Today would have been Edith Ho’s 89th birthday. Everybody had an “Edith Ho” story, and in addition to what I wrote on the day of her passing, “A giant in church music,” not only did Edith send me the obituary she had written several years ago, she also left instructions for her Requiem. A 22-voice… Read More Happy heavenly birthday, Edith!
It was my former student, Joey Fala, who first texted me this morning about the death of Edith Ho. “I just saw Edith Ho passed away.” He apparently had received the news from Walden Moore, (whom I met when I visited Joey at Yale) who wrote: So very sorry to hear of the passing of… Read More Tributes to Edith
Edith Ho, 1932-2021. We brought a lei for Edith as she was honored in 2007 at her retirement from the Church of the Advent, Boston. Luckily she had a blouse to match! Edith Ho wasn’t more than five feet tall yet she was a giant in the field of church music. In one of the… Read More A giant in church music
I spent the morning packing my suitcase before getting an Uber to the Church of the Advent. The apartment where I’ve been staying is not available tonight so I will be moving to a bed-and-breakfast next door to Edith Ho’s house for my last night in Boston. Edith will take the luggage back home while… Read More Trinity at the Advent
I spent the morning looking for a post office and took these pictures of churches along the way. Yesterday was cold and rainy and today is a beautiful day in Boston! The courtyard at First Lutheran. Yesterday it was pouring buckets here. After spending about six hours yesterday attending three organ recitals at First Lutheran… Read More Another day at First Lutheran
This is my last week in Honolulu before embarking on my summer travel. I had one last gig this morning—substituting for Gloria Faltstrom, organist at Waiokeola Congregational Church, and home to the Heissler tracker organ. Waiokeola is also the parish church of a former student of mine, Andrew Moore, the grandson of Bud Klein, the… Read More Boston on the brain!
Not long ago I posted this picture in connection with my 50th high school reunion in Burbank, California: The photo, along with a short article, appeared in the Burbank Daily Review newspaper, and I saved both in a scrapbook. I believe it was in January of 2013 that I finally sat down to open our Christmas cards,… Read More Fifty years later …
My long-time friend, Edith Ho, formerly of the Church of the Advent in Boston, passed along this video of the recently-rebuilt organ at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the world of organs and organists. Although the video is narrated in French by… Read More The organ of Notre Dame Cathedral
Last night I had dinner with Michael Kleinschmidt and Marc Aubertin, who are in Hawaii on vacation. You may recall that the first time I wrote about them was in my post “A break from Bach,” in which I recounted their visit to our condo in May 2011 and Carl cooked dinner. Guess what we were doing back then… Read More Discovering Hallock anew
Okay, I am an admitted political junkie, and can’t get enough of watching the debates, talk shows and news about the presidential race. This morning, though, for once I was grateful for the two-hour respite without partisan bickering as the nation paused to remember the life of Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice in today’s Supreme Court at… Read More The peace may be exchanged