We were just about ready to go on stage last night when Jeremy Wong took this picture of the Early Music Hawaii Chamber Singers. We were talking about next weekend when we will all travel to Kona on the Big Island to repeat our concert, Bridging the Centuries 2, and were comparing our arrival times. However, Ian Capps,… Read More Hilarity behind the scenes
Tonight was the dress rehearsal for tomorrow’s Early Music Hawaii concert called “Bridging the Centuries 2” which will be the debut of the Early Music Hawaii Chamber Singers. I must say that EMH has picked the cream of the crop of choral singers in Honolulu — every singer is a soloist in his or her… Read More The EMH Chamber Singers debut
Today was a first — my first piano lesson in over five decades! You see, in the upcoming Early Music Hawaii concert (only two days away!) I’m having to play the piano for the accompaniment to three pieces on the program. They include In vidi in terra by Franz Liszt, Nigra sum by Pablo Casals and… Read More A piano lesson
Being a musician is somewhat akin to being an accountant — there are always deadlines which keep on coming, and they never end, like taxes. No sooner do you finish one task and then there’s the next one right behind it. And right now I have the looming deadline of the next Early Music Hawaii concerts, which… Read More Out of my comfort zone
Over the holidays, I moved my spinet harpsichord to the guest room so that I could set up my Christmas tree in the music room. But since Ian Capps asked me to host one of the visiting artists for the upcoming Early Music Hawaii concert, I told him that he and Jeannette would have to help… Read More Early Music at the movies
According to the calendar on my phone, I was to leave today for my tour to Rome, Italy. So I stopped the newspaper and the mail, and packed my suitcase. I’m all ready to go! It was when I tried to arrange a ride to the airport, I thought I’d double-check the time of my… Read More Reprieve
Somehow I just knew last weekend’s concert was going to be a great success, because when Dana Marsh walked into my apartment for the first time last Monday, and we opened the blinds, this is the view that greeted us: The Early Music Hawaii concert, Musica Poetica, is now in the record books as “one… Read More Post-concert decompression
I’m still basking in the afterglow of last night’s Musica Poetica concert for Early Music Hawaii and over and over again, people came up to me and said, “I felt Carl Crosier was here.” It was not just the repertoire — it was the high standard of music-making that guest conductor Dana Marsh brought the singers and… Read More Carl was here!
Tonight is our dress rehearsal for Musica Poetica, the first of Early Music Hawaii’s concerts for the 2015-2016 season, which will take place tomorrow night, Saturday, September 19th at 7:30 pm at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. If you look up the definition of “dress rehearsal,” and you are putting on an opera, the cast… Read More Dress rehearsal
Newspaper … Radio … Television … Direct Mail! Early Music Hawaii has used all the tools of the trade to get the word out about this Saturday’s Musica Poetica concert, September 19 at 7:30 pm at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. A few days before Labor Day, the Musica Poetica… Read More Media Quadruple-Whammy