Congratulations to you and Jieun on a magnificent finale to your organ week! Not only was the music beautiful, it is amazing how the two of you can stay so perfectly in synch throughout long periods of complex music. (Ian Capps) Thank you for all your work preparing the concert last evening. I was struck with… Read More Zimbelcam?
In six days’ time, I will be playing the monthly Bach and Prayer service at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm. All the music I have chosen comes from Bach’s collection of extended chorale preludes, The Great Eighteen or Leipzig Chorales. You might remember that in 2013… Read More Throwback to 2013
Yesterday I received a phone call from Scott Fikse asking if I’d be available or interested in playing the February “Bach and Prayer” service. I really wasn’t sure what this service is all about, so this is the description I found on Facebook: Join us every 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm for Bach… Read More Got Bach?
FDR. JFK. MLK. We love reducing these people’s names down to three letters as evidenced by these representations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Here are some more: LBJ. RBG. AOC. I bet you got real excited when you saw the title of this blog post, though, eh? Your first… Read More AOC at LCH
If the late Carl Crosier would have come to the concert I went to tonight, he might have described it as “four German chocolate cakes and two triple fudge sundaes!”—all in one sitting! That is because the program was called “A Celebration of J. S. Bach,” and consisted of four Bach motets and two cello… Read More Four German chocolate cakes+
In the year 2000 when we performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, I likened it to climbing Mount Everest. With our upcoming performances of Bach’s Mass in B minor, we will have another Everest to scale. Today after church we had a Concert Committee meeting, mainly to update the members on where we are with this… Read More The ascent to Mount Everest
This Sunday, October 31st, is Reformation Day and it’s always a big deal in the Lutheran Church. This year, let’s just say that the music at the 10:30 service might be different from what you’d expect! I don’t know if I could even put a label on it—some people might call it “avant-garde;” certainly it’s… Read More Reformation Day 2010