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
This Sunday, the Lutheran Church of Honolulu Choir will be singing two motets by the Spanish Renaissance composer, Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), Canite tuba (Blow the trumpet in the new moon) and Rorate caeli desuper (Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above). In an earlier post, I wrote about Guerrero’s being a musical prodigy, but… Read More Musical jailbirds
This Sunday the LCH Choir will be singing two motets by the Spanish Renaissance composer, Francisco Guerrero, 1527-1599, “Simile est regnum caelorum” and “Caro mea vere est cibus.” For the prelude, communion and postlude, I will be playing organ music by Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643. Both men were considered to be child prodigies in their… Read More Child wonders
That was Miguel Felipe’s assessment of tonight’s first choir rehearsal, and we are well on our way! The night before, he met the 8:00 am ensemble for their monthly rehearsal, but I didn’t attend. I was very glad that nearly everyone was seated and ready to go at 6:55 pm, which is absolutely remarkable! The… Read More ‘The ship has left the harbor’