At this time of year, you’ll hear a lot of chatter among organists and other church musicians about waiting with baited breath for “The Chord,” and everyone knows what you’re talking about! I wait for this chord all year, and even though I know it’s coming, when I sing my note and hear the chord underneath,… Read More “The Chord”
You would have thought that after more than fifty years of playing the organ that I would know how to lead congregational singing from the organ — especially know the tempo of Christmas carols. Well, this morning, it was 2000 people in the Lower Gym of Iolani School with whom I played “tug of war”… Read More 2000 against 1 = Déjà vu!
Last night, Carl and I had a quiet dinner at home before he went off to sing with the St. Andrew’s Cathedral Choir at the midnight mass. He and I both remarked that it was the first time EVER in thirty-six years of marriage that we found ourselves alone on Christmas Eve for dinner. In… Read More Home alone