I just finished sending the program off to the printers for this Saturday night’s Early Music Hawaii program at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. It’s a group called Ostraka, and they will be performing a program called “Leaving Parnassus: French Baroque refinement,” and will play music by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, Louis… Read More Don’t miss Ostraka
The emails have continued to pour in for the Early Music Hawaii concert on Friday night. When I was at the chamber music concert on Sunday afternoon, the people in front of me were talking about what a fantastic concert it was (and I was just eavesdropping!) That was a wonderful concert! Such great voices… Read More More kudos for ‘Oratorio’
is how one listener described Friday night’s Early Music Hawaii program, “Oratorio.” What a truly wonderful concert last night!!! One expects Georgine to outdo herself, and she did. But Naomi really “covered herself in glory!” (as the Romans used to say). Her tone and technique seem to have matured and acquired a level of professional… Read More A stunning concert
As we were driving home after last night’s rehearsal with the Early Music Hawaii Choir, Carl Crosier made this comment about soprano, Naomi Castro: She has just blossomed! (and he was not referring to all the leis that they were wearing in the picture to the left!) Naomi is singing the part of the Filia (Daughter) in the… Read More She has just blossomed!
That’s how theorboist John Lenti described his instrument with its long neck! This week we are hosting John and his wife Sarah while he is visiting Hawaii from Seattle to play the Early Music Hawaii concert this Friday night, September 27th at 7:30 pm at St. Theresa’s Co-Cathedral. The theorbo is somewhat of a curiosity… Read More A ficus tree
Last week was a week of calm for me since I wasn’t able to teach any organ lessons — the reason being was that we hosted organbuilder Hans-Ulrich Erbsloeh from Hamburg, Germany and his colleague, Bernharndt Becker, while they replaced the worn pulldowns on the pedals on the Beckerath organ. It turned out to be… Read More A week of calm before the storm