On our last night in Athens, our EF GoAhead tour group took one final group picture before walking across the street for our farewell dinner. I must say that this was really a nice bunch of people and we seemed to get along well. Someone asked how we liked the food, and I responded that… Read More 28 hours to Honolulu
Just as it was unusual to visit a pipe organ factory in Barcelona, I think what was out of the ordinary today was a visit to an icon workshop in the Meteora region. The owner, a Greek Orthodox priest, was occupied with church duties today, so his son gave us the tour (yes, Greek Orthodox… Read More An icon workshop
Thursday, the day we left Honolulu, was an incredibly busy day, and as usual, I crammed as much in as possible, starting in the early morning with an eye injection for my macular degeneration (which requires me to put drops in my eyes every 30 minutes for most of the day), having my housekeeper coming… Read More 22 hours to Barcelona
On Saturday, we received a text message from choirmaster Mike Dupre: Tomorrow is Laetare Sunday! Anyone want to wear Rose/pink tomorrow? According to Wikipedia, Laetare Sunday is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration within the austere period of Lent. This Sunday gets… Read More Laetare Sunday pink
By all accounts it has been a baaaaad week. It started when I tried to update the Early Music Hawaii website, where I am the webmaster. I needed to add information about the upcoming concert, Tourdions! by the early music ensemble, Ciaramella on March 9 and 10. Here’s the postcard I designed. To my shock,… Read More Suckered again!
I’ve just come from the Early Music Hawaii concert by Les Délices and to say it was outstanding is an understatement —it was medieval perfection! There were only four people in the ensemble but two of them played several instruments: Debra Nagy (recorders, douçaine, harp and voice); Scott Metcalfe (vielle and gothic harp); Sophie Michaux… Read More 14th Century Avant-Garde perfection
A few days ago, a longtime friend who is a faithful reader of this blog sent me this message: “… I haven’t read a blog from you for quite awhile. Everything ok? 🤗💕” I pointed out that I had written a post just five days prior, but apparently she hadn’t received the notice. People who… Read More Controlled (?) mayhem
I was talking with a friend who wasn’t able to go to the Early Music Hawaii concert last weekend, but she said that the next day at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, *everybody* was talking about the concert and its success. “I went into the Board Room, and they were talking about last night’s concert.… Read More Everybody was talking about …
I know you’ve heard that expression before! If you look it up in a dictionary (on the internet, of course!) it’s a term which expresses surprise or amazement: “Great Scott!” is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and… Read More Great Scott!
For the upcoming Early Music Hawaii concert, “The Golden Age of Spanish Culture,” the ensemble has rehearsed online over Zoom, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, and last night, in my bedroom! All because rehearsal space at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu has not been available. When we remodeled our condo in 2012, I am glad… Read More A bedroom rehearsal hall