Read More Across the pond(s)
If you go back and read my post “Double duty,” you’ll remember that today was the day that I had very little time to travel from the 9:00 am service at Nuuanu Congregational Church in order to arrive at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church to play their 10:30 am service. Even though typically the Nuuanu service… Read More You know you’re late …
Yesterday’s homework assignment to create a family tree for my Cada Dia Spanish class led me to investigate the people in my family. As I’ve written before, I come from a very large family — I am the oldest of five children, my mother was also the oldest of five children in her family, and… Read More Music in my family
A few days ago, I received an email from my friend and former organist duet partner, Jieun Kim Newland. Hi Kathy, A good friend of mine, Russell Weismann is visiting Honolulu. He and I studied together at ISM (Institute of Sacred Music). He is a fabulous organist and is teaching at Georgetown University. Russ is also… Read More Distinguished visitor
In two weeks, I’ll be playing the organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Kapahulu, near Waikiki. I’m already nervous about getting to the church on time, because I’ll first have to finish playing the 9:00 am service at Nuuanu Congregational Church. The last few weeks I haven’t been able to return to my car… Read More Double duty
Ah, you probably don’t even know what I’m talking about. A few years ago, I found a cartoon about the music of Olivier Messiaen that I “Liked” on Facebook and perhaps even copied. I thought perhaps I had saved a copy in my Photos on my phone, but as I laboriously looked through years 2000-2015… Read More The lost is found!
I think it was already Wednesday when I decided to have a dinner party Friday. That was last night, when I invited the German organ builders, Hans-Ulrich Erbslöh and Bernd Becker, along with Barry Wenger and Steve Hoover, plus Frank and Sue Haas, who are hosting Hans in their home in Kailua. Barry, as you… Read More Last minute dinner party
Hans-Ulrich Erbslöh, who first came to Hawaii nearly 50 years ago to install the Beckerath organ, is back in town, along with his assistant, Bernd Becker, to service the two organs in the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, in addition to the J. W. Walker organ at St. Christopher’s Kailua; the Beckerath organ at Holy Innocents,… Read More The German organbuilders are here!
Seventy four years ago, on June 2, 1953, a 27-year-old Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was crowned Queen Elizabeth II in an almost 3-hour ceremony, which was preceded by a 5-mile long procession. 8,251 people attended the service at Westminster Abbey, and the coronation was the first to be televised. Elizabeth’s coronation was also the second… Read More Music for a Coronation