Hey! tomorrow morning you will see sackbuts on TV! Yes, our visiting musicians from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for this Saturday’s Musica Poetica concert will be on the Sunrise morning television show tomorrow! You’ll have to get up early to see them, though, because the sackbuts and cornetto will be playing live at… Read More Sackbuts on Sunrise!
It was January 14, 2015 when I attended a board meeting of Early Music Hawaii that I first suggested the name Dana Marsh to conduct a concert here. It was actually Peter Hallock who told us about Dana years and years ago — Dana was one of Peter’s former students who was trained as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Church Fifth… Read More Three old friends
The sack . . . what? Is that kind of a joke? Can you imagine your kid coming home from school and saying, “Mom and dad, I’m going to play the sackbut!” Someone even said, “What a dumb name for an instrument!” By now, many people have received the Early Music Hawaii postcard announcing the… Read More The sackbuts are coming!
I just finished the postcard for the upcoming Early Music Hawaii concert and thought I’d give you a sneak peek while it is at the printshop. Just in case you didn’t recognize the scene, it’s a drawing of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. While this program will not have a single piece of Johann Sebastian Bach (whose… Read More Upcoming Surround Sound
Last night I attended a board meeting of Early Music Hawaii whose 2015-2016 season will be called “Musica Poetica,” after the first concert which will be held on Saturday, September 19 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. The season brochure I designed a week ago is already expected back from the printshop, but I thought I’d… Read More Musica Poetica
Last night’s performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 capped off a spectacular day and was for me the perfect end of the Boston Early Music Festival. (The Festival does not end until Sunday but it is the end for me because I am traveling to Germany today.) There were just 10 singers (of which there were only 3 women and… Read More Spectacular Vespers!
I just finished the program layout for Early Music Hawaii’s next visiting artists, Ensemble Mirable, whose concerts will be this coming Thursday, April 16 in Kealakekua and Saturday, April 18 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. Guests artists are Dan Laurin on recorder and Jin Kim, baroque violin, and other instrumentalists include JungHae Kim, harpsichord; Joanna… Read More Ensemble Mirable
You remember the legend of Sisyphus, don’t you?Sisyphus was a bad king whose punishment for his deceitfulness was to push a huge boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back to the bottom again. I had recalled this Greek myth in a prior post about playing Jeremiah Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary over and over and over… Read More Bridging the Centuries
Tonight’s all-women’s Early Music Hawaii concert, “Triumph Against the Odds,” had Carl Crosier’s fingerprints all over it — a total triumph, in terms of programming, execution, and the added bonus of a great audience. Carl selected all the women who sang in it, picked all the music, and even suggested what they should wear — all black… Read More Total ‘Triumph’
When you open the program booklet at Friday night’s Early Music Hawaii concert, Triumph Against the Odds, here’s what you’ll read: This program is the inspiration of Carl Crosier who, as Artistic Director of EMH for three seasons, wished to present one of his favorite repertories in the magnificent ambience for which it was originally intended.… Read More Triumph Against the Odds