Last night’s “From Venice to Dresden” Early Music Hawaii concert was advertised as music from Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries, and how they brought the Venetian polychoral music tradition to Germany. What we didn’t advertise, though, was that it was Scott Fikse’s last EMH concert before leaving Hawai’i to attend graduate school at the University… Read More Scott’s farewell concert
It’s Heinrich Schütz week and we’ve already had three rehearsals for Saturday’s concert, “From Venice to Dresden,” May 7 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu at 7:30 pm. The concert is the last one for the season for Early Music Hawaii, and will be conducted by Scott Fikse. Singers include Honolulu’s finest early music performers,… Read More Miracles
It was already going to be a really busy week. Today, I spent the day teaching on Kauai, and then had an orchestra and choir rehearsal scheduled for tonight, plus two other nights this week in preparation for the Early Music Hawaii concert, “From Venice to Dresden” on Saturday night, May 7th at 7:30 pm.… Read More A hole in my head
I was privileged to watch a livestream of Naomi Castro’s graduate recital today—if you look at the Tag Cloud on the right column, I’ve written about her frequently. She grew up at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu (in fact, I played the organ for her parents’ wedding!), and her mother and father sang in the… Read More “All in one piece!”
One term my late husband used to say before any of our deadlines is “It’s going to be a race to the finish!” On May 12th the plan is that I’ll be getting on the plane to England and Portugal, but what I have to do in the meantime is almost an unending list of… Read More A race to the finish!
The next few weeks I’ll be out of my comfort zone as extensive renovations at Nuuanu Congregational Church will move the worship services to the church gymnasium until perhaps the first week in June. That means I’ll be playing a digital piano instead of organ for the service — DEFINITELY out of my comfort zone.… Read More Out of my comfort zone
Last week, I was tasked with trying to find an image for Early Music Hawaii’s last concert of the season, “From Venice to Dresden,” which will feature the music of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Here was the text I was given by Ian Capps, President: Heinrich Schütz was the most prominent of many German composers who… Read More From Venice to Dresden
The number of organists has dwindled so much that when I wear this T-shirt through airport security, I get comments! Yup, I was wearing this shirt when I went to Kauai last month, and the lady at TSA asked me, “Are you an organist?” (DUH!) “Yes,” I answered. “My brother is an organist.” I didn’t… Read More Remembering Ruth
The night before last, I attended “Sophia’s Symphonic Send-off,” a fundraiser for the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, featuring Sophia Stark, the daughter of Darel and Georgine Stark, shortly before she travels to Tennessee for the national Miss Teen Volunteer American Pageant. In the fall, Sophia will also be attending Manhattan School of Music in New York… Read More Sophia’s night
Tonight Scott Fikse put the finishing touches on Early Music Hawaii’s long-delayed Josquin Des Prez’ “A 500th Anniversary Celebration” video which is now live through April 8, 2022. If you remember, we were all set to perform this music last September when the delta and then the omicron variants of coronavirus hit suddenly and all… Read More Josquin—only one week!