So exclaimed Esther Yoo as she conducted the opening Sinfonia from Bach Cantata 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden, in the spacious Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa. As you can see by the photo above, my little organ is placed front and center and gosh! It sounds absolutely gorgeous in there. Having heard the organ in the… Read More Bach sounds FANTASTIC!
My baby organ has just left the building, on its way to the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa—where on Friday, April 26th I will be accompanying the Oahu Choral Society Chamber Choir in three works by Bach: Komm, Jesu komm; Singet dem Herrn and Cantata 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden. Esther Yoo will also conduct Herbert… Read More Have organ … will travel
As the horrifying images of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral on fire spread throughout the world, there was an overwhelming anxiety in the organ world, “What is happening to the organ?” I was especially alarmed when I saw this drone photo of the nave on fire. Surely, the organ was lost! It is the largest organ… Read More ‘It is a miracle!’
Yesterday’s concert with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra was one of those times when you leave the hall with a lighter spring in your step, and the adrenaline is rushing through your veins. Much of that was due to the exciting conducting of Rei Hotoda, who made her HSO debut yesterday. What I found so mesmerizing… Read More Dynamo guest-conducts HSO
Yesterday I attended the spring benefit event, Kupu A‘e 2019, for the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus at the Dole Cannery, which included a buffet lunch, silent auction and entertainment by the HYOC and guests. The Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus is Hawaii’s oldest and most advanced community youth choir, offering a full spectrum of music education… Read More 58 years of teaching kids
I have been home for less than two days—it’s 2:25 am and can’t sleep. Ah jet lag, my old friend, what’s new?! In looking over my photos, I realized I took a bunch more which I haven’t posted yet from our trip to Port Isaac, the real life village of Doc Martin. On our walking… Read More Churches in Port Isaac
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming: There’s the lifeboat station, oh, and over there is where Doc Martin buys his fish. Look, there’s Mrs Tishell’s pharmacy and here’s the restaurant where Martin has lunch with his friend. Oh, and over there I see Doc Martin’s surgery! About two years ago,… Read More Portwenn: A dream come true
For the last part of our tour of Cornwall, we stopped at Jamaica Inn which was built as a coaching inn in 1750, and had an association with smuggling. It was the setting for Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, which was made into the film Jamaica Inn in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. We… Read More Jamaica Inn, Padstow and Doyden Castle
St. Nonna’s Church of Altarnun is known as the “Cathedral of the Moors.” St. Nonna was the mother of St. David and left her native Wales around the year 527. She was one of many Celtic missionaries who passed through Cornwall on their way to Europe in the 6th and 7th centuries. Our driver, Jon,… Read More St. Nonna’s Church, Altarnun
A hearty farmhouse breakfast After a HUGE breakfast at the Tregellist Farm, we were picked up by Jon of Cornwall Tours for a scheduled eight hours-long custom tour of the Cornwall countryside. But first—we ran into a Cornwall traffic jam! Our first stop was Port Isaac aka Portwenn, the fictional village in the television show,… Read More Spectacular scenery in Cornwall