Last Saturday night I had been watching TV and then got up to get a drink of water when I saw the trail of blood, coming out from the refrigerator! If this had been a horror movie, the presence of blood dripping out meant that there was a body inside! Drip, drip, drip… the blood… Read More A tale of two turkeys
Last night was the official debut of the Estonia piano at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, which culminated in a Facebook Live event featuring Maika’i Nash and Mark Wong. They performed music for two pianos in a concert called Taevamuusika, which is Estonian for “music of the heavens.” You can refresh your memory on the… Read More Taevamuusika
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?