Early Music Hawaii’s season opener is called The Polish Renaissance, and will be held on Saturday, September 17th at 7:30 pm at the Lutheran Church of the Honolulu. You may have already received this postcard: The graphic shows a medieval view of Krakow from 1493 in a woodcut from Hartmann Schedel‘s Nuremberg Chronicle; view facing west, with Casmirus… Read More The Golden Age of Polish culture
The countdown has now begun on all the work I need to do before playing the next Early Music Hawaii concert on September 17 — the Polish Renaissance, with music by composers I have no idea how to pronounce (or even type!) Here is the list of composers whose works will be performed: Marcin Leopolita… Read More All those itty bitty numbers!
I learned a new word today: Deux-olingo, which describes someone who is trying to learn two languages at once. I learned the word from one of the latest blogs on the Duolingo app, https://blog.duolingo.com/how-to-learn-multiple-languages/. Go ahead and click the link, you’ll find it most interesting! It’s only been about three weeks now, but I’ve spent… Read More Deux-olingo
When last week the Lutheran Church of Honolulu brought a candidate to Hawaii to audition for the job of Music Director and Organist, I thought back to the three church jobs I’ve had since moving here: Church of the Holy Nativity, 1973-1976Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1978-2012Nuuanu Congregational Church, 2020-present Would you believe that I never… Read More The organist’s audition
Yesterday was my monthly eye injection for macular degeneration and while the injection itself went smoothly, my eye started burning when I left my doctor’s office. Not good — as I waited patiently for the music I would be playing today. OF COURSE, I had to have one more task before getting on an early… Read More One last adventure before London
Last night’s “From Venice to Dresden” Early Music Hawaii concert was advertised as music from Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries, and how they brought the Venetian polychoral music tradition to Germany. What we didn’t advertise, though, was that it was Scott Fikse’s last EMH concert before leaving Hawai’i to attend graduate school at the University… Read More Scott’s farewell concert
It’s Heinrich Schütz week and we’ve already had three rehearsals for Saturday’s concert, “From Venice to Dresden,” May 7 at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu at 7:30 pm. The concert is the last one for the season for Early Music Hawaii, and will be conducted by Scott Fikse. Singers include Honolulu’s finest early music performers,… Read More Miracles
It was already going to be a really busy week. Today, I spent the day teaching on Kauai, and then had an orchestra and choir rehearsal scheduled for tonight, plus two other nights this week in preparation for the Early Music Hawaii concert, “From Venice to Dresden” on Saturday night, May 7th at 7:30 pm.… Read More A hole in my head
One term my late husband used to say before any of our deadlines is “It’s going to be a race to the finish!” On May 12th the plan is that I’ll be getting on the plane to England and Portugal, but what I have to do in the meantime is almost an unending list of… Read More A race to the finish!
Last week, I was tasked with trying to find an image for Early Music Hawaii’s last concert of the season, “From Venice to Dresden,” which will feature the music of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Here was the text I was given by Ian Capps, President: Heinrich Schütz was the most prominent of many German composers who… Read More From Venice to Dresden