Many churches have not been able to hold in-person worship services during the pandemic and have turned to technology to keep us together. Church musicians have stepped up to the challenge and have become film producers, concerned not only with the music-making, but also video production, creating virtual choir performances, in essence, they have had… Read More Video wizardry
The last two Early Music Hawaii concerts have been virtual, meaning that a video was created of the performance and then posted at a specified time. As an audience member you received an email message with the link to open the file. Obviously someone was behind the scenes, creating the email link in it, and… Read More The new normal
You may recall that my husband, Carl, was the recipient of a Philip Belt fortepiano upon the death of his college piano teacher, Else Geissmar. Then when Carl died, he bequeathed the fortepiano to our friend, Mark Russell, and I bought a small pipe organ. Now Mark is moving and will have no space for… Read More The fortepiano returns!
Last week the board members of Early Music Hawaii were treated to a veritable musical feast—we got a sneak peek at the video by Ensemble Les Délices which will be released this coming Friday, November 13 at 7:00 pm. You’ll be able to view it through the following Thursday, November 19. By a musical feast,… Read More A musical feast
Normally when you think of someone offering an organ concert on Halloween, you expect to hear Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” or some other organ piece deemed scary. Come of think of it, how is it that piece became associated with ghouls and goblins, anyway? According to James Bennett, II, Bach’s most famous… Read More Halloween fun
Over the past seven months our world has changed due to the novel coronavirus, upending our churches, our choirs, our economies and our way of life. All of my spring concerts got cancelled, or took on a new format, as our latest Early Music Hawaii concert was videotaped and then broadcast over the internet. The… Read More Good news for a change!
At least, that’s how I saw myself in Early Music Hawaii’s first virtual concert, “Sacred Music of the English Reformation.” A number of cameras on iPhones and iPads were focused on me, and you never see my face, only my hair! On Friday night, when the video was set to go “live,” it was my… Read More A head full of hair
A couple of weeks ago I received an email message from the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra with the enticing title: Offer of work with the Hawaii Symphony Alas, it was an invitation to play the organ part of the Albinoni “Adagio” at their concert at The Hawai’i Theatre. Most unfortunately, I would have to turn it… Read More Albinoni on a theatre organ?
This past week we have put the finishing touches on the Early Music Hawaii program, “Masters of the English Reformation” which will be aired beginning Friday, October 23rd at 7:00 pm and will be available on the website for one week. The program really consists of two parts: Sacred music, which will be aired on… Read More Definitely OLD School!
As the Nobel Prizes are being announced in the last week, I am remembering that a year ago, I was in Oslo, Norway, and actually traveled to the site of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Oslo City Hall. This year the award went to the World Food Programme as announced just a couple of… Read More Like getting a Nobel Prize!