I have this fantasy that when you’re retired, you’re able to throw away your alarm clock! No such luck, I still get up at 5:30 a.m. every morning, even though I may have stayed up past midnight to watch Spanish language telenovelas! It’s a fact of life, like death and taxes, that a musician’s life… Read More Delusions of retirement
In the midst of preparations for “Celebrating the Pipe Organ in Hawaii,” there’s been another responsibility on my plate: to help publicize a special video presentation for Early Music Hawaii which begins THIS FRIDAY, March 4th and runs through March 11th, with a group called Calextone (ca-lek-sto-neh). The program is called “The Age of Bococcio’s… Read More Calextone is gorgeous!
Yesterday the Early Music Hawaii board made the difficult decision to postpone the September 11th all-Josquin concert. Here is the message from Ian Capps, president of Early Music Hawaii: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Lovers of Early Music: Given the sudden and serious developments in COVID infections here and the uncertainty of whether gatherings will be further… Read More Blame the delta variant
Oh Carl! I don’t know how many times I said these two words over my lifetime—way more than several hundred, maybe even thousands of times. I said “Oh, Carl!” mostly in moments of exasperation, or resignation, but sometimes even in times of joy and elation. Or even to get his attention— “Oh, Carl, can you… Read More Oh, Carl!
During this pandemic crisis, many artists and musicians have been hurting financially because nearly all in-person concerts have been cancelled. It’s not just this past spring where events have been cancelled, we are looking towards the fall and beyond with no “live” musical events. In fact, this past week, I received this notice from the… Read More A virtual season
Back row: James Gochenouer, Scott Fikse, Sarah Lambert Connolly, Keane Ishii, Dylan Bunten, Kawaiola Murray; Middle Row: Darel Stark, Karol Nowicki, Andrea Maciel, Georgine Stark, Naomi Castro, Katherine Crosier, Benjamin Leonid, Taylor Ishida, Megan Bledsoe Ward; Front Row: Ann Hansen, Maile Reeves Everybody looked happy! In the end, everything was a success at Early Music… Read More Everybody went home happy!
Tomorrow night’s Early Music Hawaii features music by Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), a musician whose chromatic style was not seen again until the 19th century — a musician ahead of his time. What he’s famous for, outside of the music, though, is the story about how he killed his wife and her lover — and got… Read More Scandalous murder
So observed Ian Capps at last night’s Early Music Hawaii concert, “Treasures of the French Baroque.” Here is the letter Ian wrote to last night’s performers: Congratulations, you did it again! Our faithful audience… was introduced to a completely new repertory and loved it. Not a soul left at the intermission, as far as I… Read More No one left at intermission!
Last Sunday morning I was in my Zürich hotel getting ready to go to the airport when I got a text message from United Airlines saying that my flight would be delayed by 85 minutes. That meant that I would have missed my connection in San Francisco, but luckily I was able to rebook a… Read More Treasures of the French Baroque
https://youtu.be/0YW-uv3Ibm8 Since I grew up without television, I had never watched the show, “Queen for a Day,” which began as a radio show in 1945 then ran on NBC Television from 1956-1960 and on ABC from 1960-1964. Every show began with the question, “Would YOU like to be Queen for a day?” A number of… Read More Queen for a Day