The reputation of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu in the community is that it is a storehouse of “old” music — works by Renaissance composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the like. But it is also a place where much new music is brought to light, pieces which have been written in our time. For example,… Read More New director, new repertoire
There is nothing like a new coat of paint to jumpstart the new choir season! Today when I met with Miguel Felipe to help him type his first LCH bulletin, I couldn’t help but notice that the Music Director’s office had been completely repainted and the furniture rearranged over the weekend. Wow, everything looks so… Read More Nothing like a new coat of paint
Traditionally, the passing of Labor Day marks the end of summer, yet schools are well into the fall semester and LCH Choir began its weekly Thursday night rehearsals last week. I’m afraid that I haven’t gotten to this blog in the last few days because I’ve been on an archaeological dig! Seriously, I and my… Read More Back to the grind
That was Miguel Felipe’s assessment of tonight’s first choir rehearsal, and we are well on our way! The night before, he met the 8:00 am ensemble for their monthly rehearsal, but I didn’t attend. I was very glad that nearly everyone was seated and ready to go at 6:55 pm, which is absolutely remarkable! The… Read More ‘The ship has left the harbor’
Tomorrow night we are looking forward to the first Thursday night choir rehearsal with Miguel Felipe and already it’s been a jumpstart into the 21st century! He sent out the following message: I can’t fully express how excited I am to serve at LCH. The robust program—the entire program—is a bold and beautiful expression of LCH as a… Read More A new era
We’ve spent a lot of time recently with Miguel Felipe, newly-appointed Director of Music and Liturgy, helping him locate important resources, sharing computer files and just generally having lots of great conversations. Even though the Search Committee had meetings since July 2010, a year ago, as late as June 2011, there seemed to be no… Read More Someone out there is looking for you!
Yesterday Carl said to me, “Are you going to stop blogging now that I’m retired? Things won’t be so insane anymore!” Hmmm . . . I revisited the very first post I wrote, which was last year, June 22nd, 2010 called “Why are we starting this blog?” and the reason I listed was to document Carl… Read More To blog or not to blog
Since I’ve been typing the weekly church bulletins for the 10:30 service since last fall when Carl’s computer died, one advantage (?) I’ve had is being able to change the organ music at the last moment. Even though I had already programmed Mendelssohn on the repertoire list, when I saw that the choir was singing… Read More Mostly Mozart
One of the biggest surprises to Carl from last Sunday’s presentations was a card and lei from the Bach Chamber Orchestra personnel. Inside were many emails and messages from not only the musicians who played for Carl’s last service (Darel Stark, Judy Barrett, Kathy Hafner, Elaine Lu, Anna Womack, Mark Butin, Karen Fujimoto, John Gallagher,… Read More Special thanks from special friends
Over the last two weeks or so, Carl has been meeting with the new Director of Music and Liturgy, Miguel Felipe, to share resources and show him where to find pertinent files in the office. Even though Miguel doesn’t officially come on board until September 1st, 2011, he has already become well acquainted with the… Read More The handoff begins