Setting the bar high

July 25, 2026

I said goodbye to my family at London Heathrow Airport and met up with Joan Ishibashi, and together we waited for Bill Potter to arrive from Honolulu. It took us about four hours to drive to Gloucester owing to the bad traffic—ordinarily it would take only 2-1/2 hours to drive the 100 miles, but we… Read More Setting the bar high

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Music for a Coronation

May 6, 2023

Seventy four years ago, on June 2, 1953, a 27-year-old Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was crowned Queen Elizabeth II in an almost 3-hour ceremony, which was preceded by a 5-mile long procession. 8,251 people attended the service at Westminster Abbey, and the coronation was the first to be televised. Elizabeth’s coronation was also the second… Read More Music for a Coronation

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Setting the bar high

Music for a Coronation