This week I’ve been working on Bach’s choral prelude on “Nun danket alle Gott” for the organ prelude at the 10:30 service. When I first started to play the organ at age thirteen, my teacher mentioned the term “choral prelude” to me nearly at the beginning, but I really didn’t understand it in the context… Read More A Bach Choral Prelude
At tomorrow’s 10:30 am service, Oct. 3rd, I will be playing music by 19th century composer, Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847. The organ prelude and postlude will be from the Sonata No. 2 in C minor, a piece I first learned in high school, and the second movement of which is unusual in that it is written… Read More Mostly Mendelssohn
It’s common knowledge that there has never been a publication without a mistake in it — “To err is human” — right? This past week, volunteers Vreni Griffith, Nedra Walker, Jeannette Johnson and Ian Capps spent many, many hours on preparing our Abendmusiken season brochure for mailing. Most unfortunately, the ticket order form had a… Read More The brochure is out!
For the last month, the Concert Committee has been hard at work to finalize a season brochure to send out to our music mailing list. I just got a notice today that the brochures are being delivered TOMORROW, and so the next step will be to stick on address labels and take them to bulk… Read More Ready, set . . . PRINT!
This Sunday, September 26th at the 10:30 am service, we are in for another musical treat. The offertory will be one of Heinrich Schütz’ concertos or sacred symphonies, “Vater Abraham, erbarme dich mein, SWV 477.” It is an exact repetition of the Gospel lesson (Luke 16:19-31) for this Sunday, except it’s in German. David Del… Read More Schütz’ Symphoniae Sacrae
This Sunday, Sept. 19th at the 10:30 service, we are going to have a mini-Mozart festival. The service will begin with soprano Georgine Stark, singing the “Laudate Dominum” from the Vesperae de Dominica, K. 321 as the prelude. This is a real “tour de force” for both soprano and accompanist (that’s me!) We’re actually going… Read More Mmmmm . . . Mozart!
When I was seventeen, I had the great fortune of going to Paris and studying with the French virtuoso, Marcel Dupré. Of course, at the time, I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have this experience, and even though I thought I was pretty good at the time, I really knew NOTHING much about… Read More Marcel Dupré, organist extraordinaire
Last night was the first evening rehearsal for the season, and everyone got a copy of the rehearsal schedule for the year. Now, it’s just ink on the paper, but very soon, we’ll find ourselves out night after night, and wondering “Whoever dreamed up this madness, anyway?!” Carl said for sure, he’s not going out… Read More Hold onto your hats! the Madness begins!
We’ve been in the middle of a bathroom remodeling the last few weeks and consequently I haven’t been able to get to this blog lately, with all the upheaval caused by our moving into the guest room and bathroom during this time. I’m a subscriber to a LISTSERV dedicated to folks interested in the pipe… Read More Turning pages
Last week we publicly said ‘aloha’ to the Gorman family, who have moved to Houston, TX where Mike will be working for the Houston Symphony as a personnel manager. Pastor Jeff told of their tremendous involvement in the musical life of LCH, then Carl Crosier got up and presented the first of what he called… Read More More faces from the past!