It’s All Hallows Eve, also known as Halloween, and three guesses as to where I’ll be tonight?! It’s Thursday, meaning that I’ll be at choir rehearsal! It’s the beginning of a huge, super busy weekend for me — (what’s new?!) — beginning with what is sure to be a long rehearsal tonight with three high… Read More All Hallows Eve
Normally when you think of someone offering an organ concert on Halloween, you expect to hear Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” or some other organ piece deemed scary. Come of think of it, how is it that piece became associated with ghouls and goblins, anyway? According to James Bennett, II, Bach’s most famous… Read More Halloween fun
Yesterday was All Saints Sunday and I spent nearly the entire day at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. It all started with a 7:15 am rehearsal with the Hawaiian choir, and ended with a reception after the 5:30 pm Evensong — all for the purpose of “learning the ropes” for November 16, when I will be playing four services to substitute for John… Read More All Saints Sunday / Day of the Dead
When I turned on public radio yesterday, I heard host Gene Schiller introduce the next piece of music as “the most terrifying ever written” — and not to my surprise, he played an orchestral transcription of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For many, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Halloween go… Read More The most terrifying music