This Sunday it’s the Sunday of the Passion, or Palm Sunday, meaning that the end of Lent is upon us — and it’s going to be the end of my Lenten discipline of getting up early to practice Bach’s Great Eighteen Chorales, also called The Leipzig Chorales. I sometimes have felt like “a thief in… Read More Like a thief in the night
The world yesterday was abuzz with the words spoken at the Vatican: Habemus Papam “We have a pope.” So it is somewhat coincidental that the following announcement was made by the Lutheran Church of Honolulu office: Organ Recital with Selected Candidate Wednesday, March 20, 5:45 pm After much prayer and deliberation over materials from and… Read More Ironic switcheroo!
Extraordinary. That’s the only way I can describe this whirlwind weekend with 24-year-old concert organist, Nathan Laube, here in Hawaii on spring break from his studies at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany. From the time we picked Nathan up from his flight from Boston, where he had just given a concert at Harvard Memorial Chapel,… Read More Extraordinary
This week we are hosting organist, Nathan Laube, while he prepares for the Eighth Annual Organ Concert at Central Union Church, Sunday, March 10th at 4 pm. You may have seen the promotional postcard which shows Nathan at the American Cathedral in Paris where he is Artist-in-Residence. If you read the back of the postcard,… Read More Commuter organist
Some photos of the young Barack Obama in Hawaii have surfaced recently, and one in particular caught my eye. It was a picture of President Obama in his ninth grade class at Punahou School — and the school is directly across the street from the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. In fact you can see the… Read More Just across the street!
My husband, Carl, just came back from a ten-day business trip to Philadelphia and Boston but took the opportunity to meet up with some long-lost friends — some of whom he had not seen in DECADES and all who had some connection to the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and its music program. When he found… Read More Reaching into the distant past
This afternoon was the annual Children’s Benefit Concert at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu — always presented during Lent which not only showcases the talented children of LCH but also raises money for a good cause. For the past seven years the beneficiary has been Heifer International, but this year the concert planners decided to… Read More A surprise performer!
When I read about the death today of French organist, Marie-Claire Alain, I got a huge lump in my throat. You see, for the past three weeks, I have incessantly played her recordings of Bach’s Great Eighteen chorales over and over and over again. I have the CD in my car, and whenever I’m out… Read More Marie-Claire Alain, 1926-2013
Over the weekend, there was an article published by the Kansas City Star which has been widely shared among organists: “Pipe organs soar, but number of players dips.” According to the article, the number of college organ students is shrinking, despite the number of new instrument installations. It cites the multi-million dollar University of Kansas organ… Read More Endangered species
wun·der·kind (vndr-knd, wn-) n. pl. wun·der·kin·der (-kndr) 1. A child prodigy. 2. A person of remarkable talent or ability who achieves great success or acclaim at an early age. [German : Wunder, wonder, prodigy (from Middle High German, from Old High German wuntar) A wunderkind is coming to Honolulu in the person of Nathan Laube, concert… Read More Wunderkind