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
Six of what? and twelve more? That’s six organ recitals today (plus a lecture on organ building in the Pioneer Valley), and twelve more recitals in the next two days at the Organ Historical Society Convention. I’m actually leaving the convention one day early so I’m missing out on Thursday’s six organ concerts! You must realize… Read More Six down, twelve to go
The usual scheme of concert programming is to schedule one concerto on a single program. But for the opening of the Boston 2014 American Guild of Organists, we heard FIVE organ concertos in one sitting, and all FIVE played stunningly by James David Christie with the Boston Landmark Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, conductor. The works were:… Read More Five concertos in one night!
Today at the Boston Early Music Festival I signed up to go to an organ mini-festival at Wellesley College. We have not gotten back to Newton Centre until after 11 pm for three nights in a row now so getting up at 6 am was a little like death warmed over. The bus left from… Read More Six concerts in one day!